Only the lazy, it seems, did not joke about Americans as “the fattest nation.” The national obesity problem is a serious one, yet 51% of adults in the United States engage in at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity exercise per week, and 31% engage in...
Spring snow continues to fall in DC, creating hazardous road conditions and closing schools and offices in the region. The storm brought the most snow the region has seen at this time of year since 1964. In some places, about 10 cm fell ...
Many residents of Washington witnessed an unexpected sight: a huge fireball lit the sky. Eyewitnesses reported a loud, humming sound; others said they were shaking as the object swept across the sky. The authorities were simultaneously surprised and perplexed by the sudden event and turned to the FAA and other agencies in an attempt ...
The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., attracts 1,5 million people each year to admire the trees in soft pink blooms. However, the Japanese cherry blossom peak - the day when 70% of all flowers bloom - will likely occur earlier this year than...
On the third anniversary of the assassination of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, a square named after him officially appeared in front of the Russian embassy in Washington. The ceremony of naming the square on February 27 was attended by the daughter of the murdered politician Zhanna Nemtsova, his associate, deputy chairman of the Open ...
In Washington, 35-year-old Jessica R. Ford armed with a pistol crashed into a security fence outside the White House, writes NBC. The woman deliberately drove into the fence. In 2017, she was detained three times for trying to enter the White House, including when trying to ...
Only in Washington can you watch the working Congress, see the Guttenberg Bible and the Declaration of Independence, spend half a day with pandas and have lunch right next to the airport runway under the roar of airplanes. After all, Washington is the city where you pay for impressions...
“Selling marijuana is a holy job,” says a rabbi with thirty years of experience who now lives in Washington. As Current Time tells us, he opened a family business not far from his home - a dispensary selling medical cannabis. The business already has more than...
Even though we have two cars per family, I still take the subway to work for the same reasons as most residents of what Trump called the “Washington swamp.” In the center where our office is located, parking is difficult and expensive,…
A train carrying 61 passengers and two crew members derailed on the Washington, D.C., Metro Red Line on the morning of January 15. A preliminary investigation showed that the cause of the accident was most likely damaged rails - the train derailed while it was passing...