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Byline: Jason Samenow Before the coldest air of the season arrives on Inauguration Day, a fresh coating of snow is possible in the D.C. area. A storm system may develop [...]

Byline: Fritz Hahn This Inauguration Day will look very different from the last, when pandemic closures canceled public events like the parade and balls, and restaurants and breweries offered specials [...]

Byline: Perry Stein Donald Trump's legal team has requested a 30-day extension to respond to the government's appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon's dismissal of his classified-documents case, [...]

Byline: Robin Givhan The two ensembles installed in the first ladies exhibition Wednesday afternoon, one in shimmering ocean blue and the other in ethereal ivory, reflect an American history that's [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. - and his mittens - were here. They were there. They were everywhere. The senator was a late invite to 'The Last Supper,' [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins and Paulina Firozi WASHINGTON - Eugene Goodman, the U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced down a mob of pro-Trump rioters during the attack on the U.S. Capitol [...]

Byline: Emily Davies and Justin Jouvenal The entire National Mall will be closed for Inauguration Day, only accessible by media and security personnel, according to two people familiar with the [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell What unfolded Jan. 20 in the nation's capital was a day of reckoning for many followers of the QAnon extremist ideology -- but not the one they [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Peiser From fervently posting on Facebook to setting up Halloween displays falsely accusing the Biden family of running a crime empire, Jennifer Susan Wright was known around her [...]

Byline: Ellen McCarthy;Jada Yuan Before Jill Biden had so much as slipped out of her cerulean Inauguration Day coat, the new first lady's East Wing was operating at full tilt. [...]

Byline: Jura Koncius Do those gold silk curtains in President Biden's Oval Office look familiar? They should. They were designed for Bill Clinton's Oval Office in 1993 by Little Rock [...]

Byline: Marc Fisher;Annie Gowen;Christine Spolar;Brittany Shammas The other day, Stu Ross, a retired elementary school teacher, threw his neighbor out of his townhouse in Harrisburg, Pa. The guy had said [...]

Byline: Adriana Usero 'Someone in Biden's earpiece told him to salute the marines, and Biden just repeated the words 'salute the marines,' because he is so used to just repeating [...]

Byline: Sydney Trent From the moment in June 2015 when Donald Trump glided down a golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy, James Hudson saw what was [...]

Byline: Petula Dvorak President Donald Trump was good for business -- Mark Gothard had to admit that. 'Yeah, Trump people bought way more from me than the Democrats did,' said [...]

Byline: Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck It's not only Inauguration Day: Today also marks a full year since the first known coronavirus patient in the United States was admitted [...]

Byline: Dan Stillman Today's daily digit A somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. 4/10: One of the colder days we've had this [...]

'Fragile' is not a word we normally associate with America. But fragile is where we are as we wake up on Inauguration Day. Fragile like an egg: our economy, our [...]

Byline: Matt Rogers Today's daily digit A somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. 8/10: Slightly warmer, more sunshine and less wind all [...]

Byline: Brian Jackson Today's daily digit A somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. 7/10: Highs well into the 40s to near 50 [...]

Byline: Emily Davies Battered by months of protests and a violent insurrection at the Capitol last week, the District is making urgent pleas to the federal government and American people [...]

'Will he be there?' 'Should he be there?' 'He,' in this case, is President Trump. 'There' is the U.S. Capitol, where at noon on Jan. 20, Joe Biden will take [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford Twitter and Facebook said they will hand over the digital keys to @POTUS, as well as other official social media accounts, to Joe Biden on Inauguration Day, [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb President Trump announced two sweeping drug pricing rules Friday that his administration is rushing to finalize before Inauguration Day to make good on his long-standing 2016 campaign [...]

Byline: Richard Danzig;James Lawler;Thomas P. Bossert The last days have brought some good news in the United States' fight against the coronavirus. President-elect Joe Biden is engaging experts likely to [...]

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer President Herbert Hoover had just lost the 1932 election by a landslide to Franklin D. Roosevelt. But during a testy transition, Hoover kept trying to pressure [...]

Byline: Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck The Trump administration is racing to sell off the right to drill deep in the Alaskan Arctic -- to protect against the possibility that [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander More than two years after the mass arrest of protesters at President Trump's inauguration, two federal prosecutors walked into a D.C. courtroom earlier this month in [...]

Byline: Ellie Silverman Hundreds of people, wearing all black and hiding their faces, moved through more than 16 blocks of downtown Washington on Inauguration Day. Some carried hammers, crowbars and [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander WASHINGTON - The first six people to face trial in Inauguration Day protests that turned destructive were acquitted of all charges, a victory for not only [...]

Byline: Michael Kranish;Tom Hamburger An official with a company that former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn advised on a proposal to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann D.C. police were overwhelmed by violent demonstrators on the day President Trump was inaugurated, and some officers indiscriminately fired pepper spray and other nonlethal munitions and arrested [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander Federal prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests in the nation's capital, bringing to a close a [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Amid the glitz of President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president [...]

Byline: David Weigel WASHINGTON - Richard Spencer, who emerged in 2016 as a leader of the pro-white 'alt-right' movement, was assaulted three times during interviews after President Donald Trump's inauguration [...]

Byline: Marylou Tousignant James Madison was about to be sworn in as our fourth president in 1809. He asked his friend, then-President Thomas Jefferson, to ride with him to the [...]

Byline: Helena Andrews-Dyer and Emily Heil President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter-issued command to folks celebrating his swearing-in later this week: 'Have fun!' One way citizens might answer his call to action [...]

Byline: Jessica Stahl On Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States and delivered his inauguration address at the Capitol, laying out [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander Friends and employers of six people accused of rioting on the day of President Trump's inauguration took the witness stand Tuesday to portray the defendants as [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow Federal prosecutors in Washington appear willing to limit the scope of search warrants for the Facebook accounts of local activists connected to protests during President Trump's [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander A D.C. Superior Court judge has sided with the California Internet company that argued that the government made an overly broad request for information about users [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang On Inauguration Day, in one of his final acts as president, Barack Obama left a letter to Donald Trump, welcoming him to the White House and [...]

Byline: Perry Stein Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to the nation's capital last month for the inauguration and the Women's March on Washington. In the weeks since they've left, [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander More people may be arrested in connection with violent Inauguration Day protests as authorities sort through evidence of the rioting that left six police officers injured [...]

Byline: Martin Weil Great historical occasions such as Inauguration Day are formed by thousands of small events that may take years to learn about and to place in historical perspective. [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang If there is one fact about crowd size over the weekend that everyone can agree on, it's that an inordinate amount of time has been spent [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander Several Washington law groups have joined to offer free legal assistance to individuals who may be arrested during the Inauguration Friday or the Women's March on [...]

Byline: Helena Andrews-Dyer;Emily Heil President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter-issued command to folks celebrating his swearing-in later this week: 'Have fun!' One way citizens might answer his call to action is by [...]

Byline: Max Stier Dear presidential candidates: A little over a year from now, one of you will take the oath of office. Before Inauguration Day is over, the unexpected could [...]