Topic - D.C. Council

The Council of the District of Columbia (or simply D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the district is not part of any U.S. state and is overseen directly by the federal government. - Source: Wikipedia

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District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks at a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry) ** FILE **

D.C. Council gives initial approval to permanent curfew, but does not extend emergency powers

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, left, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson talk during a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

D.C. Council postpones vote on juvenile curfew, allowing measure to expire

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An Axon body camera is worn by MSGT Matt Gilmore who is one of the officers using Axon's Draft One AI software at OKCPD headquarters on Friday, May 31, 2024 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford, File)

Mayor Bowser approves bill to release police body cam footage when federal officers use force

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A mobile billboard truck displays a message in support of former District of Columbia Councilman Trayon White outside the Anacostia Neighborhood Library during the Ward 8 special election, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

D.C. Council member Trayon White bribery trial pushed back until September

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Pest Control Officers Gregory Cornes, center, and Andre Pitman, right, both from the D.C. Department of Health's Rodent Control Division, apply poison into rat burrows, found in the alley behind the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2019. Cornes will pump poison into the burrows and this powder will stick to the paws and fur, when the rats groom themselves, they unwittingly ingest it and die.The nation’s capital is facing a spiraling rat infestation, fueled by mild winters and a human population boom. Washington’s government is struggling to keep pace (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

America’s rat capital fights back with new tracking technology

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Then-Ward 5 Council member Kenyan McDuffie on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, at Langston Golf Course in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Kenyan McDuffie to resign from D.C. Council, setting up potential bid for mayor

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Ticket price controls would hurt Washington

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D.C. Council member Brianne Nadeau announces she will not seek a fourth term

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A "For Rent" sign displays outside apartment building in Skokie, Ill., Sunday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Washington Times Weekly: Reconsidering pandemic policies

RFK Stadium, the onetime home of the Washington Commanders football team, the Washington Senators and Washington Nationals baseball teams, and the D.C. United soccer team is being torn down, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

D.C. Council approves Commanders’ new stadium, sends legislation to mayor

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing about congressional oversight of D.C. on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

D.C. Council rolls back some pandemic eviction protections

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A rental sign is posted in front of an apartment complex Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Phoenix. Housing advocacy groups have joined lawmakers lobbying Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to extend his coronavirus-era moratorium on evictions when it expires, when the 120-day order ending July 22 was supposed to ensure people would not lose their homes if they fell ill to COVID-19 or lost jobs in the pandemic's economic fallout. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Landlords estimate over $1 billion in rent losses as D.C. Council reconsiders pandemic policies

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Metropolitan Police Department's MP DC decal emblem badge shown on a police vehicle. File photo credit: DCStockPhotography via Shutterstock.

Big pay raise for D.C. cops marks further shift away from ‘defund the police’ movement

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Washington Commanders controlling owner Josh Harris, from left, holds up a signed helmet along with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after an announcement about a new home for the NFL football team on the site of the old RFK Stadium, Monday, April 28, 2025, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Commanders, Bowser take victory lap after D.C Council approves RFK Stadium plan

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

RFK Stadium is visible from Air Force One as it takes off from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Nov. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

D.C. Council approves $3.7 billion RFK Campus proposal for new Commanders stadium

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times