CONCORD, N.H. — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home ...

FBI agent Eduardo Valdivia accused of sexually assaulting third woman in his tattoo studio. The witness, a sister of the dead child, said her father told her to lie to police in October and that ...

As Donald Trump has grown more vocal in his threats against a vulnerable District, D.C. officials have grown more muted, seeking to avoid a conflict. Fifteen percent of federal workers are based ...

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died just ...

Showers and storms should be out of here for the ball drop. Snow or a wintry mix is possible Sunday night into Monday. Bowser’s optimistic tenor appears part of a strategy to collaborate with ...

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Three congressmen came to George Washington University Hospital around 10:30 a.m. to visit Matt Mika, a lobbyist they said was wounded in Wednesday’s shooting. “Matt Mika, one of the guys who ...

As antiabortion activists expect President Trump to move forward on his promise to defund Planned Parenthood, a new poll out Friday suggests that 62 percent of Americans oppose cutting off ...

Kamala Harris, a newly elected Democratic senator from California, took the stage and gave a short but powerful and polished speech. Women’s issues are not a separate concern, she argued: The ...

In a fiery speech, the ever-provocative Madonna said she’d thought a lot about “blowing up the White House” since Donald Trump’s election, but instead will choose love. The Queen of Pop ...

Actress Ashley Judd read a poem by 19-year-old Nina Donovan from her home state of Tennessee. “I am a nasty woman,” the poem began. “Not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in Cheeto ...

New White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon on Friday afternoon said President Trump’s inaugural speech had echoes of another long-ago American populist. “It was an unvarnished ...