5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (291+ words) Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2026. There are 113 days left in the year. On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (508+ words) Two hundred fifty years ago, as American forces faced one of their darkest moments in the Revolutionary War, a group of Maryland soldiers helped prevent a battlefield defeat from becoming a catastrophe. Their sacrifice during the Battle of Long Island…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (755+ words) August 24, 2026, 7:06 AM Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South Carolina crossroad near the end of the Revolutionary War sit in the oak’s shade to recuperate from the series of attacks in American Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s “war…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (305+ words) August 19, 2026, 11:52 AM While sifting through material at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria earlier this year, Nick Gentry made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. There, among the collection belonging to John Melville Burgess, the first African American to lead an Episcopal diocese,…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (765+ words) Paul Wagner has been telling stories on radio and television in the D.C. region for decades. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the NBC Washington reporter talked to WTOP about his film, “Five Days on the Pile.” It’s the story he felt was…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (356+ words) Mayor Robert Gualtieri presented the recently restored “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” that were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppio hill near the Colosseum. The works are opening…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (512+ words) August 18, 2026, 6:22 AM The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is preparing to celebrate its 10th anniversary next month, marking a milestone for a museum whose first donor plans to be there for the occasion. Donnette Cooper became involved…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago   (924+ words) WEATHER ALERT: Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected across the D.C. region through Sunday night August 16, 2026, 7:42 AM William Franklin was buried at the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he…...