A Senate staffer said a confirmation hearing for Mr Trump's nominee had not yet been scheduled. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Cambridge Public School officials plan to increase the number of teachers and paraprofessionals at the King Open and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. elementary schools to account for the influx of ...

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House withdrew President Donald ...

Pilots have long worried about the congested and complex airspace around the airport near the heart of the capital, where flights must maneuver around military aircraft and restricted areas. It was no ...

Public health experts say the United States learned some things from COVID-19, but gaps remain in the public health ...

The departure comes as President Donald Trump seeks to dramatically reshape cultural institutions that the White House ...

A possible opening emerged for the District to avoid more than $1 billion in cuts to public services under a Republican ...

A recent book details a little-known plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy shortly after his 1960 electoral victory.

College campuses, cities like Washington, DC, and New York, and entire neighboring nations are all facing pressures to ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA have decided to withdraw or limit grants for research concerning the ...

Bowser, a Democrat, ordered the painting and renamed the intersection Black Lives Matter Plaza in June 2020. It came after ...

Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi is bolstering its lobbying roster with a former adviser to President Donald Trump.