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How Alexandria hopes to transform Duke Street into a more unified corridor – WTOP News (opens the original)
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Urban planners in the City of Alexandria are looking for ways to make Duke Street friendlier to the people who live and work there along the thoroughfare — or are just passing through. The congested 4-mile stretch between the future Landmark/West End development, just off Interstate 395 and Alexandria Union Station is a mélange of architecture and purposes, with businesses ranging from strip malls to freestanding industrial companies, apartment complexes and the always-crowded entrance and exits
Lafayette Square partially reopens as White House security work continues – WTOP News (opens the original)
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Lafayette Square, the public park across from the White House, partially reopened in D.C. Tuesday morning. For the past eight months, temporary steel fencing along H Street NW completely blocked access to the park, which for more than a century has been a frequent site of White House protests. In January 2026, the National Park Service issued a Record of Determination calling for a temporary partial closure of Lafayette Square for a restoration project. By Tuesday before daybreak, fencing had be
DC punk rock returns to the National Mall with benefit aiming to channel punk’s ‘galvanizing force’ – WTOP News (opens the original)
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More than 30 years after Fugazi’s legendary performances at the base of the Washington Monument, a new generation of young punks is staging a show at the National Mall’s Sylvan Theater this weekend. Like the Fugazi shows in 1993 and 1995, Saturday’s Ward 1 Mutual Aid Benefit Show is for a local cause. “I’m a little young. I wasn’t even alive when that happened, but I am a huge fan of the history of D.C. punk music,” Caroline Liaupsin, a co-organizer of the event, told WTOP. “To be a punk in D.C.
Jury enters second day of deliberation in DC council member’s federal bribery trial – WTOP News (opens the original)
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The jury in the federal bribery trial of Ward 8 D.C. Council member Trayon White is in its second day of deliberations. On Wednesday, about four hours into deliberations, jurors sent Judge Rudolph Contreras a question about whether prosecutors had to show that one of businessperson Allieu Kamara’s companies actually received a contractual benefit for White’s acceptance of money to be considered bribery. Both sides told the judge the answer was no, and Contreras agreed, sending jurors back to the
Kennedy Center extends closure for another week, at least – WTOP News (opens the original)
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The executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said the venue will remain closed for at least another week in D.C., and he’ll re-evaluate week-by-week when the shutdown might end. In a Wednesday court filing, Matt Floca cited several hazards inside the building, including aging and falling plaster, as well as outdated electrical systems. Floca said recent inspections revealed deterioration in the underside of the building’s overhanging roof, which could endanger peo
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