News features from the Washington, DC Metro Area.

Join Kojo and resident analyst Tom Sherwood on Fridays at noon for our weekly review of the politics, policies and personalities in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Each week Kojo and Tom help ...

Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live long...

“WTOP’s American Nightmare Series” is a podcast covering true crime stories in the Washington D.C. region.  Season 3, "Unknown Subject": For 9 years, he terrorized women across the DC region. Breaking into ho...

From iHeartRadio and TenderfootTV, ‘Monster: DC Sniper’ reinvestigates the beltway sniper attacks. This true crime podcast places the listener in Montgomery County, Maryland on October 2nd, 2002 when an unident...

Dish City explores the iconic foods of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia to understand local history and how we live today. Join hosts Patrick Fort and Ruth Tam as they learn the origins of Old Bay in Maryland, expl...

2000 DC is a satirical sitcom podcast. Follow Alex and Dimitri as they move into Washington DC and face issues of the modern world. #2kDC

POLITICO takes you behind the scenes with Washington's power players to uncover what's really driving politics and policy in the nation’s capital.

The Kojo Nnamdi Show is a daily talk show — a meeting space for curious Washingtonians to make sense of the communities where they live and work. We'll introduce you to the people shaping the present and future...

What do you wonder about the Washington region and the people who call it home? As part of What's With Washington, you submit the questions that inform the stories that WAMU reporters go out and answer.

With more than 4,000 Afghans resettled in northern Virginia, this organization says it's helped more than 400 people file their applications for asylum.

Incumbent Marc Elrich (D) appears to have won the Democratic primary for Montgomery County Executive. But the Montgomery County Board discovered more than 100 uncounted ballots, which could change the results. ...

Montgomery County Election officials found 102 unopened ballots just hours before the election was scheduled to be certified.

Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.

D.C. officials are in the final stretch of a summer-long push to get shots to roughly a quarter of District students who are missing routine vaccines.

Maryland Matters' Bruce DePuyt explains the rifts in Maryland's Republican party. In Montgomery County, Natali Fani-González is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for the newly created District 6 sea...

Climate change is making flooding worse in D.C., but the city's unique history as the nation's capital has built in some protection.

From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.

WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi discusses some of the week's top regional stories.

The Politics Hour: July 29, 2022