Tag: Washington D.C.

Signs promoting 5G wireless technology from Chinese technology firm Huawei are displayed

Huawei fraud trial set to begin over Iran dealings

Kaelan Deese · September 8, 2026 1:04 pm

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, speaks at an even for first lady Jill Biden to present her 2021 inaugural ensembles to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Lonnie Bunch to step down as Smithsonian secretary

Molly Parks · September 8, 2026 12:20 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a Steel Across America event with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation on the Ellipse, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Washington.

Trump honors 9/11 first responders with new Coast Guard cutter and Presidential Medal of Freedom

Mabinty Quarshie · September 8, 2026 11:57 am

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaks during an event at the renamed Donald J Trump Institute of Peace.

Washington Secrets

Marco Rubio won’t run in 2028 because he thinks the election is unwinnable

Rob Crilly · September 8, 2026 11:14 am

Sisters playing together in a park.

Head Start programs get $225 million MAHA boost from Trump administration

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 8, 2026 11:00 am

Trump in the Rose Garden smiling while speaking.

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds ‘Steel Across America’ event

Molly Parks · September 8, 2026 10:47 am

The Confederate Memorial is seen in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Dec. 18, 2023.

Trump administration changes wording for Confederate-era statue removed in 2023

Emily Hallas · September 8, 2026 10:02 am

The Department of Energy in Washington, Thursday, May 1, 2015.

Energy and Environment

Trump closes $1.9 billion loan to restart nuclear power plant in Iowa

Callie Patteson · September 8, 2026 9:49 am

A woman stands in a hemp field.

Hemp ban would shut down 68% of US industry, report finds

Molly Parks · September 8, 2026 8:00 am

Former Sen. John E. Sununu.

Sununu and Shaheen look to keep political dynasties alive in New Hampshire

David Sivak · September 8, 2026 7:00 am

Julia Sargent, 2, of Brattleboro, Vt., waves an American flag as she's carried by her mother during the Fourth of July parade in Brattleboro, Vt., on Saturday, July 4, 2026. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)

Trump’s new stay-at-home-parent plan misses the mark

Patrick T. Brown · September 8, 2026 6:00 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 file photo, from left, Secretary of State Colin Powell, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton attend a meeting with the National Security Council in the Cabinet Room of the White House. While the Secret Service played “hide the president” with Bush on Sept. 11 — he was shuttled to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska, for fear of terrorist attacks — his vice president hunkered down in a “secure, undisclosed location,” a bunker inside the White House where he helped direct the government’s actions.

Patriotism and Unity

Twenty-five years later, polls show what Sept. 11 changed — and what didn’t

Karlyn Bowman · September 8, 2026 6:00 am