17+ min ago (103+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The president also said he would not have wanted a second strike on a boat allegedly carrying drugs, which occurred after U.S. forces realized the initial attack left two survivors, as The Post reported. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September....

36+ min ago (122+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Just days before a tense presidential election in Honduras, President Donald Trump threw himself into the center of the race. Trump not only pledged his support for the conservative candidate in Sunday's vote " drawing criticism that he was interfering in another country's election " he also said he plans to pardon a former Honduran president " a convicted drug trafficker who was sentenced last year to 45 years in a U.S. federal prison for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and turning his country into a "narco state....

40+ min ago (97+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Kiffin became a hovering theme of the latter part of the college football season as his future at Mississippi became uncertain. The clamor around where Lane Kiffin will coach football in 2026, a circus that blared even as his Mississippi team has contended for the College Football Playoff in 2025, reached a boil Sunday afternoon when Kiffin announced on social media that he will take over at LSU....

3+ hour, 41+ min ago (130+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The last time the Capitals and Islanders met on a Sunday afternoon at UBS Arena, Alex Ovechkin made NHL history. ELMONT, N.Y. " The previous time the Washington Capitals played on a Sunday afternoon at UBS Arena, Alex Ovechkin made history. On April 6, a 12:30 p.m. start against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena was the setting as Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky's NHL goals record with the 895th of his career. Sunday's game is not of similar importance, but it begins a four-game road trip; the Capitals will head to California after the game....

3+ hour, 43+ min ago (99+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Debt, inflation, defense spending, wealth and the penny, through readers" eyes. The Nov. 19 front-page article "Boomers" vast wealth will be hard to replicate" reported that baby boomers hold an estimated $85 trillion in assets. At my 50th high school reunion, I reflected on fortune and fragility. My father helped write Medicaid and Medicare law, and our family benefited from inheritance. Not everyone has that kind of safety net....

5+ hour, 2+ min ago (79+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Voters overwhelmingly reject populism in defense of their country's economic interests. So much bad economic policy comes out of Europe that it's notable when a good decision gets made somewhere on the continent. That's what Swiss voters did Sunday when they robustly rejected a proposed inheritance tax....

6+ hour, 45+ min ago (117+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. In President Donald Trump's first term, we got used to hearing "dog whistles." Trump's populist nationalism was riven through by messaging that implicitly demonized minorities and migrants. Undocumented arrivals were "rapists," inner city youths were "rabid" animals, neo-Nazi marches included "very fine people," and some countries were simply, in Trump's derogatory parlance, places teeming with excrement. The president brought into the mainstream a style of rhetoric brimming with contempt that had previously been kept at bay on the fringes of U.S. political life....

6+ hour, 50+ min ago (69+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. An asymmetrical grid, a rebus puzzle and an extra bonus meta answer: an odd combination for a Sunday, but that's what we've got in today's crossword. First, you'll find the word STAR squashed into seven squares:...

6+ hour, 50+ min ago (106+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. "The Stars We Do Not See" at the National Gallery of Art tells " and muddies " one of the most fascinating stories in 20th century art. Admirers of Australia's Indigenous artists have been pushing for a serious, large-scale presentation of their work at a major U.S. museum for decades. The quality of the work undoubtedly warrants it: The best Australian Indigenous (or Aboriginal) art is not only visually stunning but philosophically rich and politically provocative....

7+ hour, 48+ min ago (80+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Improbable scenes from around the country highlighted a joyride of a Saturday night. If you conked out on the couch Saturday night but then awakened to see wacko things in Auburn, Alabama, and Berkeley, California, deciding key chunks of the college football regular season, don't worry. You weren't hallucinating....