The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul has largely ignored Charles Booker this year – except for a moment when his Democratic challenger for U.S. Senate had the chance to command statewide attention.

Emergency crews attended the scene of a motorbike fire at the Esso petrol station on Heworth Road

WASHINGTON — In the closing weeks of an election increasingly dominated by economic issues, the Senate Democrats’ top super PAC is focusing on Social Security in new ad buys worth at least $1 million each aimed at Republicans in Arizona and North Carolina.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and advocates are eyeing year-end legislation as vehicles to expand a low-income housing construction incentive as opportunities dwindle to address a growing affordability crisis before the next Congress.

Lebanon is still mediating between the United States and Syria over the fate of American journalist Austin Tice who went missing a decade ago in the war-torn country, a Lebanese general said Tuesday. Washington maintains that Tice is held by Syrian authorities. Tice went missing shortly after his 31st birthday…

In optics-obsessed Washington, where a necktie color hints at partisan loyalty and flag pins are de rigueur, the climate-themed lapel pin has arrived.

A Russian court has started hearing American basketball star Brittney Griner’s appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession

Races for the positions that oversee elections at the local level are being targeted by those peddling election conspiracies and falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election

WASHINGTON: Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report that blasts industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."