Tag: Washington DC

• Monday, November 10th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

  Deal reached in US Senate to end longest-ever Gov't shutdown

  

  A bipartisan agreement was struck in the Senate on Sunday to end the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, a 40-day impasse that has crippled federal agencies and left hundreds of thousands of civil servants without pay.

• Monday, August 11th 2025 - 21:02 UTC

  Trump declares crime emergency and takes over Washington DC's security

  

  US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the federal government would take control of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. In adition, the National Guard would be deployed to combat what he described as a crime emergency.

• Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

  Airliner, military helicopter plunge into Potomac River after mid-air collision

  

  An American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet on approach at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA/KDCA) collided mid-air with a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Both aircraft ended up in the Potomac River.

• Monday, June 5th 2023 - 12:19 UTC

  Business jet crashes after crossing through Washington DC's no-fly zone

  

  A small plane, identified as a Cessna 560 Citation V business jet, crashed in a sparsely populated area in the US State of Virginia Sunday after the pilot was unresponsive to warnings from Air Force fighters dispatched to escort the aircraft as it was entering Washinton DC's no-fly zone.

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

  US Gov't seizes Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC

  

  The Government of the United States has taken temporary control of the premises where the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC used to function following the dissolution of the so-called interim government of Juan Guaidó, it was reported during the weekend citing State Department sources admitting that the premises had been seized on Feb. 6 last.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:23 UTC

  Washington DC mayor wants active-military sent by Trump out of the city

  

  Thousands of National Guard troops and federal officers in riot gear and masks ringed the White House and monuments in the U.S. capital this week, evoking comparisons to an occupying force. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday said she wants most of them out of her district of 700,000 residents. But her powers are limited.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Thousands demonstrate before the US Capitol yelling “silence is violence”

  

  Thousands of demonstrators took to a knee in the grass outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, chanting “silence is violence” and “no justice, no peace,” just before a government-imposed curfew as rallies against police brutality swelled in major cities.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Trump threatens to deploy thousands of “heavily armed” soldiers

  

  US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was deploying thousands of “heavily armed” soldiers and police to prevent further protests in Washington, where buildings and monuments have been vandalized near the White House.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 09:07 UTC

  Women’s economic empowerment discussed at OAS with Ivanka Trump

  

  The Inter-American Council for Integral Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) today organized a meeting that featured Secretary General Luis Almagro, White House Advisor Ivanka Trump and the President and CEO the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Ray W. Washburne, to discuss “Financial Empowerment of Women for the Sustainable Social and Economic Development of the Americas.”