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'Man on Wire' legend Philippe Petit performs 'Wonder on the Wire' at National Building Museum in DC 03/20/2023 01:22pm • Hear our full conversation on my podcast “Beyond the Fame.” His stunning 1974 high-wire walk across New York City's ill-fated Twin Towers was chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary "Man on Wire" (2008), and again in the narrative flick "The Walk" (2015). This week, Philippe Pe Departing WTOP staffers share highlights of their time at the station 12/26/2022 01:00am • Tuning in to 103.5 WTOP-FM is second nature to millions of people who drive in the D.C. area. Whether you're driving to work, going home, picking up your kids from school, or going into the city for a night-out, the voice of WTOP has been the welcomed back seat driver who actually knows how to get y Son's coach ID'd as Florida mom's killer decades after her murder 12/04/2022 07:00am • ▶ Watch Video: The Betrayal of Linda Slaten On Sept. 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, 15 and his brother Time, 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police and told their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill wher Weekend Road and Rail: New traffic patterns on I-66 and express tolling begins 09/23/2022 06:45am • A new traffic configuration on Interstate 66 will cause stops in two locations; the Express Lanes free rides end this weekend; Fiesta DC will close streets in the District, and Metro’s shutdown and weekend maintenance continues. Here's what to watch out for this weekend. Roadwork Virginia T PHOTOS: 9/11 memorialized 21 years later 09/12/2022 05:43am • Sunday marked the 21-year anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks in America on Sept. 11. Memorial services were held in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Americans remembered the nearly 3,000 lives taken on that tragic day. See photos of the 9/1 How a Fairfax Co. high school history teacher discusses 9/11 with students 09/11/2022 12:05am • When seniors at Hayfield Secondary School in Fairfax County, Virginia, entered Doug Zywiol's government class Friday, Zywiol began talking about where he was on Sept. 11, 2001. Zywiol, the school's social studies department chair, told his students he was 18 and a freshman in college at the time. 9 Short Squeeze Stocks That Could Take Off in September 09/06/2022 08:00pm • These stocks have the right conditions to trigger short squeezes.Short squeezes have been among the most popular and controversial topics on Wall Street in the past couple of years. In early 2021, groups of online stock traders on Reddit began orchestrating targeted buying campaigns in some of the m 10 intriguing homecoming games to watch in 2022-23 NBA season 09/03/2022 09:30am •  A chaotic NBA offseason saw plenty of old faces land in new places. Now that the NBA schedule has been released, players now know when they will be returning to their old stomping grounds. The dates for all 1,230 regular season contests are out, and there is already anticipation building f 5 years after Charlottesville violence: What lessons have been learned? 08/12/2022 01:44am • Five years after a violent weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, surrounding the white nationalist Unite The Right rally, the commonwealth's former homeland security chief says challenges remain in preventing a recurrence. "Some of the very same groups that were involved in Charlottesville storme New interactive technology brings Notre Dame Cathedral to the District 04/18/2022 06:35am • Visiting Notre Dame Cathedral is now as easy as getting a ticket to a D.C. museum. A new exhibit at the National Building Museum is giving visitors an up close and personal experience with the famous French structure. More D.C. News More Lifestyle News It’s called "Notre DC's National Theatre stages Broadway's acclaimed 9/11 musical 'Come From Away' 04/08/2022 11:48am • Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Now, National Theatre stages the 9/11 musical "Come From Away" from April 12 to 17. "Come see us Easter weekend," actor Kilty Reidy told WTOP. "Redemption, forgiveness and taking care of one another, Capitol riot: Lessons learned are unclear 01/06/2022 05:50am • Even after a year and the arrests of hundreds, thousands of pages of documents gathered and subpoenas being issued, there is still no clear understanding of how the Jan. 6 riot was organized. As a result, a former Department of Homeland Security official believes it too early to know how much was Former Montgomery County police chief who was public face of Beltway Sniper investigation dies at 68 11/26/2021 04:34pm • Former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who became the public face of the investigation into the Beltway Sniper rampage that terrorized the D.C. region, has died. Moose, who left his post in 2003, was 68, according to a statement from the department. Moose's wife posted a message Survey: 52% of U.K. Residents Don't Know Toll of Holocaust 11/10/2021 12:00am • For years, advocates and scholars have contended that continual education and remembrance of past large-scale killings are the best approaches to avoiding them in the future. Yet despite efforts to educate populations about global atrocities that have occurred before and since the Holocaust -- the Newsom, GOP rivals seek votes in California recall's final weekend 09/11/2021 09:26pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Democratic allies of California Gov. Gavin Newsom continued to express confidence Saturday in his chances of beating back a recall but warned his supporters not to let up on urging people to vote as they seek a decisive win, while Republicans said the contest is far from set