The second week of the World Cup saw various upsets, the rise of tournament giants, and a record that gives Cristiano Ronaldo fans something to keep arguing about.

Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States, will be observed on Friday, June 19. The holiday marks June 19, 1865, when Union ...

At the end of the 2019 regular season, the top four records in Major League Baseball should not have been a surprise: the Astros, Dodgers, Yankees, and Twins all put up 100+ win seasons, with the ...

In January 2025, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) released data indicating a dramatic drop in violent crime rates in D.C. in 2024. This comes after the city experienced its deadliest year in ...

Georgetown University’s campus in Qatar is one of several universities that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is threatening to target if the U.S. does not condemn recent U.S. and ...

“What is the use of telling stories that aren’t even true?” asked actress Surasree Das, as she plays Haroun in Salman Rushdie’s book Haroun and the Sea of Stories. She calls out to her father, played ...

Remy Peritz was an avid reader of DCist, and would often discuss their content with her friends. “I really liked their local focus,” Peritz said. “DCist was a thing that everybody read, so I could ...

The Hunger Games is experiencing a pop culture revival. Fifteen years after the publication of the first book and eleven years after the first movie’s premiere, the young adult (YA) staple is enjoying ...

So you’ve decided to go to the movies. (You probably haven’t, not when your streaming service of choice is readily available on your laptop, but for the sake of this thought experiment, let’s say you ...

Nearly 45 years after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) welcomed riders aboard its first trains, plans are now being discussed to bring a long-neglected region into the mix: ...

According to reporting by The GW Hatchet, protesters remained in their tents until they were disturbed at approximately 5:20 a.m. by the appearance of roughly seven officers in the southeast corner of ...

In the fiscal year of 2024, Georgetown was allotted $195 million in federal research support, which came predominantly from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control. As ...