‘Buckingham Nicks,’ the missing link of the Fleetwood Mac saga, is back: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s 1973 album prefigured their pop triumphs in Fleetwood Mac but was lost in the streaming era. That changes Sept. 19.
The Harry Potter play goes big on special effects — and fan nostalgia: Now on tour, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” has the gang all grown up with kids — who are well-versed in their parents’ lore.
Toddler shot and wounded in Southeast D.C., police say: The 1-year-old girl’s injury was described as non-life-threatening.
Walgreens manager sentenced for role in robberies that shook Chinatown: The Walgreens, located at Seventh and H streets NW, was robbed seven times between July 2023 and February 2024.
Trump visits the Federal Reserve in escalation of pressure campaign: The president visited the central bank as the White House criticizes an extensive $2.5 billion renovation project.
Denied federal flood relief, a Maryland town is left on its own: The residents of Westernport, Maryland, overwhelmingly voted for Trump. But after FEMA denied its aid request, the town feels like the president has turned his back on them.
The 12 days that turned back the clock on Iran’s nuclear program: Israeli and American assessments agree Tehran’s infrastructure to finish a bomb is shattered.
Trump’s tariffs are promoting free trade — in Canada: Politicians and industry leaders have long pushed to remove barriers to interprovincial trade. Trump’s tariffs are giving the effort new momentum. - "With few exceptions, alcohol producers in one Canadian province are prohibited from selling directly to consumers in another. Vintners in British Columbia, for instance, can often more easily sell their merlots to oenophiles in other countries than within their own."
An American mega-influencer flew to Lithuania. Then the chaos began.: The streamer IShowSpeed drank pink soup in the Baltics and marveled at cars in China. Are his tours propaganda, or just good advertising? - "Speed’s lighthearted visits to China, Saudi Arabia and other countries have drawn criticism as propaganda exercises that promoted the countries in ways they wanted, rather than reckoning with their more complicated reality.
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"Speed’s sprint through the Baltics drew frustration from some locals, including in Latvia, where he did a backflip at the Freedom Monument honoring soldiers killed in the country’s 1918 war for independence and sung to fans from the balcony of the nation’s ailing public radio station. One journalist there wrote that the moment — in which 'an unregulated content creator [was] peacocking at the home of Latvian broadcasting' — offered a foreboding symbol of how modern media had changed."
The last wholesalers of Union Market: In a changing D.C. neighborhood, these business owners are still holding on.
Gabbard and White House 'lying' about intel on Russian interference in 2016, ex-CIA official says: "We definitely had the intel," Susan Miller, who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment of Russia's efforts in the 2016 election, told NBC News.
‘Commanders Saw Us as Expendable’: A Russian Soldier’s View of the War: Mikhail Simdyankin wasn’t prepared for the reality of Moscow’s brutal war machine in Ukraine when he enlisted, lured by propaganda and a big sign-on bonus
The World Has Too Much Steel, but No One Wants to Stop Making It: A global plunge in prices, led by increased production from China, and U.S. tariffs threaten steel manufacturing, which has long been a symbol of national might.
