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Rangers have some momentum with 3 series wins in a row, and Seager and Langford back in lineup 06/09/2026 06:00am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers finally seem to have some real momentum going in their first season under manager Skip Schumaker. They have won three consecutive series for the first time. Two of those came even before two-time World Series MVP shortstop Corey Seager and outfielder Wyatt Giordano's, an iconic Chicago pizzeria, opens in DC 06/09/2026 05:50am • A new slice of Chicago has arrived in the D.C. area. Giordano’s, an iconic pizzeria that's been serving the Windy City's famous deep-dish pizzas for a half century, opens Tuesday at 14th and F streets NW. General manager Chieyen Meachem said the location near the White House was sele Iran's state TV says at least 2 members of an air defense unit killed in Israeli attacks on Monday 06/09/2026 05:49am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's state TV says at least 2 members of an air defense unit killed in Israeli attacks on Monday. Progressive Nithya Raman advances to November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass 06/09/2026 05:27am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Progressive city council member Nithya Raman has advanced to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, setting up an unexpected matchup between two Democrats and former political allies to run the struggling city of nearly 4 million. The outcome means Spencer Pratt China can build humanoids at scale. The hard part is finding enough buyers 06/09/2026 05:17am • HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market. Robot makers in China say they have thousands of orders from both the government and Big changes coming for student loan system starting July 1 06/09/2026 05:17am • Big changes coming next month will impact how much money people can borrow for college — and how they pay it back. "This is the biggest overhaul of federal student loan lending in decades," said Barry Glassman, president of Glassman Wealth Services, a financial management firm with offices in V Survivors share experiences and lessons from Congo’s 2018 Ebola outbreak 06/09/2026 05:14am • BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, history's second-biggest with more than 3,400 reported cases and over 2,200 From Trump to Messi, Iran to ICE, politics and sport collide at the biggest World Cup in history 06/09/2026 05:10am • The wait is over for the biggest World Cup ever with 48 teams, 104 matches, three host nations and a slew of questions and controversies swirling around the highly scrutinzed event that will last for nearly six weeks. The tournament kicks off in Mexico City on Thursday amid concerns about soaring ti Democratic group launches ad campaign to help flip control of Congress in midterm elections 06/09/2026 05:01am • A Democratic group that previously focused on presidential races is wading into the midterms by targeting more than a dozen House and Senate contests, many of them on Republican turf, in a new advertising campaign that begins Tuesday. American Bridge 21st Century's $50 million effort adds financial Armed group kidnaps 39 people during negotiations in northwestern Nigeria 06/09/2026 04:54am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen abducted 39 people in northwestern Nigeria as they were meeting with the parents of a suspected bandit leader and kingpin for abductions in the region, the police said Monday. The abductions took place on Sunday as some 47 people were at the meeting, hoping to negotiat Arlington high school nurse named Virginia's 'Nurse of the Year' 06/09/2026 04:39am • As Heather Williams takes nursing students on tours through the halls of Wakefield High School, she makes a point of showing them red boxes mounted on the walls. They contain naloxone, which has increasingly become available in D.C.-area schools. She also explains the Arlington school distric 'Great American State Fair' to take over National Mall with Trump as headliner 06/09/2026 04:36am • A massive, state fair-style celebration is coming to the National Mall in D.C. this summer. The headliner? President Donald Trump. The change of plans comes after musicians that had originally been scheduled dropped out. Those artists include Morris Day of Morris Day and The Time, Young MC, T America 250: Theodore Roosevelt's 14,000-mile journey changed the future of public lands 06/09/2026 04:31am • In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting president to tour what would later become some of America's most celebrated natural wonders. The trip came the same year the Wright brothers achieved their first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and four dec America 250: Why federal workers first got healthcare 06/09/2026 04:26am • In the 1950s, lawmakers in Washington, D.C. realized the federal government was in trouble. They were losing the best and the brightest to the private sector. The reason was simple: private companies were offering health insurance to engineers, scientists and skilled workers and the governmen DC Council member Trayon White censured, fined for missing financial disclosures 06/09/2026 04:18am • D.C.'s government ethics board censured Ward 8 Council member Trayon White on Monday, ordering him to pay $900 in fines over a failure to file personal financial disclosures in 2024 and 2025. White missed three of the twice-yearly disclosure deadlines, the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Acco