The Trump administration has backed down from its move to fire thousands of probationary federal workers. The switch means hundreds of local federal workers may now be rehired if they were fired or ke ...

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were ...

The summit sees hurricane-force wind gusts more than 110 days of the year on average. The most powerful wind gust ever recorded by the Mount Washington Observatory was measured at 231 mph on April 21, ...

The violence has raised the specter of a larger sectarian conflict in Syria and stoked panic in the coastal provinces of ...

The new Syrian government has yet to firmly establish a safe foothold in the country and faces threats from Assad sympathizers who supported his decades-long rule.

Vance, 40, put the picturesque Alexandria abode on the market on Feb. 27—almost a month to the day after he moved into the ...

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s ...

The Mount Washington Observatory said the peak wind gust was 138 mph. Video from the observatory showed how strong the winds were; it looked like people were on sleds. The researchers take readings ...

A Syrian war monitor says the death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists to ousted Syrian ...

In 1707, a catastrophic shipwreck occurred in the isles of Scilly, off the southwest coast of England. Between 1400 and 2,000 ...

The new restaurant Sagrada on 14th Street wants to take you on a psychedelic journey by way of an eight-course meal—no magic ...

The only lunar eclipse visible in the U.S. this year is set for the night of March 13. Here's how to see it in Washington state.