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An Air India flight bound for Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada after the airline received an online threat, officials said on Tuesday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said the owner of a dog found abandoned amid Hurricane Milton was identified and will face one count of aggravated cruelty to animals.

The Long Bridge project aims to speed up railway traffic by constructing a new span over the Potomac River in addition to the existing bridge. The project is set to be completed by 2030. Transportation Reporter Adam Tuss reports.

One of the five teenage girls charged in the beating death of a 64-year-old man in Northwest D.C. last year testified Tuesday that they did it because they were bored. Two of the five girls who were charged in Reggie Brown’s death have pleaded guilty, including Tuesday’s witness for the prosecution. Now 15, she took the stand in the...

A man who was shot and killed at a shoe store in Prince George’s County, Maryland, last week had his 4-year-old son with him at the time, charging documents reveal.

Two big stories are spreading cheer in the D.C. area: The return of pandas to the National Zoo and the success of the Washington Commanders. Team insider JP Finlay compares the two.

Bao Li’s grandparents, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, arrived in D.C. in 2000 and lived at the National Zoo for nearly a quarter-century. Over the years, they welcomed the zoo’s first-ever surviving panda cubs.

Now that pair of 3-year-old giant pandas is settling in at the National Zoo, here are quick answers to some of your most pressing questions.

The Montgomery County Council voted in favor of a pilot program that will use “noise camera” devices in an effort to reduce exhaust noise. Council members said such noise pollution has harmful physical and mental health impacts.

The ex-husband of a former star of the Bravo reality television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” was sentenced to 7 years in prison for hiring, then assisting a mobster to assault his ex-wife’s current husband, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

A more than $25 million renovation of the giant panda habitat and the popular public camera system will offer the bears more comfort and safety.

Dr. Elmer Huerta, the director of GW Cancer Preventorium, stops for one hour a day to host his medical radio show where he gives his listeners the latest health news and answers questions. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports on why the show is so important. 

A Virginia deputy who shot and killed a man who authorities say pointed a gun at a woman has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

Family members of Lyle and Erik Menendez will speak at a news conference in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon.