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Review & Q&A: 'Roma' actress talks Alfonso Cuarón's most personal film 12/07/2018 12:48am • WASHINGTON — He burst onto the scene with the sexy coming-of-age road movie "Y Tu Mamá También" (2001), helmed one of the best "Harry Potter" chapters in "The Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004), transfixed us with long takes in the apocalyptic "Children of Men" (2006) and delivered the greatest 3 Pedestrian in Montgomery Co. struck by police cruiser 12/06/2018 11:42pm • WASHINGTON — A man is in critical condition after being hit by a police car Thursday night in Montgomery County, Maryland. Around 9:30 p.m., an officer driving a marked cruiser on Georgia and Arcola avenues hit a man who was walking in the road, Montgomery County police said. It was not far fro Jury gets case in murder trial of man accused of Charlottesville car attack 12/06/2018 08:07pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jury deliberations began Thursday night in the murder trial of James Alex Fields, the man who is accused of ramming his car into a crowd of counterprotesters last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing Heather Heyer. Prosecutors closed their arguments by zooming in on France's 'Yellow Vests' Movement Reveals Country's Growing Divisions 12/06/2018 07:00pm • PARIS -- As French authorities brace for a possible second weekend of violent protests, observers say the demonstrations that have seized the country for weeks shows a society fractured by economic class and urban-rural divides. And while the movement may appear to echo political currents in other W Commentary: Emmanuel Macron's Mistake Was Not Consulting With the Public 12/06/2018 07:00pm • Energy transitions are about people. The protests happening in France send that signal loud and clear. If green policies are seen to be unjust or to be worsening inequality they will not be accepted, regardless of a government's good intentions. The government of President Emmanuel Macron violated t Pentagon Row parking rates creep up, neighbors blame Amazon 12/06/2018 04:15pm • A Pentagon City parking lot is jacking up some of its monthly rates, and some residents fear that Amazon’s impending arrival in the neighborhood is to blame. Residents of the RiverHouse Apartments (1400 S. Joyce Street) were recently informed by their landlords that their monthly parking rates Closing arguments due in Charlottesville car crash murder trial 12/06/2018 11:31am • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors in the murder trial of James Alex Fields are expected to hear closing arguments Thursday, after two final defense witnesses take the stand. The defense acknowledges Fields crashed his Dodge Challenger into a group of counter-protesters on Aug. 12, 2017, after polic Teens accused of leading Montgomery Co. officers on chase down I-270 in stolen car 12/06/2018 09:16am • WASHINGTON — A group of teens led Montgomery County police on a chase down Interstate 270 early Thursday morning, officers said. It started as a routine traffic stop on Montgomery Village Avenue in the Gaithersburg area as police tried to pull a driver over for a "traffic violation." The sit Pros and Cons to Buying Toyota Motor Corp (TM) Stock 12/05/2018 07:00pm • Toyota Motor Corp has been around since 1937 (and in the U.S. since 1957), and even its very name indicates the company has been blessed with good fortune. Originally, then founder of the company, Kiichiro Toyoda, wanted to name the company after himself, as in "Toyoda." But fate intervened and Toy Myths About Blind Parents 12/05/2018 07:00pm • If you join a Facebook group for blind parents, there are certain topics that come up again and again. What is the best car seat to use, when you don't drive and will therefore be installing and uninstalling your child's car seat in an Uber or Lyft vehicle several times a day? What is the easiest b Credit Card Perks That Are Worth the Annual Fee 12/05/2018 07:00pm • While browsing for credit cards, you've probably noticed that cards with top-tier benefits may come with an annual fee. These fees, which are paid to keep the account open, run from about $75 to $450 or higher. That may give you sticker shock, but keep in mind these cards offer perks -- like cushy a How to Retire By 40 According to People Who Have Done It 12/05/2018 07:00pm • Before the FIRE ("financial independence, retire early") movement invaded the U.S., before there were iPhones, before there was even the internet (gasp!), Billy and Akaisha Kaderli retired at the ripe ages of 38. Now entering their 29th year of retirement, the Kaderlis have more money than ever. "Fo Spike in Gun-Related Suicides Alarms Pediatricians 12/05/2018 07:00pm • Pediatricians and emergency department physicians are alarmed at the growing number of children, mostly adolescents, who are taking their lives with firearms. While mass school shootings like the attack last February that killed 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School James Alex Fields shows remorse, scorn after fatal Charlottesville car crash 12/05/2018 01:45pm • WASHINGTON — Jurors in the trial of the man charged with ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters during the August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville have heard from the man behind the wheel — and James Alex Fields has told two very different stories. As the prosecutio Woman faces charges for driving on I-270 with Md. officer on car hood 12/04/2018 07:23pm • WASHINGTON — A woman who drove down a busy highway with a police officer on the hood of her car is charged with attempted manslaughter and assault, among other charges, according to court documents. It seems like a script out of an action movie, but Maryland State Police said 25-year-old Denai