Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who won sexual abuse and defamation lawsuits for the writer E. Jean Carroll, is also representing the transit agency fighting to keep congestion pricing.

Early this morning, Senate Republicans passed their $340 billion budget framework along a mostly party-line vote, 52-48.

In the first soap opera since “Generations” to feature a predominantly African-American cast, Tamara Tunie plays the matriarch of a family living in a gated community just outside Washington.