A man looking for a dropped cellphone ended up in a stinky situation, tumbling into a building's trash chute where he had to be rescued. Washington, D.C., Fire Spokesman Vito Maggiolo says the man was throwing out trash at an apartment building when he thought ...
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday said he had received "verbal" approval to start building a high-speed underground transport system linking New York and Washington that could cut travel time between the cities to about half an hour. Musk, the chief executive of electric car ...
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said. His wounds were not believed to be life-threatening. Alexandria police said a suspect in the shooting was in custody. A congressional aide said Scalise was in ...
President Donald Trump's continued financial stake in his global business empire violates the U.S. Constitution's limits on profiting from his office, Maryland and the District of Columbia said in a federal lawsuit. Their complaint, filed Monday in Greenbelt, Maryland, says Trump is violating two provisions ...
Police in the U.S. capital on Thursday were investigating the discovery of a noose in an exhibit on racial segregation at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The grim find on Wednesday of the looped rope — seen as a symbol of ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to press for greater cooperation to contain North Korea's nuclear and missile threat at a regional security forum in Singapore later this week, where for years Washington has sought to spotlight China's expansion in the strategic South ...
Tens of thousands of motorcyclists rumbled through the heart of Washington on Sunday in an annual Rolling Thunder tribute to U.S. military veterans and war dead. The cyclists came from across the country, many carrying or wearing the stars-and-stripes of the American flag, as they ...
The U.S. Senate majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, said on Wednesday he did not support any additional investigation into whether Russia influenced the 2016 U.S. election, saying as he opened the Senate that it would "impede" probes already under way. But the chamber's Democratic minority ...
A portion of a tunnel containing buried rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility in a remote area of Washington state, forcing an evacuation of some workers at the site that made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades ...
President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to China promised on Tuesday to take a firm line with Beijing on issues from North Korea to trade disputes and human rights, and seemed poised for an easy confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said ...
When the police department in Washington decided to use social media to spread the word about teens missing in the city, they never imagined the move would spark a wild rumor, fanned by racial tensions. Officers posted a string of missing person notices on Twitter ...
The opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival was held in Washington on Friday to celebrate the iconic pale pink flowers brought to the Tidal Basin as a gift from Japan. "The National Cherry Blossom Festival is the biggest celebration of Japan-U.S. friendship in ...
