The vandalism was discovered Wednesday morning, police said. Officers cordoned off the area, and crews from the National Park Service (NPS) are working to remove the paint from the stone.

Howard University clocked in at #80 on the publication’s list of best national universities, marking the school’s highest place on the list to date.

Attorneys for the accused have said he thought the victim was a werewolf.

Sousa Middle School in Southeast D.C. will be closed again Tuesday as cleaning continues after Sunday’s vandalism.

With just over a month to go, D.C. leaders say they still don’t know many of the details about what or where the city’s Fourth of July events will be because they’re still waiting on information from the federal government.

Thousands of people who usually take Metro are facing the first workday of a whole new world: life without Metrorail south of Reagan National Airport.

The medical school that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attended has been unable to determine who was pictured in a racist photo appeared on a 1984 yearbook page.

A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a Silver Spring apartment complex that killed seven people, the NTSB said Tuesday.