Sourdough is a fickle beast. Feed the starter just right and you’ll wind up with a remarkable product, airy and delicately tangy. Botch the process slightly and you’re left with a dull, depressing dough. At the Little Grand, a “pizza bar” tucked into a small…

The University of Southern California announced Monday that it will not have its valedictorian, who is Muslim and pro-Palestinian, speak at its commencement because officials worry about keeping the event safe amid fears of threats. USC Provost Andrew Guzman…

Oklahoma investigators have recovered two bodies in their search after the “suspicious disappearance” of two Kansas women who were on their way to collect children from a birthday party. Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39 went missing March 30 while…

LONDON — Britain is poised to launch a world-leading project to create a “smoke free generation” by raising the age to legally buy cigarettes each year. The legislation would ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2009 — and then every year the legal…

BRUSSELS — Police on Tuesday threatened to shut down a gathering on “national conservatism” that was underway in the Belgian capital, giving Europe’s hard-right elites a further opportunity to rail against cancel culture and Brussels overreach. The event…

The U.S. government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud each year, according to a rough, first-of-its-kind federal estimate released Tuesday. But the author of that report — the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office — simultaneously…

When asked what’s the go-to recipe I cook for dinner, the answer is always some version of the following: I throw some chicken and whatever sturdy vegetables I have around on a sheet pan, toss them with a mix of spices and seasonings that are calling my name…

The DMV has a few big musical celebrations every year: Broccoli City for hip-hop fans, Project Glow for ravers, Annapolis Baygrass for aging hippies. But for the region’s indie crowd — and, increasingly, its pop lovers — there is no greater weekend than that…

The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge today to a federal law prosecutors used to charge more than 350 people who were part of the pro-Donald Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. More than 100 rioters have been convicted and sentenced…

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For the Washington Capitals, it all comes down to Game 82. If they beat the Philadelphia Flyers tonight at the Wells Fargo Center — in regulation, overtime or the shootout — they’ll return to the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Capitals, Flyers, Detroit Red Wings…

Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating new jobs at its Northern Virginia headquarters that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, the company confirmed, underscoring how a project that it had initially pitched as an economic jolt is…

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Sam Lee, a leader of the Connecticut Library Association, heads to work these days torn between hope and fear. She’s encouraged because legislators in her state proposed a bill this year making it harder for school boards to ban library books. But she’s fearful…

Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from “My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories” by Joan Nathan (Knopf, 2024). My late husband, Allan, and I hosted our first Passover Seder in 1980. At the time, my eldest daughter was only 2 years old…

“Beauty is its own excuse for Being,” Emerson once wrote. In contrast, an interesting, unusual or disturbing experience is not always its own excuse for a memoir. The venerable Salman Rushdie is a vibrant and vigorous (if uneven) novelist, but his latest…

Four years after the coronavirus pandemic denied the Nationals and their fans a proper, season-long victory lap following the franchise’s first World Series title, the team is leaning into its celebration of its 2019 championship with the Houston Astros in…

Severe weather season is in full swing, and that comes with the risk of a few tornadoes, perhaps significant ones, on Tuesday. The anticipated tornado event Monday over the Great Plains largely fell flat, but after a few overnight tornadoes in Kansas, more…

Assuming you’re on top of things, you’ve filed your taxes (the deadline was April 15 for most Americans). Congrats! Even better is if you were lucky enough to get a tax refund for a little extra spending money. Sure, the fiscally responsible thing to do with…

What’s 2024’s hottest product? According to TikTok, there is only one answer: industrial-grade glycine from China. Yes, you read that right. A Chinese manufacturer of the amino acids, Donghua Jinlong, has found unexpected online fame, with its earnest marketing…