In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax heads to downtown D.C. to learn the story behind the original U.S. Capitol pillars.

One was found perched on a marble column in Statuary Hall, another was seen propped up on a pillar directly outside doors to ...

The rally marked the end of Public Schools Week, an annual recognition of public schools and a time advocates use to call for ...

Protesters in the Iowa Capitol Thursday called the bill "heartbreaking" and said it feels like a betrayal of the state's ...

Iowa House and Senate lawmakers are likely to vote Thursday on a bill to remove gender identity from the Iowa law that ...

Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers prepared for final votes on a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Amid a heavy police presence and dozens of vocal protesters, Iowa lawmakers were expected to vote Thursday on an unprecedented bill stripping the state civil rights code of ...

Demonstrators staged a “die-in” at a congressional office building to protest cuts to global AIDS relief and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday,6.In footage posted to ...

A large crowd, many clad in white coats and scrubs, gathered Friday, filling about half the fourth-floor Capitol rotunda. Its ...

Students and educators protesting a bill that would repeal gun-free zones like government meetings and schools took to the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Several protesters were arrested Monday at the Iowa state Capitol, where shouts of “trans rights are human rights” reverberated throughout the building as Republican lawmakers ...