On March 29, 1961, the 23rd Amendment was ratified, granting the District of Columbia electors in the Electoral College. For the first time in the nation’s history, D.C. residents had some sort ...

How does New Columbia sound? That may be the new name for the District of Columbia if the city wins its bid to become the 51st state, a statehood commission decided on Monday.

District of Columbia statehood has long been out of reach. Proponents hope Democratic control of the federal government and the security issues raised over the past week could change that.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat representing the district as a non-voting member of Congress, drafted a bill which would turn the city into the 51st State of Washington, Douglass ...

District of Columbia voters passed the referendum Tuesday with nearly 80 percent in favor. Congress, which will ultimately decide the fate of the federal district, is not expected to approve it.

51st State. Special | 27m 6s Video has Closed Captions | CC. ... The District of Columbia has spent 206 years yielding To people who would deny them the vote, I yield you no ground.

Updated at 2:59 p.m. ET. House Democrats approved a bill Friday afternoon to make the District of Columbia the nation's 51st state.. The vote was 232-180 largely along party and the legislation is ...

WASHINGTON — With the nation’s attention focused on New Hampshire, officials in Washington, D.C., are headed to the Granite State to publicize their bid to make the District of Columbia the ...

The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that ...

President Trump said the federal government should control the nation’s capital. Democrats and most local residents have long argued that Washington, D.C., should be a state.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser went to the spot where President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and released a draft constitution for a 51st U.S. state on Friday. The event was ...

Democrats controlling the House have slated a vote next week to make the District of Columbia the 51st state. It's an issue that they say has become far more important in the aftermath of protests ...