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From 2016 to 2019, millions flowed into communities that have not qualified for the HUBZone program since 2013.

Traffic and parking tickets are issued more often in Black neighborhoods than White ones, according to data from D.C. analyzed by The Washington Post. Advocates for changing the District’s system of fees and fines say the disparities show that the city’s ticketing and traffic enforcement policies not only target Black drivers but criminalize poverty.

As businesses struggled and closed in downtown D.C., more popped up in the cheaper, larger spaces of the suburbs.

The “Great Resignation” and the gig economy are helping fuel a rise in new businesses in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, data and experts say.

Parents share why they send their children to private or religious schools, a right protected by Pierce v. Society of Sisters.

The shootings in Lewiston made 2023 one of the deadliest years for mass killings with a gun since 2006, according to data analyzed by The Washington Post.

School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds.

New Orleans police officer Rodney Vicknair sexually abused a teen girl he met on the job. He is one of hundreds of officers arrested for child sexual abuse.

The Washington Post has spent more than a year examining police officers accused of sexually abusing kids. Here’s how we reported the Abused by the Badge series.

“They were good ones, people that you could trust, people that you could count on,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said at a news conference.