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Trump's Q&A on Air Force One goes from the plane's color scheme to the fate of TikTok and Canada 01/25/2025 11:36pm • ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy about sharing his thoughts since taking office, and he added a 20-minute Q&A with reporters aboard Air Force One to the mix Saturday night. He held forth on everything from the color of the presidential plane to the fate of T DC Mayor Bowser signs off on child marriage ban 01/25/2025 05:26pm • In a win for human rights advocates Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Child Marriage Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024. This legislation, proposed in October 2024, would ensure protection for minors from early marriages. The bill will now undergo 30 days of congressional review. If a Department of Education dismisses book ban investigations, ends guidance 01/25/2025 12:44pm • Diyosa Carter/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is rescinding all past guidance issued against the removal of books and will no longer employ a coordinator to investigate instances of unlawful book removals.The department a Here's how Maryland schools will respond to potential immigration enforcement on campuses 01/24/2025 03:21pm • Maryland's State Superintendent of Schools Carey Wright sent out guidance on how the state's 24 school systems should respond to federal immigration agencies now that President Donald Trump's administration has removed the "sensitive location" designation that previously made schools off-limits to e Billionaires, tech titans, presidents: A guide to who stood where at Trump's inauguration 01/21/2025 05:46am • The crowded dais in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world’s five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, tech titans and business moguls, and two foreign leaders with prime spots. President Donald Trump welcomed a mix of traditional, unprecedented and unorthodox guest Maryland divorce attorney: Social media sinks contentious divorces 01/20/2025 11:23am • Roughly half of first marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, and if the divorce is contentious, a spouse’s digital footprint will almost certainly come into play. Divorce attorneys are increasingly using e-discovery as evidence in divorce cases. Almost everything that people post on social media Menendez brothers' resentencing hearing postponed due to impact of wildfires 01/18/2025 07:51am • Erik and Lyle Menendez booking photos taken Oct. 10, 2024. Via CRDC.(LOS ANGELES) -- The resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers has been postponed nearly two months due to the wildfires impacting Los Angeles County, the county's lead prosecutor said Friday.Erik and Lyle Menendez had been sch Where will creators and businesses go without TikTok? 01/17/2025 05:17pm • TikTok isn't just a social media platform, it's a massive marketplace, with the businesses on it generating over $1 billion in revenue every month from the millions of people who scroll through the app daily. The financial impact is real and could be powerful to them. The move by the Supreme Cour US Supreme Court upholds ban on TikTok 01/17/2025 01:01pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal ban on TikTok, which is set to go into effect Sunday, unless it is sold by its Chinese parent company. There was no disse DC police captain sues department, accuses it of not offering him same job back after paternity leave 01/17/2025 06:04am • A D.C. police captain is suing the department, accusing it of violating family leave laws by demoting him after he returned from paternity leave. Capt. Paul Hrebenak, who has been with the department for 18 years, said he applied for D.C. paid family leave so he can help his husband take care of Final charge dropped against fired LCPS superintendent; says Va. AG probe was 'politically motivated' 01/17/2025 05:07am • Fired Loudoun County public schools superintendent Scott Ziegler said he "was subjected to politically motivated prosecution, one that disregarded the facts," shortly after attorneys in Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares's office asked a judge to drop the final charge against Ziegler. Ziegle Violence, mold, asbestos: Staffers at Montgomery Co. alternative school voice safety concerns 01/16/2025 05:55am • Teachers and staff at a building that houses two Montgomery County, Maryland, schools — which cater to students with additional needs — claim the school system is not doing enough to ensure students and staff have both a healthy and safe place to learn. One half of the Blair G. Ewing Center o DC gets ready to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary 01/15/2025 06:55pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and America250 Chair Rosie Rios joined students at a bilingual elementary school to kickoff D.C.'s chapter of the commission preparing to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Students at Powell Bilingual Elementary School in Petworth greeted Bowser with a rousing int Trying to convince your kid to wear a jacket instead of a hoodie? A DC doctor weighs in 01/14/2025 03:33pm • Are you battling your children when it comes to wearing a jacket outside? Dr. Omar Jaber, a pediatrician with Children's National Primary Care, said scientifically, it's more dangerous for them not to be warm. "They actually can lose heat faster than adults," Jaber said. But when they reall WTOP ‘s Neal’s Signature Sound: The Augenstein Impression Challenge App Contest Official Rules 01/14/2025 11:53am • Official Rules  NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.  BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, EACH ENTRANT (or entrant’s parent/legal guardian if entrant is deemed a minor in their state of residency) AGREES TO THESE OFFICIAL RU