Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval Office: an identical ...
Wet times through the weekend will lead to cool down next week
Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will be around Friday morning. They move off to the south after 9am. Still hot Friday and more humid thanks to the rain; highs will ...
GOP, Secret Service clash as calls to up Trump’s protection face complications
The multilayered nature of presidential and candidate security is complicating calls for former President Trump to have the same level of protection as a sitting president, prompting a Republican ...
‘Water is flooding everywhere’ as torrential rains sweep through West and Central Africa
Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city’s main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam.
Seeking to counter China, US awards $3 billion for EV battery production in 14 states
The Biden administration is awarding over $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and ...
Dutch police seek witnesses to Rotterdam stabbing that left 1 dead and another seriously wounded
Dutch police appealed for witnesses Friday as they investigated a stabbing in which one man was killed and another seriously wounded in the port city of Rotterdam. A ...
The EU’s chief is trying to help Ukraine prepare for winter. Half its energy network is destroyed.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Ukraine on Friday focused on helping the country to repair and reconnect its war-damaged electricity grid and ...
Turkey wants to regulate Germany’s beloved döner kebab street food
Beef and chicken glisten as they rotate slowly on vertical spits before they are carved off in razor-thin strips. Two cooks slide from a sizzling griddle to a warm toaster in a ...
Doctors and first responders are among those who still use pagers
The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in ...
Protests ousted Sri Lanka’s last president. Ahead of new election, many are still waiting for change
Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country. As the ...
Thousands of exploding devices in Lebanon trigger a nation that has been on edge for years
Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon’s capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast ...
In-person voting for the US presidential contest is about to start as Election Day closes in
The Democratic and Republican national conventions are just a memory, the first and perhaps only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is ...