Pedestrians walk their dogs past parked military vehicles. Commuters move past National Guards at metro stations. Baseball fans are watched by soldiers as they go to a game in Nationals Park.
32-year-old charged after incident at Liberty game
Objects thrown at a number of games this summer
A man has been arrested for throwing a sex toy during an WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday.
It is the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests.
Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings v New York Liberty game on 5 August, New York police said. The object hit a 12-year-old girl, and Burgess was charged with two counts of assault. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Burgess had an attorney.
Pakistán y China se comprometieron el jueves a expandir la cooperación económica y la inversión en el marco del Corredor Económico China-Pakistán, un programa emblemático de la Iniciativa del Cinturón y Ruta de la Seda de Beijing, según funcionarios.
Un ciudadano ucraniano sospechoso de participar en las explosiones submarinas que dañaron los gasoductos Nord Stream entre Rusia y Alemania en 2022 ha sido arrestado, informó la fiscalía alemana el jueves.
The attack mostly targeted western regions of the country, the air force said, where much of the military aid provided by Ukraine’s Western allies is believed to be delivered and stored.
Un exsoldado norcoreano de 95 años que pasó décadas encarcelado en Corea del Sur continuará su campaña para regresar al Norte, dijo una activista el jueves, después de que las tropas surcoreanas frenaran esta semana su marcha simbólica hacia la frontera.
Ante la mirada del líder Xi Jinping, China conmemoró el jueves 60 años de gobierno del Partido Comunista en el Tíbet con discursos y un desfile frente al palacio Potala del siglo XVII, el hogar del Dalái Lama hasta que huyó a la India en 1959.
Host of TV show Caught in Providence billed his courtroom as a place ‘where people and cases are met with kindness’
Frank Caprio, a retired municipal judge in Rhode Island who found online fame for his compassionate nature as host of the reality courtroom series Caught in Providence, has died aged 88.
Caprio’s official social media accounts said that he “passed away peacefully” after “a long and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer”.
The fire on the amphibious transport dock ship has been extinguished and its cause is under investigation, the US Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.
Free from the grip that Sean Gardner had during her years of training at an Iowa academy known for producing Olympians, Weldon told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is among the few who survived his abuse and are still in the sport.
Administration officials given legal right to move towards deportation of people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua
A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal.
This means that the Republican administration can move toward removing an estimated 7,000 people from Nepal whose temporary protected status designations expired on 5 August. The TPS designations and legal status of 51,000 Hondurans and 3,000 Nicaraguans are set to expire 8 September, at which point they will become eligible for removal.
Tigres star expected to join NWSL side before Monday
Fee surpasses Arsenal deal for Olivia Smith
Lizbeth Ovalle is expected to join the Orlando Pride from Mexico’s Tigres UANL on a record transfer fee of $1.5m (£1.1m), a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The deal is expected to be completed by the National Women’s Soccer League’s transfer deadline on Monday. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agreement had not yet been formally signed.
Shannon ‘SJ’ Joslin among group who hung 66ft flag on El Capitan as others could face prosecution under protest laws
A Yosemite national park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions that have been tightened under Donald Trump.
Shannon “SJ” Joslin, a ranger and biologist who studies bats, said they hung a 66ft-wide transgender pride flag on the famous climbing wall that looms over the California park’s main thoroughfare for about two hours on 20 May before taking it down voluntarily. A termination letter they received last week accused Joslin of “failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct” in their capacity as a biologist and cited the May incident.
The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is expected to pass a new congressional map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP
Crowds packed vantage points along a major canal on Wednesday to watch a flotilla of hundreds of historic ships sail into Amsterdam at the start of a five-day festival.
Passengers on a flight from St. Louis to Seattle got an unexpected pick-me-up when jazz saxophonist Dave Koz and bandmates held an impromptu jam session in the aisle.