Authorities said that a wildfire in central Washington covered the nearby city of Yakima in smoke, destroyed at least one home and several outbuildings and threatened more homes Sunday evening. Fire officials said that the blaze started Sunday afternoon about 10 miles west of the city’s downtown and had grown to 8,500 acres by 9:30 [...]
On Friday afternoon, a plane believed carrying Russians involved in the US-Russia spy swap landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. There was no confirmation on whether all the four Russians freed earlier in the day were aboard. The US and Russia have successfully completed a spy swap in Vienna, Austria, the US Justice [...]
The Montreal Canadiens followed one monumental upset by pulling off another, and now the Pittsburgh Penguins are joining the Washington Capitals in sitting out the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs. In Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Wednesday night, Brian Gionta scored two power-play goals, former Michigan star Mike Cammalleri scored his seventh [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is wrapping up a four-day visit to Washington with a televised give-and-take with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Obama administration has done its best to repair strained relations with the Afghan leader, its partner in the war against militants in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Karzai will continue to seek to convince [...]
As they prepared for a summit on nuclear security starting Monday in Washington, Obama administration officials were quietly crafting a common position for world powers that remain sharply divided on the best way to safeguard bomb-making materials. The White House calls the two-day summit as the biggest conference of its type in the US since [...]
Thanks to hefty campaign contributions to GOP lawmakers and expensive lobbying efforts aimed at blunting the impact of environment- and safety-related legislation, the mining industry–which finds itself under renewed scrutiny this week after dozens of fatalities at a West Virginia coal mine–wields major political clout in Washington. According to a review of lobbying disclosures by [...]
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said that a United Airlines flight from Washington to Denver last Wednesday landed safely after air marshals responded to a passenger causing a disturbance on board. A US official said on condition of anonymity that the incident appears to have involved a Qatari diplomat who was smoking a cigarette [...]
On Monday, Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh shocked his party after he announced that he will not seek re-election this year, giving Republicans a good chance to win the seat and underscoring just how poisonous the partisan atmosphere in Washington has become. The decision was a stunning turnaround for the senator who flirted with a [...]
