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    Upcoming meetings and events in the D.C. area

    Celebrate Earth Day with the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Enjoy musical performances, craft workshops, and face painting for kids 12 and under. Budget Oversight Hearing: Committee of the Whole Budget Over

  • Haley headed to D.C. but to a think tank

    MORNING NEWSBREAK  |  Former Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley of Kiawah Island announced Monday that she has joined the Washington, D.C.-based Hudson Institute, a conservative foreign policy think tank, as the group’s Walter P. Stern chair. The position was created in 2020 to celebrate former chairman Walter Stern, who was instrumental in making Hudson into […]

  • Foxtrot Hastily Shutters Stores in D.C. and Elsewhere

    Tuesday was an extra cold day in the freezer aisle of Foxtrot, a bougie grocery store chain with multiple locations in D.C. The grocery retailer abruptly shuttered all of their […]

  • D.C. Courts Pop-Up Businesses Ahead of WorldPride

    D.C. hopes PUPs, an expedited permitting process, will allow businesses to quickly set up shop to revitalize downtown ahead of 2025.

  • Fast cyclists can move to the roads in Amsterdam experiment

    The Netherlands may be famous for its great facilities for cyclists, but now Amsterdam has launched an experiment allowing cyclists with fast e-bikes to use the road rather than a designated bike path. The trials have started on the Bilderdijkstraat and Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat in West and mean motorists can now expect to meet cyclists as well as moped drivers on “their” part of the road. City transport chief Melanie van der Horst says the idea is to determine if

  • Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news, thanks to a D.C. judge

    Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau, April 18, 2024 You may have figured that you’d heard the last of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who deserted his regiment in Afghanistan and subsequently was convicted of the offense in a court martial at which he plead guilty. But the story of the ex-sergeant has taken a new […]

  • D.C. Police Still Searching for Fire Extinguisher-Wielding Thief

    D.C.’s Wet Bandit continues to elude police.  Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to yet another robbery at a 7-Eleven Tuesday. It’s the fifth such incident at 7-Elevens in D.C. (and […]

  • Bioelectronic chip detects vitamins C and D in saliva in under 20 minutes

    Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a bioelectronic chip that simultaneously detects vitamins C and D in body fluids. It is flexible and easy to see and can be adapted for use in a wearable device to assist with a personalized diet. Details are described in an article published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

  • Can Steelers Grab C Jackson Powers-Johnson In Round 2?

    Can the Steelers grab C Jackson Powers-Johnson in the second round? Draft week is upon us, and pretty soon we’re going to find out what was legitimate and what was bull. One of the most interesting narrative this draft season for the Steelers has been the center class. To hear many tell it, there’s no

  • D.C. United collapses late in demoralizing loss to Orlando City

    D.C. United concedes two goals in the final minutes of a 3-2 loss to

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    Troy Lesesne’s D.C. United Could Be The Best Team In MLS

    Seven games into the 2024 MLS season, D.C. United sits mid-table in its conference, but the data shows it could be one of the best teams in the league.

  • Cyclists say awareness can help reduce crashes involving bikes and cars

    SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield Police Department (SPD), along with bicyclists are hoping for more public awareness after two crashes involving bikes and cars happened in the past seven days. On April 15, 34-year-old Evangel Professor Renee Griffith Grantham was killed east of Springfield. Four days later, a child was seriously injured in another crash []