He went viral after signing with the Nats. Now he’s a star for the Savannah Bananas.: RobertAnthony Cruz will make his Nats Park debut on Saturday, when the exhibition barnstorming team visits Washington.
Video of Fetterman crash aftermath released by Maryland police: Maryland State Police officers who responded to a car crash involving Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) discussed how the lawmaker was speeding when he collided with another vehicle, according to body-camera footage.
Opinion Are we really going to give Trump a pass? C’mon, man.: The national discussion needs to shift back to where it should be: on Trump’s fitness for office.
Opinion The real reason the frenzy over Biden is so unsettling: The herd-like reversal of certain institutions on Biden’s abilities reflects a loss of political freedom. - "This is a fight over power more than values, and it’s driven by fear more than reason, on both sides. Part of me wants to see Biden overpowered as a comeuppance for his hubris and egotism. But part of me wants to see Biden overpower the noisy hysterics who closed ranks around him out of fear and are now fleeing for the same reason."
RFK Jr. sent text apologizing to woman who accused him of sexual assault: The woman called the unsolicited late-night message “disingenuous and arrogant.”
In its third life, D.C. office building becomes first housing conversion: Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) joined developer Gary Cohen to cut the ribbon at the Elle, which was formerly home to the U.S. Peace Corps.
D.C. gets mixed grades for its handling of the NATO summit: Commuters bemoaned traffic and some businesses lost revenue, but at least one biker said it was easy to navigate the city.
Friends remember D.C. woman killed by tree: ‘Effortless, elegant’: Sarah Noah, 35, of Southeast, was found pinned beneath a large branch in Garfield Park and was not conscious or breathing when D.C. police arrived Wednesday.
Who killed the Kennedys? The Rolling Stones won’t tell you anymore.: The rock legends stopped singing a sinister lyric from “Sympathy for the Devil.” Why?
Surprised by Tony P’s NATO video? He was too.: The 25-year-old Instagram influencer shrugs off the naysayers and says he just wanted to help.
He wanted to focus on issues students cared about. Then the crises began.: Sami Saeed, 18, became Montgomery County’s student board member during one of its hardest years.
After 4-month trial, jury finds 3 men guilty in killing of 13-year-old: Malachi Lukes was walking to play basketball with his friends in Shaw when prosecutors say several men sprayed the area with bullets in a turf war. - "Freeman’s attorney told Judge Rainey Brandt that his client wants to be sentenced under the District’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, a controversial city law that gives individuals 25 years of age or younger at the time of their crime a chance to receive a lighter sentence and have their criminal records sealed should they successfully complete probation." [ed. note: god help us]
‘Black Pill’ is a disturbing look at how ‘meme magic’ captured the GOP: Elle Reeve’s deeply reported book explores the slippery irony and dangerous absurdities at the heart of what was once the alt-right and is now Trump’s Republican Party.
Opinion About time: Senators demand special counsel to investigate Clarence Thomas: For once, Attorney General Merrick Garland should act quickly.
This Trader Joe’s seasoning is a hot item. In South Korea, it’s illegal.: Jars of Everything But the Bagel seasoning are being seized at the airport because they contain poppy seeds, which South Korean law classifies as a narcotic.
U.S., Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer, officials say: Armin Papperger is the head of Rheinmetall, a major German arms manufacturer that has been a key supplier of artillery shells and tanks for Ukraine.
Russia vows response if U.S. puts longer-range missiles in Germany: A Kremlin spokesman said the stationing of Tomahawk and hypersonic weapons in Europe was a “very serious threat to our national security.”
Opinion Hong Kong is more Chinese, but don’t call it ‘another Chinese city’: As expats leave, officials say they’re unconcerned — but their reaction to criticism says otherwise.
Hawaii isn’t protected by NATO. Some senators are trying to change that.: The archipelago became a state 10 years after NATO was born, but remains outside of the treaty’s geographic scope. - "Article 5 of the treaty states that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all, but Article 6 clarifies that such protections only apply to land, forces, vessels or aircraft north of the Tropic of Cancer. Hawaii, as well as the U.S. territories of Guam and Puerto Rico, are south of that line. American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands are also south of the Tropic of Cancer.
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"He added that any effort to amend the treaty to include Hawaii would be 'unlikely to gain consensus' because other allied nations also have territory outside the geographic scope of the agreement. (Martinique, an island in the Caribbean home to nearly 400,000 people, is a French 'overseas department' south of the Tropic of Cancer.) Such a discussion would 'open something of a Pandora’s box,' Blinken said. 'I’m not sure that we could get there.'"
Inside the glitzy fundraiser where Biden lost George Clooney: Some donors who attended the June 15 event at L.A.’s Peacock Theater said this week that they noticed Biden seemed slow. He seemed frail. As he greeted donors lined up for photos, he trailed off or spoke too quietly to be heard.
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