Topic: muriel bowser

It's graduation season. Students across the country (like these students at USC) celebrate their achievements and listen to words of inspiration by noteworthy speakers. Sometimes, the speakers aren't exactly "inspirational." (Jason Armond / Getty Images)

2026 graduates push back on controversy

CK Smith
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, flanked by D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, speaks at a press conference on Aug. 15, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

DC needs someone to fight the House GOP

Jason Kyle Howard
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (R), joined by Chief of Police at the Metropolitan Police Department Pamela Smith, speaks at a press conference after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department at the Wilson Building on August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump targets cities led by Black women

Amanda Becker, Barbara Rodriguez - The 19th
Pam Bondi speaks after being sworn in as US Attorney General in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

DC sues over Bondi's "hostile takeover"

Blaise Malley
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hogan: Feds denied request to send Guard

Igor Derysh
Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cuomo: Trump defunding NYC is "illegal"

Igor Derysh
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL (ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rubio blows his defense of Trump's gas

Roger Sollenberger
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Trump loses his precious military parade

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Kena Betancur)

Can public funding save democracy?

Matthew Sheffield
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Legalized

Luke Brinker
In this Sept. 18, 2012, file photo a caregiver picks out a marijuana bud for a patient at a marijuana dispensary in Denver. (AP/Ed Andrieski)

"You can go to prison"

Joanna Rothkopf