A Montgomery County mother is channeling her grief into advocacy for autism awareness after her 3-year-old son wandered away and drowned last year. Brittany Bledsoe’s son Ace died July 5. Hold your babies tight is what I can tell you, she said. Just hold them tight. The 3-year-old wandered from the familys apartment in Rockville in the middle of ...

Some of the details included in this story may be disturbing to readers. Just celebrated my 15-year anniversary on Friday the 25th. It was the first, most loneliest anniversary ever, said Laurs Dorsey, whose husband, Ronald, died in November. The couple didn’t have much money or life insurance. She said she got a voucher through D.C. to help cover ...

In recent months, a group of researchers conducted a secret experiment on Reddit to see how artificial intelligence can be used to influence human opinion. Now, Reddit says it is considering legal action.  Researchers from the University of Zurich deployed a slew of AI bots posing as real people and engaging with users without their knowledge or consent ...

A day after the Commanders and D.C. announced $3 billion plans to return the team to RFK Stadium, News4 is drilling down into the agreement the team and city signed. The term sheet is about 30 pages and contains details that will directly affect fans and taxpayers. The document says fans would have to buy the rights to a seat, on top of the cost of ...

Washingtons attorney general sued five Maryland and Virginia drivers for repeated dangerous and illegal conduct on D.C. streets, including a Maryland driver who racked up $187,200 in unpaid tickets in about two years. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced the lawsuits Tuesday under the newly passed Strengthening Traffic Enforcement, Education, ...

Virginias Republican nominee for lieutenant governor is accusing Gov. Glenn Youngkins political advisors of extortion and says theyre trying to force him to end his campaign. John Reid is the first openly gay man to run on the Republican statewide ticket. In two videos he posted online, he went public with details of what he called Youngkins efforts ...

The White House slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost of President Donald Trumps tariffs next to the total price of products on its site. This is hostile and political act by Amazon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a press briefing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Shares of the retail giant founded by ...

A male under age 18 was shot during a struggle with a Virginia State trooper and then arrested early Tuesday morning for outstanding warrants, according to Virginia State Police and the Fairfax County Police Department. At 12:43 a.m. on Tuesday, a Virginia State trooper was notified that a vehicle had fled the scene during a Fairfax County police traffic ...

Hundreds of New Yorkers who have been summoned for jury duty will appear in federal court in Manhattan this week to complete questionnaires ahead of Sean Diddy Combs sex trafficking trial. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who is overseeing the case, scheduled jury selection for next Monday. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.  Rather than tattooed gang members in brightly lit, crowded cells, the inmates at the Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana wear yellow t-shirts and move more or less freely. Some spend ...

A common complaint about going to games and concerts at Northwest Stadium in Prince Georges County, Maryland, is getting there. Having a new stadium with a better transportation situation than Northwest is a low bar to clear, a transportation official told News4. The most obvious question about getting to a new stadium is, can Metro handle it? Metro ...

Plans to return the Washington Commanders to Washington have sparked excitement among many fans and residents and resistance from others. Ward 6 D.C. Council Member Charles Allen has always opposed building a new stadium at the RFK site and said Monday he doesnt think the mayor has the votes needed to approve the plan. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson ...

Its been nearly a decade since Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her luxury Paris hotel. In 2016, the reality star was tied and gagged as a group of thieves made away with millions worth of jewelry, an experienceKardashiandescribed as horrific.” Now, 10 suspects that prosecutors have linked to the incident are going to trial. Nine men and ...

Stocks fell Monday amid a drop in shares of Big Tech names reporting earnings this week. Wall Street is also awaiting any progress on trade deal negotiations. The S&P 500 declined 0.8%, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved 200 points lower, or 0.5%. The S&P 500 was bogged down by a pullback in shares of ...

As D.C. plans to spend more than $1 billion on a stadium that will bring the Commanders back and transform part of the city, some residents are asking: Is now the right time? Amid federal job cuts and expected drops in tax revenue, News4 asked Mayor Muriel Bowser at a news conference Monday why she believes the spending serves D.C. residents. First, ...

A move to D.C. means the Washington Commanders would leave behind an aging stadium in Prince Georges County, Mayland. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday morning that the Commanders have already agreed to pay for a study on what to do with the site that currently houses Northwest Stadium in Landover. Moore plans to work with state and local ...

What to KnowThe Washington Commanders are returning to the District from Prince George’s County, Maryland, in a multibillion-dollar deal to be announced Monday morning.The Commanders have played at Northwest Stadium formerly FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, since 1997. They began playing at the now-defunct RFK Stadium in 1961.Documents obtained by ...

Cardinals will gather for the papal conclave  the centuries-old tradition through which a new head of the Catholic Church is elected starting on May 7, Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said Monday. The announcement comes after Pope Francis was laid to rest on Saturday in a ceremony that saw world leaders and hundreds of thousands of mourners ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., hosted hundreds of supporters at the Capitol on Sunday, sitting on the steps in protest of Republicans upcoming push to pass a budget reconciliation bill they hope will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending. That bill, we believe, presents one of the greatest moral threats to ...

Law enforcement authorities on Sunday arrested a second individual in South Florida connected to the theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noems purse, according to two sources familiar with the situation. This second offender is implicated in a pattern of thefts and robberies with the primary defendant who is accused of the robbery of the ...

Three men were shot Sunday night in Alexandria and are in unknown condition. The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. on the 3800 block of Old Dominion Road and Notabene Drive off West Glebe Road, which is a residential area. News4 was at the scene and noticed police appeared to be inspecting some nearby cars as well as K-9 units. The shooting is still ...

Several people were injured Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway Bridge and then fled the scene, authorities said. The Clearwater Police Department posted on X that there were multiple injuries and the crash had been declared a mass casualty incident by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department due to the number of injuries. ...

The Washington Commanders will build a new stadium in Washington, D.C., returning the team to its namesake city, sources familiar with the plan tell News4. The plan to be announced Monday between District and team leadership will see the construction of a state-of-the-art arena on the former RFK stadium site along the banks of the Anacostia River. ...

The new development could cost up to $3 billion. Details will be announced during a news conference on Monday morning The Washington Commanders will build a new stadium in Washington, D.C., returning the team to its namesake city, sources familiar with the plan tell News4. The plan to be announced on Monday between District and team leadership will ...

The draft-day prank call to Shadeur Sanders that went viral on social media was made by the son of Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich. The Falcons released a statement detailing the involvement of 21-year-old Jax Ulbrich in the incident, which occurred during Day 2 of the NFL draft on Friday. Video showed Sanders, the Colorado quarterback ...