WASHINGTON — As happens sometimes with wealthy Russians, Mikhail Y. Lesin found his business and political fortunes in Vladimir Putin’s Russia crumbling. Once an influential player in Mr. Putin’s rise to power, he was abruptly dismissed from his position in the Kremlin’s powerful media apparatus.
Washington – Authorities have issued a warrant for the arrest of a man they say tried to abduct a child from the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Secret Service says a uniformed officer who was suspended after being charged in a domestic incident earlier this year has been shot and killed.
A video released by an Islamic State-affiliated jihadist group threatened Washington, DC, with a Paris-like attack if it continued its military campaign in Syria.
Brush High School graduate and The Temple-Tifereth Israel member Matthew Castrol Shlonsky was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 14, according to D.C. police. U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, called the shooting “a terrible tragedy.” Shlonsky interned for Portman’s office in 2013.
SEATTLE – A teenage girl who survived a small-plane crash in the craggy, thickly forested mountains of north-central Washington state emerged from the wilderness after hiking “for a couple of days” and was picked up by a motorist who drove her to safety, authorities said Monday. But the fate of her two step-grandparents, who were…
WASHINGTON — A spokesman for the Fairfax County Police Department was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession of child pornography.
Washington – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are showing for the first time surveillance video of a March 4 incident at the White House involving Secret Service agents.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities were searching Tuesday for a man caught on surveillance video running down a sidewalk with a toddler in his arms, with the boy’s two young siblings screaming and chasing behind him, in what authorities in the tiny town of Sprague, Washington, say was a failed kidnapping.