Washington DC News

Major League Soccer players overwhelmingly voted to strike if a new collective bargaining agreement isn't reached with the league by the season opener on March 25, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia posted net gains in employment in January, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, providing further evidence that the economy is slowly gaining momentum.

A helicopter from a suburban Washington police department made an emergency landing near a District of Columbia school, forcing its evacuation.

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard was officiating five same-sex marriages in one day, despite harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church and a campaign against the measure launched by President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party.

In January, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 31 states and the District of Columbia, decreased in 18 states, and remained unchanged in 1 state.

There are many financial benefits that pertain to married and common-law couples.

TALLAHASSEE - Here's a new reason to keep your thumbs on the wheel and your eyes on the road: Action to outlaw texting while driving is off to a speedy start in the Legislature.

Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend hold hands as Rev. David North speaks during their wedding on the first day same-sex couples are legal to wed under a new law March 9, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Financially battered states get about 20 percent of their money from federal funds, so they're paying special attention to the Census this month.

Who would have thought you could contract carpal tunnel syndrome at the oral surgeon's office? After writing my initials and signing my name on roughly 217 consent forms, I was ready for an ice pack and a wrist wrap.

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform - and more rigorous - standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released.

Toyota says it will expand a recall announced last year to fix Tundra pickup trucks with frames that could rust.

Wisconsin is not among the finalists for more than $4.5 billion in federal education money under the Race to the Top program.

One bride wore a knee-length lace dress and pearls. The other bride wore a yellow shirt and white suit.

For some, celebrating St. Patrick's Day isn't the same without chomping on a cigar.

The U. S. Department of Education announced today the first-fun finalists for the Federal Race to the Top competition.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt such statements.

It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does.

The District of Columbia will become the first city in the United States to distribute female condoms free, part of a project that will make 500,000 of them available in beauty salons, convenience stores and high schools in parts of the city with high HIV rates.

The five others are New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont.