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Jesse Watters defended Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hazardous swim in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Tuesday, arguing that the polluted water was likely safe because it looked “clean.” “That creek looks clean. It doesn’t look like it is filled with sewage,” Watters said during a Tuesday segment of The Five while unpacking Kennedy’s weekend dip in the creek the National Park Service has deemed hazardous to human health. “I have seen Pete Hegseth swim miles and miles in a speedo in the Hudson River which you can’t even see through. This...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s highest ranking health official, apparently took his grandchildren on an outing to try the waters of Rock Creek, which authorities have described as unsafe for swimming due to bacteria levels. Kennedy, the secretary of Health and Human Services, drew attention and controversy after he apparently posted a brief account on social media of a Mother’s Day outing to the creek, which runs through a federal park in the District. The post on what appeared to be his account on X read: “Mother’s Day hike...

A woman who pulled down police tape blocking traffic for a street festival and then drove slowly through a Maryland street festival Saturday told police she needed to get to work in Virginia, according to body-camera footage of the incident. Instead, she went to jail. She hit a police officer with her silver BMW as she slowly steered into a street blocked off for residents and visitors to enjoy food, vendors and a parade for the Laurel Main Street Festival. In the body-camera footage, a woman drives her silver BMW...

The realization that her county health insurance would not cover the $10,000 to $15,000 it typically costs for a single cycle to freeze one’s eggs moved Fisher to sponsor a recently passed law that offers such coverage to Prince George’s nearly 11,300 employees. Almost 2,500 of them are women 49 and younger, according to county data. A bill like the one led by Fisher is why more women across age, race and income level need to be in office, said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and...

Friday in Washington was the coolest day in weeks, and the wettest as well, but in time it showed moments of spring splendor, with the clouds finally taking their leave, and the sun seizing its chance to shine. Perhaps the atmospheric drama of the day came in the form of its downpours. But their greatest intensity was reserved for the dark hours that follow midnight and precede dawn, and have relatively few witnesses. A close competitor for Friday’s most vivid atmospheric moment came in late afternoon, with the breakup of...

This spring, Lunn’s mother, Lorie Peters Lauthier, is publishing a book of 100 of his paintings, messages and poems from the past decade. He’ll also have his first solo art exhibit, “Nonsense & Hopeful Songs: My Inner Fight to be Heard,” displayed from May 17 through June 8 at Lost Origins Gallery in D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Co-curator Sarah Tanguy, a Washingtonian who has long known Lunn and his mother, introduced Hamacher to them and asked him to consider showing Lunn’s work at his gallery. After seeing his work, Hamacher...

Rosa Caceres remembers walking her 2-year-old son to McDonald’s for dinner on Feb. 8, 2o24, she said in court. A Happy Meal for him and an order of three extra milk jugs. She toted the food and drinks as she pushed his stroller through a grassy courtyard on Kanawha Street in the Langley Park area of Maryland, pausing just before the screeching tires gave way to gunshots. Men from the gold Ford Explorer in a parking lot near her hopped out of their vehicle and began shooting at a group...

President Donald Trump named Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro to be the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., per his Thursday, May 8 Truth Social post . “During her time in office, Jeanine was a powerful crusader for victims of crime,” Trump, 78, wrote in his announcement after detailing her law enforcement background. “Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself.” Pirro, 73, formerly served...

Prompted by a radar failure a week ago at Newark Liberty Airport, and a midair collision that killed 67 people in Washington D.C., the Trump administration announced an unprecedented program to rebuild the nation’s air traffic control system and recruit more air traffic controllers. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and every speaker at a Thursday afternoon announcement paid tribute family members of the crash victims killed in that mid-air collision of an American Airlines commuter jet and Army helicopter over Washington D.C. in January.