Some of the most popular tourist spots in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have been closed to address the coronavirus pandemic. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

As the coronavirus continues its spread in the U.S., some of D.C.’s most popular attractions are leaving nothing to chance. Thousands of people pass through the Smithsonian museums every day, and that means thousands of chances to transmit germs. News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald has more on the Smithsonian’s effort to keep things clean.

The Smithsonian’s Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture are memorializing NBA legend Kobe Bryant. Mark Segraves reports.

Some popular sites won’t reopen immediately after a deal was reached Friday to end the longest shutdown in American history.

The driver who killed a Smithsonian employee who was riding his bike to work in September will serve 18 months in prison.

The suspect in a hit-and-run accident that killed a popular Smithsonian employee was sentenced to 18 months in prison. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A rare Bible used to justify slavery, one of only three known copies, is now on display in D.C.

Such a quintessentially American role, some said, should have gone to an African American actress. Erivo, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants to England, was born in London and currently lives in New York.

British actress Cynthia Erivo is relatively small in stature. In person, she is earnest and genial. In performance, the 32-year-old can appear achingly vulnerable. And if you’re not paying attention, she will bowl you over. Now, after glimpses of her on-screen power last year in Drew Goddard’s “Bad Times at the El Royale” and Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” Erivo gives her...

Rogue the lesser kudu gave birth to a healthy male calf at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Oct. 14.

The National Zoo panda will leave D.C. in November.

A sculpture of a black Jesus and 12 apostles was uncovered in Northwest D.C. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has broken ground on a memorial to honor Native American veterans.

A new memorial on the National Mall will honor Native American veterans. It’s designed by an acclaimed artist of Cheyenne and Arapaho descent. He’s also a marine who served in the Vietnam War. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Hard as it may be to believe, “Harriet” is the first feature film about Harriet Tubman. Kasi Lemmons’ movie about the Underground Railroad leader premiered Tuesday night at the Toronto International Film Festival where festival director Cameron Bailey, introducing the film, noted the cinematic injustice of Tubman only now making it to the big screen.

Smithsonian’s curator of parasitic worms and researchers from Canada and Mexico discovered the first new medicinal leech species in North America in decades — in southern Maryland.

Smithsonian’s curator of parasitic worms and researchers from Canada and Mexico discovered the first new medicinal leech species in North America in decades — in Southern Maryland.