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Green dropped from US roster with rib injury 10/09/2014 08:20pm • EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Midfielder Julian Green will miss the United States' exhibition games against Ecuador and Honduras because of a rib injury.The 19-year-old trained with the Americans in Boston on Tuesday and Wednesday, but U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann decided Green should return to Hambur Area airports' out-of-sync growth could increase fees 10/09/2014 02:07am • WASHINGTON -- The D.C. region's three airports generate billions of dollars in economic activity and provide more than 300,000 jobs, but they're competing for passengers and there are changes on the horizon. Travelers who wish to fly in and out of the area have three options -- Baltimore-Washin Columbia man recalls flight with Ebola-diagnosed man 10/02/2014 07:33pm • WASHINGTON -- Imagine finding out you were on the flight with a person known to have a deadly virus? That's what happened to a Columbia, Maryland, man. When Dennis Brown's wife told him he flew from Brussels to Washington D.C. on the same day as the man who tested positive for the Ebola virus, h 35,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska 10/02/2014 06:26pm • DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Pacific walrus that can't find sea ice for resting in Arctic waters are coming ashore in record numbers on a beach in northwest Alaska.An estimated 35,000 walrus were photographed Saturday about 5 miles north of Point Lay, according to the Nation Everything you need to know about pumpkin beer 10/02/2014 03:44pm •   By Rob Fink WTOP Beer Contributor WASHINGTON -- The tastes of autumn's harvest can't be contained to produce stands. There's a growing demand for fall flavors in a variety of foods and drinks. (Never mind the flavored lattes; Nabisco recently announced its new foray into fall: the Pump Ebola-infected passenger was sent home from ER 10/02/2014 12:38am • LAURAN NEERGARD Associated Press DALLAS (AP) -- The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a disclosure that showe Answers about lingering delays at Chicago airports 09/30/2014 04:24am • SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Airlines Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Traffic at Chicago's two busiest airports was slowly returning to more normal levels Monday, three days after a fire at a regional air traffic control center disrupted much of the nation's air-travel system. The Federal Aviation Administration has Illinois air traffic center fire snarls flights 09/27/2014 02:00am • JASON KEYSER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- A contract employee set fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control center where he worked, bringing two of the nation's busiest airports to a halt Friday, according to a criminal complaint.Brian Howard, 36, of Naperville, Illinois, is charged with de Illinois air traffic center fire snarls flights 09/26/2014 11:14pm • JASON KEYSER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- A contract employee set fire at a suburban Chicago air traffic control center where he worked, bringing two of the nation's busiest airports to a halt Friday, according to a criminal complaint.Brian Howard, 36, of Naperville, Illinois, is charged with de NATO's outgoing chief: 'We cut fat, built muscle" 09/23/2014 11:34am • JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) -- When Anders Fogh Rasmussen took over at NATO, the alliance was struggling to contain a growing insurgency in Afghanistan, and some predicted it would soon follow its Cold War foe, the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, into the dustbin of history.Five years 'Madam Secretary' stars hit red carpet for DC premiere 09/18/2014 12:13pm • WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital has always been the place for politics. Now it's increasingly becoming a hot spot for political entertainment. That's why the stars came out Thursday night for the D.C. premiere of the new CBS drama "Madam Secretary." The event recalled the 2012 premiere of Net Cousins, 'Skins rebound in Week 2 09/16/2014 05:36pm • WASHINGTON -- It's official. We have a quarterback controversy in Washington. I've fought the notion tooth and nail. I've even mocked it openly. But now I see its arrival. And I'm starting to buy it. Sunday's blowout win over Jacksonville came at a high price. Robert Griffin III went down wi Southwest Airlines to add flight from BWI to Costa Rica (Video) 09/12/2014 11:55am • Traveling to sunny Costa Rica from the Washington region will get a little bit easier next year, thanks to a new nonstop flight from Southwest Airlines between Baltimore-Washington International Airport and San Jose, Costa Rica. The company is currently seeking government approval for the flight and Flags flying at half-staff in Md., Va. and D.C. 09/11/2014 08:19am • WASHINGTON -- Flags in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. are flying at half-staff in honor of 9/11. Gov. Martin O'Malley ordered the Maryland and U.S. flags flown at half-staff in memory of the people who died on that day. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe did the same. In D.C., the city started flying t D.C. Shorts returns as 'world's coolest' short film fest 09/10/2014 07:03am • WASHINGTON -- MovieMaker Magazine named it the Coolest Short Film Fest, not only in America, but in the world. This weekend, D.C. Shorts returns for its 11th year with 135 short films from 25 countries, now through Sept. 21. "When I created this 11 years ago, it was about building a festival f