The Federal Aviation Administration needs to take steps to reduce fatigue and stress among the air traffic controllers who oversee 45,000 flights daily, a report warned on Friday. The three-person panel of scientific fatigue experts called on the agency to…

The Washington Capitals aren’t supposed to be here, but against all odds, they are, and Spencer Carbery’s resilient bunch has nothing to apologize for ahead of the Stanley Cup playoffs. By now, you’re probably aware that the Capitals’ goal differential during…

A bipartisan coalition in the House, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), has overcome a key procedural hurdle to advance a $95 billion foreign aid bill, despite objections from far-right lawmakers. The vote now puts the legislation to fund Ukraine…

There are few issues in American politics as fraught and contested as the war in Gaza. While that’s been true for months, tensions have been particularly acute this week: The conflict itself escalated with Israel striking targets in Iran late Thursday, while…

Until recently, I’ve always felt confident identifying as Korean. But this past winter, I visited Korea for the first time in years. In planning the trip, I realized my relationship to the country had always been mediated by my parents. As the date approached…

FORT WORTH, Tex. — For a brief spell last night, the LSU women’s gymnastics team wasn’t performing like a title contender. Coach Jay Clark had tried to avoid overhyping the NCAA semifinal, but as a result, his team came out emotionally flat, he said, with…

In another attempt to crack down on overtourism, officials in Amsterdam are banning the construction of new hotels in the Dutch capital. The policy, announced Wednesday, only permits new hotels in a one-in, one out system; a new hotel can be built only if…

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near miss incident at Reagan National Airport on April 18 that involved a Southwest Airlines jet and a JetBlue Airways plane. According to the FAA, the incident took place 7:41 a.m. An air traffic controller…

President Biden and former president Donald Trump are acutely and obviously aware that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presence in the presidential race is not ideal for their candidacies. On Thursday, Biden appeared at an event with a bevy of other Kennedys, ones…

BRUSSELS — Ukraine was left in a position of anxious waiting on Friday, as NATO allies vowed that a response to the country’s urgent calls for more Patriot air defense systems would be announced soon and as billions in long-blocked U.S. aid finally inched…

More than half of Prince George’s County Public Schools will shift their starting and endings times by up to 15 minutes in the next academic year as a part of ongoing changes that school officials say could ease transportation issues. About 68 percent of…

A man lit himself on fire near the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump was being criminally tried, eyewitnesses told The Washington Post on Friday. CNN chief legal analyst Laura Coates was reporting live on air outside the courthouse…

Former president Donald Trump has long cast President Biden as “Sleepy Joe,” accusing him of being too old and weak to do the job. Now Biden’s campaign sees an opportunity to turn the tables. The campaign has increasingly put a spotlight on reports that Trump…

Presidential elections are odd things. They happen regularly and unfold in familiar ways, but because they’re spaced out by several years, we tend to forget some of the specifics. Combine that with the seemingly insatiable (albeit certainly not universal)…

CAPRI, Italy — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday he has made “determinations” related to a set of accusations that Israel violated U.S. laws prohibiting the provision of military assistance to policy or security units that commit gross violations…

The first thing that caught my eye was the industrial size ladder, towering over the orchestra alongside the tallest music stand I’ve ever seen, and a tubular bell that brought to mind the tusk of a mammoth. Then I noticed the National Symphony Orchestra…

An uneasy calm settled over Iran on Friday as residents took stock of Israel’s pre-dawn strike in the central province of Isfahan. The attack, which was narrow in scope, appeared aimed at de-escalating tensions, analysts and officials said, after a massive…

The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said, once a long-delayed funding measure, which is expected to pass the House this weekend, clears the Senate next week and President Biden signs it into law. The…

Elahe Izadi talks with Aaron Blake and Liz Goodwin about Week 1 of Trump’s first criminal trial, how Israel is dividing Democrats in Congress, and whether GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson’s strategy to approve aid to Ukraine could cost him his job.

Almost everyone loves the ocean. But not everyone agrees on what it means to protect it. The United States is conserving approximately one-third of the country’s ocean areas, according to an early analysis released Friday by the Biden administration — suggesting…