Manuel Rocha, shown in 2003, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison after admitting that he worked for decades as a secret agent for Cuba. (Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/AP) A former ...

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) on Capitol Hill in November 2006, just after she was elected to a second term. (Stefan Zaklin/EPA/Shutterstock) When Maria Cantwell first ran for the U.S. Senate, she ...

LANSDALE — A quiet industrial park off of Church Road could soon be the site of one of the area’s fastest-growing trends. Dill Dinkers Pickleball, a national chain of indoor outlets for the ...

The new Hudson's site skyscraper in downtown Detroit has officially reached full height. Construction crews on Wednesday hoisted a final steel beam to top off the tower at just over 681 feet.

A view of Cache Creek as it flows through the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Rumsey, Calif., in April 2023. (Max Whittaker for The Washington Post) President Biden plans to expand ...

An organizer carries a clipboard with petitions for a ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona constitution after the state's Supreme Court revived a law dating to 1864 that ...

An earlier version of this obituary incorrectly attributed an anecdote about Giuseppe Cecchi’s role in bringing the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee to the Watergate complex in ...

Alexander Scott Mercurio in front of a flag of the Islamic State militant group. He was arrested Saturday. (Federal court criminal complaint) After months of planning, federal officials say, 18 ...

Youth activist Miracle Boyd is in good spirits as she votes for the first time at a polling station during early voting in the mayoral election on Feb. 23, 2023, in Chicago. (Joshua Lott/The ...

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza block the cafeteria of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The protest was organized by Christians for a Free Palestine ...

Among the most striking features of Saturday’s weather in D.C. was the noteworthy extent to which it seemed to duplicate the conditions seen here Friday, in terms of wind, clouds, and warmth, of ...