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Fifty years ago, Washington, D.C. was granted "home rule," where district residents gained the right to vote for their mayor and city council members.

The U.N.'s humanitarian aid and refugee agencies are seeking $5.6 billion to help millions of people in Ukraine and countries that have taken in fleeing Ukrainians in the wake of Russia's invasion.

The former White House adviser was found guilty on two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

This year's Concours features 204 of the best cars that have ever been made. The 67th annual event caps off a week of intensive, obsessive car love in Monterey Peninsula, Calif.

President Biden announced the relief for attendees of the now-shuttered art schools, saying they "falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains of debt."

In Washington, D.C., neighbors complained that Edwin Gray's cigarette smoke came through a hole in the row house basement, according to WJLA TV. The precedent-setting court order is temporary.

Authorities believe there are no survivors in the accident, which happened as a regional passenger jet was attempting to land Wednesday night at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews "Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas," by Peter Wispelwey and Florilegium (Channel Classics).

Police in Tacoma, Washington, tie Washington, D.C.-area sniper suspects John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to a February murder and a May synagogue shooting. that didn't injured anyone. Tom Banse reports.

As archeologists in Saudi Arabia excavated an ancient tomb last year, they were surprised to find what's believed to be the earliest example of dog domestication in the region.