Two men who were staying at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Bethesda fled onto a ledge after an armed man came into their ninth-floor room. They were subsequently rescued. The incident happened early on Thursday, with Montgomery County Fire and Rescue responding to the scene to get the stranded men off the ninth-story ledge at […]
Autonomous vehicle company Waymo and the city of Santa Monica, California, have each filed suit against the other over the overnight use of charging stations for Waymo cars. Santa Monica has asked a judge to order Waymo not to use charging stations, operated by the company Voltera, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time […]
Mexico on Saturday condemned U.S. military action in Venezuela and the capture of that country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, warning that the operation “seriously jeopardizes regional stability.” In a lengthy statement, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the U.S. strikes in Caracas violated Article 2 of the U.N. charter. “Based on its foreign policy principles […]
TLDR: President Trump signed 26 executive orders on Inauguration Day and oversaw the departure of 200,000+ federal employees in his first year back in office. Despite the frenetic pace, a former Republican White House official says actual policy changes have been limited: “Spending remains the same. Taxes remain the same.” Trump’s job approval has fallen […]
NAIROBI, Kenya — A multi-story building under construction in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, collapsed Friday, leaving at least four people believed trapped. Rescue workers are digging through the rubble. The building was in an area of Nairobi known as South C, according to the Kenya Red Cross, which said in a statement that a multi-agency […]
Russian authorities said Friday that the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike they said struck a café in a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s Kherson region rose to 27 people. Kyiv denied attacking civilian targets. Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman of Russia’s main criminal investigation agency, the Investigative Committee, said in a statement that a Ukrainian drone […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, the South American country’s President Nicolás Maduro said in a pretaped interview aired Thursday on state television, but he declined to comment on a CIA-led strike last week at a Venezuelan docking area that the Trump administration […]
President Trump railed against the fraud schemes in Minnesota involving Somali residents during his New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago. “Can you imagine they stole $18 billion?” Mr. Trump said. “That’s just what we’re learning about. That’s peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and, sadly, New York is worse.” “We’re going to get […]
NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City just after midnight Thursday, taking the oath of office at an historic, decommissioned subway station in Manhattan. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in as the first Muslim leader of America’s biggest city, placing his hand on a Quran as he took his oath. “This […]
The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command, which oversees South America, did not reveal where the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday occurred. Previous attacks have been in the Caribbean Sea and […]
