WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia looks very different today than it did two years ago, when Mayor Muriel Bowser last sat before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

There were no National Guardsmen deployed around the city, patrolling its landmarks and picking up trash in its parks, when she testified in May 2023. And the...Read more

BOSTON — An attorney for Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney says that prosecutors are guilty of “doctoring evidence” against the Karen Read-focused blogger when securing indictments against him for witness intimidation.

“Mr. Kearney has been prejudiced by the nondisclosure and/or destruction of exculpatory and discoverable evidence,” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania did not have any interest in hosting former President Joe Biden’s post-presidential center as the 46th president had previously claimed, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Earlier this month, Biden embarked on establishing his presidential library in his home state of Delaware, ending ...Read more

A new poll from Christopher Newport University shows Democrat Abigail Spanberger leading Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears 52% to 40% among likely voters in the Virginia governor’s race. Of the 808 respondents, who were surveyed between Sept. 8 and 14, 8% said they were undecided.

“There’s still certainly some room for movement,” ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-selected vaccine advisers voted to change the way immunizations are given to millions of U.S. children each year, recommending a tweak to the standard schedule that cast a large shadow over the safety of the shots.

Members of the influential U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel said Merck & Co.’...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Thursday continued to track Tropical Storm Gabrielle while also eyeing a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa that could become the season’s next named storm.

As of the NHC’s 5 p.m. EDT advisory on Gabrielle, the system had 50 mph sustained winds located about 700 miles east-northeast of the ...Read more

DENVER — An equipment issue at a Federal Aviation Administration radar center near Denver International Airport delayed hundreds of flights on Thursday.

Flights arriving Thursday morning and afternoon at DIA were delayed by an average of 30 minutes, and flights trying to depart the airport were delayed by an average of 45 minutes, according ...Read more

Marine One made an emergency landing Thursday while bringing President Trump and the first lady to England’s Stansted Airport for their return trip to the U.S.

The helicopter landed safely in an airfield where another chopper picked up its passengers and delivered them to their destination. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed ...Read more

DENVER — Search and rescue crews operating in the Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado on Thursday found the bodies of two missing elk hunters.

The hunters, 25-year-old Andrew Porter of Asheville, North Carolina, and 25-year-old Ian Stasko of Salt Lake City, were found dead by Colorado search and rescue crews, according to an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that permanently extending premium health subsidies would increase the number of insured people 3.8 million by 2035 while also increasing the deficit by $349.8 billion over 10 years.

The analysis was requested by Democrats who are looking to avoid the year-end expiration of ...Read more

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and more than a dozen other local elected officials were arrested Thursday afternoon after demanding to oversee a controversial detention center at Immigration Court in downtown Manhattan.

The leaders were zip-tied and detained after demanding access to the 10th-floor holding cells that have become an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mystery deepened this week surrounding the case of a girl whose decomposing body was found in an abandoned Tesla registered to singer D4vd.

The discovery made national headlines earlier this month. On Wednesday, authorities identified the girl as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, an Inland Empire resident who was reported missing ...Read more

SEATTLE — A Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Summit Lake in Thurston County with four service members aboard on Wednesday night, U.S. Army said in a statement.

Their conditions are unknown as of Thursday afternoon. The service members were assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

The MH-60 Black Hawk was involved in an �...Read more

NEW YORK — Yeshiva reformers are taking Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York legislative leaders to court over a contentious deal that waters down state oversight of ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools, the reformers’ attorney announced Thursday.

The amendment, wedged into the state budget during a final stretch of negotiations, put the kibosh on a New...Read more

The call Friday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping promises to determine the fate of TikTok — and potentially ease trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

Trump and Xi are due to speak at 9 a.m. Washington time, or 9 p.m. in Beijing about a framework agreement unveiled this week to shift ...Read more

France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, plans to present photographic and scientific evidence to a U.S. court in a bid to battle conspiracies suggesting she was actually born male.

The documentation is meant to bolster a defamation lawsuit filed by both Brigitte and her husband, French President Emmanuel Macron, against right-wing podcaster ...Read more

ATLANTA — Emory University is significantly expanding its financial aid program, making it one of the most generous in the country.

Starting next academic year, the school will be tuition-free for undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000, a move that could help hundreds of students.

In the Wednesday announcement, Interim ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested that U.S. broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if their content is overwhelmingly critical of him, and defended ABC’s decision to suspend late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely over remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“That’s ...Read more