Washington Wizards News
Hometown star Frances Tiafoe, tennis legend Venus Williams, upstart Alex Eala headline DC Open
The pride of D.C. tennis in Frances Tiafoe and one of the greatest female athletes ever in Venus Williams are headliners once again at the DC Open. They're joined this year by another name -- Alex…
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Appeals court rejects Trump bid to have Postal Service screen mail-in ballots
A federal appeals court has rejected President Trump's attempt to revive an executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a gatekeeping role in this year's elections by refusing to…
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Displaced from wildfires in Spain share their stories of uncertainty and narrow escapes
Elvira Menendez knows how lucky she is that her house is not a charred ruin like so many others in Spain and France devastated by deadly wildfires.
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Brazil recalls ambassador after Argentina's President Milei insults government officials
Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Sunday that it recalled its ambassador to Argentina after President Javier Milei insulted Brazilian officials while in their country.
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Man accused of yelling 'Allahu Akbar' in Manhattan stabbing spree faces hate crime charges
New York City prosecutors accused a knife-wielding man of hate crimes after he allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" before stabbing an Asian man and a Jewish man in a violent spree last week.
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Wisconsin's capital city cancels signature events, grapples with fallout from police shooting
A police shooting in Wisconsin's progressive capital city this week put the spotlight on persistent and deep racial divisions, prompting cancellations and other changes to popular summertime events as…
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Guyana appoints experts tasked with investigating ferry capsizing that killed dozens
Guyana's government on Sunday appointed a group of international experts to investigate the recent sinking of a state ferry that killed dozens of passengers in the country's worst maritime disaster on…
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Tim Kaine rejects national voter ID mandate, says states should handle issue
Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, on Sunday rejected calls for a national voter ID mandate, saying instead state legislatures should pass their own voter identification laws.
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Romania scrambles F-16 jets and downs a suspected Russian drone, the third in 3 days
Romania shot down a suspected Russian drone after it crossed into its airspace on Sunday - the third such incursion in three days in the Eastern European nation that's both a European Union and a NATO…
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For some, so-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup
To be fair, James Cameron did warn us.
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Netanyahu accuses Mamdani of stoking antisemitism, says Democrats privately fear radical fringe
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of fomenting antisemitism and directly blamed his anti-Israel rhetoric for a climate of fear gripping Jewish…
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Sweltering heat wave grips central and southern U.S. for a second straight day
Tens of millions of people are under extreme heat warnings across central and southern parts of the United States on Sunday as high temperatures and severe humidity grip large swaths of the country…
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Waltz: Military action against Iran still on the table even as U.S. strikes on hold
The Trump administration's Mike Waltz said military action against Iran remains an option even as U.S. air strikes against the regime have been on hold since Friday.
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Federal officials investigate after a video appears to show a person kicking a California sea lion
Federal wildlife authorities are investigating after a video appeared to show a person kicking a protected sea lion at a beach in California.
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A fatal attack on Berlin's Pride festival leaves locals wondering how their city will recover
For Ali Darwich, the deadly attack on the Berlin Pride Festival was an attack on the city of Berlin and everything it stands for: its diversity, its tolerance and its belief in freedom.
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Mosques in West Bank are set on fire during a weekend of settler violence
Two mosques in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were set on fire overnight in an apparent Israeli settler attack, officials said Sunday, after a spate of deadly violence that killed four Palestinians…
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Raul Castro absent as Cuba celebrates anniversary of key revolutionary attack
Cuba held a traditional rally on Sunday to commemorate one of the revolution's most important anniversaries, with former President Raul Castro, 95, conspicuously absent.
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2 dead in Ukraine from Russian attacks, 4 more in Russian-held area hit by Ukrainian drones
Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv early on Sunday, setting off fires and wounding at least three civilians, while attacks on other parts of Ukraine later killed at least two people, local…
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Germany says fatal Berlin Pride attack believed to be an act of Islamic extremist terror
German investigators on Sunday hunted a man who allegedly drove a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival, killing one person and wounding many more, before apparently stabbing others with a…
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Exclusive: In a Ukrainian bomb shelter, Laura Loomer explains shift on Russia's war
Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted by Russia in its yearslong war, she wants to admit that she fell…
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