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The House voted Thursday to condemn racism against Asian Americans tied to the coronavirus outbreak, approving a Democratic resolution on a mostly party-line vote. Republicans called the legislation an election-year effort to criticize President Donald Trump and “woke culture on steroids.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will remain in session until lawmakers deliver another round of COVID-19 relief

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a jab at President Donald Trump as she unveils a plan to expand the Obama-era health law

It’s a moment for the history books on Capitol Hill

In a sign of the times, the U.S. House of Representatives held a “pro forma” session Tuesday that lasted about three minutes. Some on the floor wore face masks and gloves.

The House has approved a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products

In a dramatic procession across the U.S. Capitol, Democratic House leaders marched the formal articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate late Wednesday, setting the stage for only the third trial to remove a president in American history.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced Wednesday that the House will vote Thursday on a war powers resolution to limit the Trump administration’s military actions against Iran. The announcement comes less than a day after Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi air bases housing U.S. forces in response to the U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian...

One day after its historic impeachment votes, the Democratic-led House gave President Donald Trump an overwhelming bipartisan victory Thursday on a renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. By a 385-41 vote, the House approved a bill that puts in place terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The legislation passed after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her colleagues won key...

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to remove a statue of a Confederate general near Judiciary Square.

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on a formal resolution condemning President Donald Trump’s weekend tweets aimed at four congresswomen of color that have been widely condemned as racist and “xenophobic,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday. Pelosi, who has said Trump’s campaign slogan truly means he wants to “make America white again,” wrote in a letter to...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam wasted little time getting to Virginia Beach after a gunman killed a dozen people in a city office building, the first major test of his leadership since a blackface scandal almost forced him from office four months ago.

VRE is now using a new safety system called Positive Train Control. Rail systems around the country have been told by the federal government to get this system up and running, and as Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss explains, it could be the difference if a dangerous scenario develops on the rails.

News4’s Pat Lawson Muse sits down with Marvin Jackson, who is directing a documentary called “Women of Color in STEM.” The film celebrates several heroes, including Dr. Gladys West, who is crediting with creating mathematical models that made GPS possible.

Six in 10 Americans say President Donald Trump has been untruthful about the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, while half of the country says the investigation has given them doubts about Trump’s presidency, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey, conducted a month after the results of November’s midterm elections, also...

Facing some of the steepest rents in the country, how do members of Congress make it work? Here are a few past examples.

A Maryland program overseeing bodies given to science mishandled the remains of several of its donors, with problems including poor tracking of bodies, a donor’s cremains being mistakenly buried in a state cemetery and at least one known allegation of an employee intentionally sending the wrong remains to a donor’s family, a News4 I-Team investigation found.

According to the indictment, Juan McCullum offered to help repair the Congress member’s iPhone in March 2016 by taking the device to a local Apple store. The iPhone had private, nude photos and videos.