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A passenger looks at a departures monitor at the Des Moines International Airport, Friday, July 19, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Widespread Microsoft outage grounds airlines at D.C.-area airports

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A demonstrator holds up a sign during a march to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility in Lisbon, March 31, 2022. At least 32 transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed in the United States in 2022, the Human Rights Campaign announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, in its annual report ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sunday, Nov. 20. (AP Photo/Armando Franca, File)

Culture clash erupts in Fairfax County as ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ falls on Easter

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

This undated mugshot provided by the Fairfax City Police Department shows Xuan-Kha Tran Pham. On Monday, May 15, 2023, a man with a metal baseball bat walked into the northern Virginia office of U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, asked for him, and struck two of his workers with the bat, police and the congressman said. The U.S. Capitol Police and Fairfax City Police identified the suspect as Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax. (Fairfax City Police Department via AP)

Mentally ill man who attacked congressional staffers has violent history

By Matthew Barakat and Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, voters occupy booths at St. Maria Goretti Church, where five voting precincts are located, as polls open for Election Day in New Orleans. (Max Becherer/The Advocate via AP, File)

Virginia court throws out case claiming Fairfax county broke law over accepting absentee ballots

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2020, file photo, Fairfax County Public School buses are lined up at a maintenance facility in Lorton, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Fairfax County schools to allow more students to return next month

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Virginia board votes to rename Robert E. Lee High School

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic candidates in Miami. Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats are eagerly embracing Obama as a political wingman for Joe Biden, who spent two terms by his side as vice president. Obama remains the party’s most popular figure, particularly with black voters and younger Democrats. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Fairfax County School Board votes to rename Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Virginia

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Gov. Ralph Northam, left, speaks during a news conference on the state's preparedness for the coronavirus at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia reports second coronavirus case

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Legionnaire Charles Webb hugs Gold Star Mother Barbara Bilbrey, center, while World War II veteran Bruce Heilman, and Phil Perlman, left and right, join Legion members to lay a wreath at the Civil War Unknown Monument during the American Legion Riders Run To The Thunder in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 26, 2018. (Photo by Cheryl Diaz Meyer / The American Legion)

Legion Riders ensure Gold Star families aren’t forgotten

By The American Legion

These two undated photos provided by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) show sisters Rotana, left, and Tala Farea, whose fully clothed bodies, bound together with tape and facing each other, were discovered on on the banks of New York City's Hudson River waterfront on Oct. 24, 2018. The Farea sisters from Saudia Arabia, Rotana, 22 and Tala, 16, had been living in Fairfax, Virgina and were reported missing in August. Their mother told detectives the day before the bodies were discovered, she received a call from an official at the Saudi Arabian Embassy, ordering the family to leave the U.S. because her daughters had applied for political asylum, New York police said Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018. (NYPD via AP)

Police: Saudi sisters in NYC since Sept. 1 after other stops

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These two undated photos provided by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) show sisters Rotana, left, and Tala Farea, whose fully clothed bodies, bound together with tape and facing each other, were discovered on on the banks of New York City's Hudson River waterfront on Oct. 24, 2018. The Farea sisters from Saudia Arabia, Rotana, 22 and Tala, 16, had been living in Fairfax, Virgina and were reported missing in August. Their mother told detectives the day before the bodies were discovered, she received a call from an official at the Saudi Arabian Embassy, ordering the family to leave the U.S. because her daughters had applied for political asylum, New York police said Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018. (NYPD via AP)

Tala Farea and Rotana Farea, Saudi sisters, arrived in New York on Sept. 1

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Patrick Korten, former WTOP reporter, anchor, dies at age 70

By The Washington Times

Virginia health rankings reveal disparities among regions

By CAITLIN BARBIERI - Associated Press

Lein-Chandler after 27... Qd7-f7.

Anatoly Lein, Soviet great-turned-U.S. star, dies at 86

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

The FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Headquarters in Washington was built in 1974, and cannot handle all 11,000 employees. A new facility is planned. (Associated Press)

Sanctuary city debate shrouds decision on FBI’s new headquarters

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Stephen Lang's one-man show "Beyond Glory" has been turned into a film. (Stripes.com)

GI Film Festival screens ‘Beyond Glory’ with Stephen Lang portraying Medal of Honor recipients

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Jesse Matthew Jr. looks toward the gallery while appearing in court in Fairfax, Va., in this Nov. 14, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/The Washington Post, Bill O'Leary, Pool, File)

Jesse Matthew enters Alford plea in 2005 Virginia sex assault

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

The $45 million New Beginnings Youth Center in Laurel. (Photo courtesy D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services)

D.C. youth rehab services to spend $1.6M to house youths in Fairfax

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A heavy wet snow covers pine trees as public works director Shannon Clem plows snow along 7th Street in Grottoes, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily News-Record, Michael Reilly) ** FILE **

#closeFCPS snow backlash: Virginia school system says sorry for staying open

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John Michael McDevitt, son of Washington Times chairman Thomas P. McDevitt, passed away Oct. 31, 2014.

Obituary for John Michael McDevitt

By Staff - The Washington Times