Ashraf Khalil

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  • FBI agents search civilian cars at a checkpoint near the White House in Washington, D.C.Politics

    DC’s attorney general says Trump’s police takeover is illegal and will ‘wreak operational havoc’ in the capital

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Ashraf Khalil, and others
  • Comedian Conan O’Brien walks out on stage at the start of the 25th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Conan O’Brien, Sunday, March 23, 2025, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Politics

    Conan O’Brien accepts Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for humor as Trump moves to remake culture mecca roil arts: ‘Twain hated bullies’

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • Prince Harry smiles on the red carpet at an awards showPolitics

    The Heritage Foundation is pressuring a federal judge to reveal if Prince Harry lied on his immigration paperwork: ‘If he lied, that gets you deported’

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden during the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Biden is gathering business leaders, researchers, investors, and advocates to discuss innovations in women’s health care. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Biden will decide whether US Steel can be sold to a Japanese company for $15 billion

    By Josh Boak, Marc Levy, and others
  • 2024 Kennedy Center Honorees from the band the Grateful Dead, from left, Billy Kreutzmann, Bobby Weir, and Mickey Hart are announced at the start of the Kennedy Center Honors Gala, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, in Washington. At right is fellow Honoree Francis Ford Coppola. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Lifestyle

    Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, Arturo Sandoval, Bonnie Raitt and The Apollo awarded at Kennedy Center Honors

    By Ashraf Khalil, Will Weissert, and others
  • Jose AndresPolitics

    Biden expresses ‘deepest condolences’ to Jose Andres after 7 of his philanthropy’s World Central Kitchen workers die in Gaza

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • Ted Leonsis, Glenn YoungkinPolitics

    ‘Completely pull the plug on Chinatown’: Local business owners warn of DC urban blight if sports teams move to Virginia

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • Kevin HartSuccess

    Kevin Hart is officially becoming an American icon with Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • Panda bear

    China just recalled 3 panda bears from DC’s National Zoo, ending 50 years of history

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • Businesswoman standing alone at cubicle in empty officePolitics

    White House wants to ‘supercharge’ the office-to-housing conversion effort with over $35 billion of below-market rate loans

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • John Fetterman

    John Fetterman says China is ‘taking back our pandas’ and the U.S. should retaliate by seizing foreign-owned farmland

    By Ashraf Khalil, Didi Tang, and others
  • Buildings in downtown San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. California home sales plunged this year as soaring interest rates held back buyers in the costly state. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Cities try to resurrect deserted downtowns by transforming empty offices into homes and creating a young ‘vibe’

    By Mae Anderson, Ashraf Khalil, and others
  • DiCaprio and ObamaSuccess

    Leonardo DiCaprio testifies in money-laundering case on rapper, Obama fundraising and fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Jon Stewart poses for a portrait in promotion of his film, “Rosewater,” in New York, Nov. 7, 2014. Stewart is the latest recipient of the Mark Twain prize for lifetime achievement in comedy, an honor being bestowed Sunday, April 24, 2022, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.(Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP, File)Politics

    Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain Prize for American humor

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press
  • A lone passenger wheels a suitcase through the departures terminal at Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. South Africa announced the discovery of a new variant, later named omicron, on Nov. 25 as cases began to spike and the strain spread across the globe, with many countries halting flights to and from southern Africa.

    U.S. will lift the travel ban on southern African nations next week

    By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated Press