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Migrants returning to Venezuela face debt and harsh living conditions 08/11/2025 12:10am • MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) — The hands of Yosbelin Pérez have made tens of thousands of the aluminum round gridles that Venezuelan families heat every day to cook arepas. She takes deep pride in making the revered “budare,” the common denominator among rural tin-roofed homes and city apartment Could Trump move to federalize DC Monday? There's local pushback on that 08/10/2025 08:57pm • Last week, President Donald Trump warned he might "exert" his presidential powers to place the District under federal control. And with his announcement of a press conference today on District matters, that has led to speculation that he is about to make good on that assertion. Trump has previ 4 children, 2 adults dead in Charles Co. house fire 08/10/2025 06:26pm • Four children and two adults are dead after a house fire erupted in Charles County, Maryland, Sunday morning. There were a total of nine people linked to the house, according to officials. Of the survivors, two people managed to get out of the home and two others were not there when the blaz Curfew for teenagers now in effect at Navy Yard 08/10/2025 04:50pm • D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith placed a curfew for the District's Navy Yard area that started Sunday night. The Juvenile Curfew Emergency Amendment Act of 2025 gives the police chief the authority to order a Juvenile Curfew Zone in an area where large groups of youths are gathering or intending t House fire engulfs Virginia home's rear deck, no injuries reported 08/10/2025 12:39pm • Firefighters were called to the scene of a house fire Saturday in Fairfax County, Virginia, after flames emerged at the exterior of the home. Fairfax firefighters responded to the 13000 block of Sturno Drive in Clifton, as a fire engulfed a rear deck attached to a home. Crews extinguished the Trump administration slashes DC’s security funding by 44% 08/09/2025 04:30pm • While President Donald Trump said crime in the District is "totally out of control," his administration said it will cut security funding for the D.C. area. It was only days ago that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force’s Law Enfo Wreck of Spanish ship attacked in 1748 possibly found in North Carolina 08/08/2025 01:25pm • ▶ Watch Video: Explorer James Delgado shares the secrets beneath the sea Four shipwrecks — including the remains believed to be a 1748 Spanish privateer ship — were recently found at a historical site in North Carolina. A team of archeologists with East Carolina University's program Why the Fairfax County schools superintendent needs a bodyguard 08/06/2025 04:27pm • Fairfax County Public Schools is planning to hire a bodyguard for Superintendent Michelle Reid, a move the Virginia school district said is necessary to bolster security in response to recent "highly publicized tragic events around the country." The job posting, for a role called "executive prote Trump threatens federal takeover of DC. Can he do that on his own? 08/06/2025 02:50pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. President Donald Trump has again warned of a federal takeover of D.C. in the wake of an attack on a former "Department of Government Efficiency" staffer who tried to prote Trump responds after former 19-year-old DOGE employee beaten bloody in DC attempted carjacking 08/06/2025 05:51am • A 19-year-old ex-Department of Government Efficiency employee was violently beaten during an attempted carjacking in D.C. on Sunday. Now, President Donald Trump is once again threatening to "federalize" the District. D.C. Police confirmed to WTOP that around 3 a.m. Sunday, officers observed Edwar Analysis: Siege in Sudan’s El Fasher signals historic humanitarian collapse 08/05/2025 06:00pm • While the world has been focused on Gaza and Ukraine, another catastrophe has been quietly accelerating in the heart of Africa. Sudan’s civil war — now entering its second brutal year — has reached a horrifying new low. In the western region of Darfur, the city of El Fasher remains unde Metro safety watchdog calls for expedited work to install new radio communication system 08/04/2025 06:40pm • The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission released its study of Metro’s radio communication system on Monday and revealed that some key deficiencies remain, despite a plan to improve the system after response delays during a deadly 2015 incident. During that incident, unreliable communication 4 hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak at Ocean City hotel 08/02/2025 09:53am • Four employees were taken to the hospital after a reported carbon monoxide leak due to a ventilation issue with a boiler at a hotel in Ocean City, Maryland, on Friday morning. The Ocean City Fire Department received a call for a “carbon monoxide detector activation" at the Ashore Hotel, at 1010 Key takeaways from 3-day hearing on deadly D.C. midair collision 08/01/2025 08:21pm • ▶ Watch Video: New video emerges of D.C. midair plane crash as frustration grows at NTSB hearing Over the course of three days of investigative hearings, the National Transportation and Safety Board sought to gather more information about the factors that lead to the deadly midair collision July marks five-year high in heat-illness hospitalizations with fatalities climbing 08/01/2025 03:24pm • High temperatures this summer have resulted in the deaths of 19 individuals and more than 1,200 Marylanders landing in the emergency room with heat-related illnesses. That’s a five-year high in hospitalizations related to heat stress, according to updated Department of Health data published thi