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Movie Review: 'Midway' is standard-issue account of World War II turning point 11/11/2019 02:02am • The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific front in World War II. And yet, it somehow hasn't captured the Hollywood imagination like the D-Day Invasion or Iwo Jima. Decades after the Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda vehicle "Midway" (1976), the battle was ironically left out of Investigation: Aging US dams pose risk to thousands 11/10/2019 04:37am • On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house. Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ic Movie Review: 'The Irishman' is Scorsese’s elegy to the gangster genre 11/08/2019 12:26am • No filmmaker has explored American crime more poetically or prolifically as Martin Scorsese with "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas," "Casino," "Gangs of New York," "The Departed" and "The Wolf of Wall Street." It was only a matter of time before the master took on Jim Md. Navy employee admits he offered boys drugs, iPhone for child porn 11/07/2019 07:02pm • A Navy employee from Silver Spring, Maryland, will spend the next 40 years of his life in prison after he admitted he enticed more than 10 children to produce sexual images for him that he then shared with other adults while overseas. A judge sentenced Spencer Steckman, 36, after he took a plea d Prince William County election results 2019 11/06/2019 05:50pm • Here are election results in Prince William County, Virginia. This page will be updated as results come in. You can also see all Prince William County results on the Virginia Board of Elections site. *=incumbent Virginia House of Delegates See results as they come in here. Virginia Senate DC Dem Party chair 'deeply disappointed' in Evans; asks councilman 'to take a step back' 11/06/2019 04:00pm • There's a choir of calls for scandal-plagued D.C. Council member Jack Evans to resign from his post, and now the D.C. Democratic Party has asked Evans to step down as a national committeeman. On the heels of a report by the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers made public Tuesday, which cites near DC Council member Jack Evans asked to resign following release of report on ethics probe 11/06/2019 10:05am • FILE- In this May 31, 2019 file photo, D.C. Council member Jack Evans joins D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, right, at the podium during a news conference announcing a dedicated bus lane in downtown Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) An investigation on behalf of the D.C. Council into the Meet the Paralympic swimmer changing perceptions of disability 11/05/2019 05:32am • Théo Curin is no ordinary teenager. At the age of six, he contracted meningococcal meningitis, a rare bacterial disease that can sometimes lead to clotting in the blood, causing tissue to die. To save his life, doctors had to amputate the ends of his limbs. Because he was so young when the Ginosi barred from selling illegal short-term rentals in DC 11/01/2019 01:38pm • D.C. has banned California-based company Ginosi from selling dozens of illegal short-term rentals in residential apartment buildings, forcing the company to pay more than $782,000 in unpaid taxes and civil penalties. D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine said the Ginosi USA Corporation violated Di Data Doctors: Are free password managers safe? 11/01/2019 04:40am • Q: Are free password managers safe to use? A: Everyone has heard the advice that you need to use long, complex passwords, unique to every account that you use. Unless you have just one or two online accounts, the only way to adhere to these security measures is to use some form of password manager. Today in History: Nov. 1 11/01/2019 12:00am • Today is Friday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2019. There are 60 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 1, 1936, in a speech in Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between his country and Nazi Germany as an "axis" running between Rome and Berlin. On this Man arrested for selling fake World Series tickets near Nats Park 10/27/2019 04:32pm • If you're hoping to get a last minute ticket to the World Series, you may need to watch out for ticket scams. A West Virginia man was arrested on Friday for allegedly selling fake World Series tickets. Ondre Nelson, 54, of Huntington, sold a man the fake tickets near the entrance to Nationals Exclusive: Lawyer who kept Jesse Matthew, others off Va. death row stepping down 10/23/2019 12:13pm • For the past 17 years, every time Doug Ramseur sat at the defense table in a Virginia courtroom, the person he was representing could be put to death — including Charlottesville murderer Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. Ramseur is opening his own practice in Richmond and stepping down from his position How contaminated is your drinking water? Find out 10/23/2019 01:14am • An environmental activist group is making it easier for consumers to know what contaminants are in local drinking water, and suggesting ways to reduce health risks. "Legal doesn't necessarily equal safe," said Sydney Evans, an analyst with The Environmental Working Group, which describes itself a Amazon's Jeff Bezos surprises DC computer class 10/21/2019 04:47pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '56a9b9ac-e1bb-4f5a-8179-1607e22d56e4' }).render("526615362bfd89fd");}); Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos strolled into a D.C