The Washington Football Team is getting closer to no longer being named The Washington Football Team.
Personal-finance website WalletHub came up with tons of interesting facts while researching America's most fun states in 2021, which was comprised using 26 key metrics (movie costs, accessibility of national parks, casinos per capita, etc.) to compare the 50 states.
Sarah Peterson and Roberta Peterson are a mother-daughter duo who were recently brought together under miraculous circumstances. In July 1966, Sarah Peterson was a sixteen-year-old girl who had just given birth to a baby girl named Roberta. Ostracized from her family, Sarah was forced to go it alone, barely making ends meet while living in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberal and conservative justices seemed split Wednesday on whether to grant a new sentencing hearing to Lee Boyd Malvo, one of two snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C., region in 2002 when he was a teenager. The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of activists blocked major intersections across the nation’s capital on Monday, demanding immediate government action on climate change. Under the banner of ShutDownDC, a broad coalition of activist groups sought to bring the morning traffic in Washington to a standstill. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested 26 people who were blocking the […]
Washington, D.C. has lost its only black-owned funeral parlor to gentrification, after 80 years in the district. The Hall Brothers Funeral Home only handled four funerals last year, a low caused by locals being driven out by gentrification, per NBC News. The parlor’s owner, 77-year-old Richard Ables, says of the neighborhood: “If we saw a white person, we’d […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t taking “no tanks” for an answer on the Fourth of July. He said Monday that a display of U.S. military tanks will be part of a special event he’s headlining July 4 in Washington — and an Associated Press photographer saw at least two M1A1 Abrams tanks and […]
Well , well, well. We haven’t heard from this guy in a while and he’s definitely a sight for sore eyes that have been forced to look at the orange disaster in the White House 24/7, it seems. Yes, Mr. No Drama Obama, we miss you madly, which is why we’re thrilled to bring you […]
On Wednesday, D.C. firefighters got to meet the baby they helped deliver in the shadow of the Washington Monument on January 18. Akela Crawford and the baby’s father Ron Payton were headed to the hospital, when finally she told her doctor on the phone, “I don’t think we’re gonna make it.” The couple pulled over, […]
Washington state has legalized marijuana and will be pardoning those convicted of a misdemeanor marijuana possession before it was legalized. Convictions will be removed from the individuals criminal history and will open opportunity for those individuals to get jobs, find housing and more. DL is in full support of this change especially because people are […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — White police officers in a Washington, D.C., suburb have used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Civil rights groups sued Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its […]
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is a busy woman: She is deftly balancing life as a high-profile elected leader, and, as a single mother, she is also taking charge of a new baby. Bowser, 46, is perhaps the only big-city mayor who has adopted a child as a single mom while still in office. She is […]
