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An armed home invasion in Northwest D.C. has neighbors on edge. It happened in the AU Park neighborhood. Police say two masked teens with guns walk into a home demanding money.News 4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports.

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise, has died in Singapore. He was 95. Mugabe enjoyed strong support from Zimbabwe’s people soon after he became the first post-colonial leader of what had...

The first black woman to serve as American University’s student government president won her lawsuit against a neo-Nazi website operator on Friday.

Amidst rising global temperatures, state-of-the-art technology allows researchers to determine which trees provide the best shade in downtown Washington, D.C.

Dozens of students were secretly recorded while they undressed at school. Fairfax County police revealed a former drama teacher hid recording devices all over Herndon High School. Raphael Schklowsky is already in jail on separate disturbing allegations. News4’s Drew Wilder reports.

A Fairfax County teacher walked into his court hearing facing a handful of misdemeanors and walked out in handcuffs facing multiple felony charges. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter David Culver reports.

The theater director at Herndon High School in Reston, Virginia, is facing four charges of illegally recording his family’s au pair. The young woman found the camera hidden in her air conditioning unit in her bedroom. Northern Virginia Bureau Julie Carey reports.

An Australian teen known around the world as “Egg Boy” conceded on Monday that egging a far-right senator was not the right thing to do, but said the gesture united a world reeling from a white supremacist’s alleged massacre of 50 Muslims in New Zealand. Will Connolly, 17, gave his first television interview since becoming an online hero among many...

New Zealand joined together in prayer one week after an attack on two mosques killed 50 people and injured dozens more.

As bitterly cold weather descended on the D.C. area, Carly Holencik and Kendall Malinchock, two students at American University, jumped into action Wednesday afternoon.

Carly Holencik and Kendall Malinchock jumped into action as frigid cold moved into the D.C. area Wednesday. News4’s Shomari Stone has more.

The U.S. military on Tuesday announced its deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters. The U.S. Africa Command said Friday’s airstrike occurred near the al-Shabab-controlled community of Harardere in Mudug province in the central part of the country. According to its assessment no civilians were injured or killed, the statement...

Jenny Rodriguez is an American University student with the help of a National Honor Society scholarship. She is the first Hispanic public school student to receive the prestigious scholarship. Karla Flores, reporter for News4 partner station Telemundo 44, reports.

A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto. A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometers) across, the Goblin was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. But it wasn’t publicly unveiled until Tuesday following further observations with ground telescopes.

Three men each were sentenced to at least a decade in prison on Monday for their role in the shooting death of 23-year-old Matthew Shlonsky. Shlonsky was caught in gunfire as he got out of an Uber car near the Shaw Metro station in summer 2015. News4’s Derrick Ward spoke with a member of his family. 

Three men shot at each other on a busy D.C. street in summer 2015, killing innocent bystander Matthew Shlonsky, a 23-year-old who had recently graduated from American University.

Rebel Wilson has applied to Australia’s highest court to increase the comic actress’s payout from a defamation case against a magazine publisher. The 38-year-old, best known for parts in the “Pitch Perfect” and “Bridesmaids” movies, was awarded in September an Australian record 4.6 million Australian dollars ($3.5 million) in damages.

An appeals court on Thursday slashed Rebel Wilson’s record $4.6 million Australian dollar ($3.5 million) damage award to AU$600,000 ($454,000) after a magazine publisher appealed the amount of its payout in a defamation case.

One U.S. special operations soldier was killed and four U.S. service members wounded in an “enemy attack” Friday in Somalia, the U.S. military said — casualties that are likely to put renewed scrutiny on America’s counterterror operations in Africa. It’s the first public announcement of a U.S. military combat death on the continent since four U.S. service members were killed...

A third man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of an American University graduate.