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Cast of 'A Different World' reunites on tour and makes a stop in DC 04/10/2024 04:10am • The cast from the 90s hit show "A Different World" was in D.C. on Tuesday as part of a 10-city tour to historically Black colleges across the country. The event, called “Hillman Day at Howard,” not only celebrated the show and its contributions to HBCUs, it also focused on boosting enrollmen Inside Missy Elliott's first headlining tour, with Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland 04/08/2024 08:52am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a 24,000-square-foot studio near downtown Los Angeles, Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Ciara are preparing to film the video announcement for a tour no one saw coming. This summer, the trio — along with legendary producer Timbaland — will hit the road for Elliott's fir Nationals Notebook: Nats can't hide but they can run 04/08/2024 04:23am • It's easy to be impressed with big swings. Power pitching and power hitting are the most impressive, and we've seen both in D.C. over the years in Max Scherzer's 20-strikeout night to Bryce Harper hitting 42 homers during his MVP season of 2015. But in a world where the Nationals don't have a col House Republicans launch longshot effort to rename airport after Trump 04/02/2024 10:16am • ▶ Watch Video: Biden rebukes Trump after social media post Washington — A group of House Republicans is spearheading a longshot effort to rename the largest airport in the Washington, D.C.-area — to honor former President Donald Trump. H.R. 7845 would designate the Washington D Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge 03/30/2024 10:56pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Teams of engineers worked Saturday on the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which crumpled into the Patapsco River this week after a massive cargo ship crashed into one of its supports. Sparks c Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US 03/28/2024 07:52am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it's not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant spiders and scorpions. It's Mexico. � Don't feed the plants! 'Little Shop of Horrors' devours Ford's Theatre in DC 03/25/2024 01:00pm • It began as a 1960 horror comedy flick directed by Roger Corman before Alan Menken and Howard Ashman adapted it into an off-Broadway musical that hit the big screen in 1986 directed by Muppet master Frank Oz. Now, "Little Shop of Horrors" gets a fresh take with a diverse cast at Ford's Theatr Oscar nominee comes home to screen 'Madu' at AFI Silver Theatre before Disney+ premiere 03/22/2024 04:02am • He earned an Oscar nomination for his Netflix documentary "Audible" about the football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick, Maryland. Now, D.C. filmmaker Matt Ogens is out with his new documentary "Madu," which screens at the AFI New African Film Festival at the AFI Silver T 'Every shot matters to someone.' Basketball fans revel in, and bet on, March Madness tournament 03/21/2024 01:57pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — This is the best time of the year for Mark Bawers: Day after day of uninterrupted college basketball, all of it consequential. “I love how excited everyone gets — every shot matters to someone: on the points spread, the total, on a bracket,” he said. “Someone's h Maryland chef competes on Food Network show 03/20/2024 07:05pm • Some of the world's greatest chefs are competing in the Food Network's "Tournament of Champions," including Maryland's own Tobias Dorzon. He's in the quarterfinals, or Great 8, and is one step closer to winning $150,000. He says the competition is beyond intense. "Outside of the 100 cameras t Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails across the US 03/19/2024 09:12am • When Mike O’Neil opened his bicycle repair shop in Muncie, Indiana, the Cardinal Greenway trail just outside its window stretched only 2 miles south of the shop. Today, it extends 33 miles (53 kilometers) beyond that, but the ultimate vision is far grander. O'Neil hopes the trail born from eastern US senators from Virginia, Maryland urge no increase in long-distance flights at Reagan National 03/17/2024 09:57am • The four U.S. senators from Virginia and Maryland are urging Congress to keep the current rules for long distance flights from Reagan National Airport as they are. The senators wrote both House and Senate members who oversee airports not to change the long-distance flight rules at Reagan National David Harris, the first Black pilot hired by a major U.S. airline, has died at 89 03/13/2024 03:56pm • DALLAS (AP) — David E. Harris, who flew bombers for the U.S. military and broke barriers in 1964 when he became the first Black pilot hired at a major U.S. airline, has died. He was 89. Harris' family said he died March 8 in Marietta, Georgia. No cause was given. Harris spent 30 years flying for A Geek flags fly at DC Awesome Con 03/11/2024 07:50am • D.C. was invaded this weekend by superheroes and characters from comic books, video games and movies, thanks to Awesome Con. More than 60,000 people attended the pop culture convention at The Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest, D.C. Stephanie Feama brought her children and gra Editorial Roundup: United States 03/06/2024 11:29am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: March 4 The Washington Post on SCOTUS keeping Trump on ballot No, there is no one weird trick to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot and out of the White House. That is the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court, which ru