Matt Delaney

Upcoming Trump executive order to target D.C. gun crime, homeless camps: Report

President Trump is expected to sign as early as this week an executive order calling for tougher prosecutions for gun crimes and clearing out homeless encampments in the District, according to a media report.

February 11, 2025

One killed in shooting at Union Station

D.C. police on Monday said a male victim was shot and killed in Union Station during the evening rush hour.

February 10, 2025

Love letters to Luigi: Bar hosts event for backers of man accused in slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO

A D.C. bar held an event for patrons who want to write love letters to Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare's CEO in New York City last year.

February 10, 2025

Deputy fatally shoots armed man outside family entertainment venue near Denver

Denver-area authorities said they shot and killed an armed man late Saturday near a family entertainment venue after a woman inside the business was wounded in a separate shooting.

February 9, 2025

Republicans introduce bill to repeal D.C.’s home rule

Two Republican congressmen have proposed stripping the District's mayor and its city council of their governing authority and placing Congress back in charge of the federal city.

February 9, 2025

Former San Diego ‘Teacher of the Year’ pleads guilty to sexually abusing two students

San Diego ex-teacher Jacqueline Ma changed her plea to guilty Wednesday as the county's former "Teacher of the Year" avoided a trial over her sexual abuse of two students who were 11 and 12 at the time.

February 6, 2025

Two charged with fencing stolen goods from South American crews suspected in athlete burglaries

Two men accused of working as "fences" for South American burglary crews, including the thieves who broke into NFL superstar Joe Burrow's Ohio home in December, were arrested Tuesday during raids in New York City and its New Jersey suburbs.

February 5, 2025

Man accused in attack on elderly pro-lifers outside abortion clinic goes to trial in Baltimore

A trial began Wednesday in Baltimore for the man charged with tackling an elderly pro-life activist and beating another so severely that the victim's face was fractured during a random 2023 attack outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic.

February 5, 2025

D.C. Council votes unanimously to expel Trayon White over bribery charges

The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to expel Ward 8 Democrat Trayon White from office, making him the first member in modern history to be removed from the legislative body, after his colleagues said his federal bribery charges became a drain on public trust.

February 4, 2025

Reagan airport workers charged with leaking video of deadly plane-helicopter collision to CNN

Officials have revealed that two employees at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport have been arrested and charged with leaking to CNN surveillance footage of last week's deadly collision of a commercial jet and an Army helicopter.

February 4, 2025

More remains found in wreckage where 67 died in plane, helicopter collision

More remains were recovered Monday amid the wreckage of the commercial jet and Army helicopter that collided last week over the Potomac River, but D.C. officials did not say how close they are to recovering the last dozen bodies of those killed.

February 3, 2025

Trump border czar Tom Homan wants lower standards for jailing illegal immigrants

The White House's border czar said he wants less rigorous, state-level jailing standards to apply to illegal immigrants so that local authorities can hold more migrants for deportation.

February 3, 2025

Recovery teams recover 55 of 67 victims from plane-helicopter crash site over Potomac River

Officials said Sunday only a dozen victims are left to be recovered from the Potomac River following last week's deadly midair collision involving an Army helicopter and a commercial jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

February 2, 2025

MS-13 members get life sentences for murders in Virginia, Maryland

Judges in Maryland and Virginia handed down life sentences to MS-13 members last week in separate cases after they were convicted of brutal murders carried out over social media insults and defaced gang graffiti.

February 2, 2025

Altitude data discrepancies between plane, helicopter in deadly D.C. crash stump investigators

Investigators worked Saturday to resolve flight data showing key differences in altitude between the commercial jet and the Army helicopter involved in the deadliest aviation accident in a generation near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

February 2, 2025

Investigators find helicopter black box, treat jet’s waterlogged recorder in deadly D.C. crash

Federal investigators said Friday they found the black box from the Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday night, while one of the plane's black boxes had water inside it.

January 31, 2025

Olympic hopefuls, vacationers, professors among those killed in D.C. plane collision

Children with dreams of making the Olympics, friends returning home from a hunting trip and an incoming law professor at Howard University all died in Wednesday's mid-air crash when a commercial jet arriving from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River Wednesday evening.

January 31, 2025

Recovery teams expect to find every victim’s body in deadly midair crash; salvage to start Saturday

D.C. officials on Friday said they anticipate recovering the bodies of all 67 people who were killed when a passenger jet and a military helicopter collided midair near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Wednesday night.

January 31, 2025

Airport control tower was short-staffed before deadly collision of passenger jet, Army helicopter

An air traffic supervisor at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport allowed one controller to leave work early Wednesday night, shortly before 67 people were killed in a midair collision between a commercial jet and a military helicopter near the nation's capital.

January 31, 2025

Deadliest aviation accident since 2001 grips Washington as Trump blames Democrats, DEI for disaster

The nation mourned its deadliest aviation accident in decades Thursday, a midair crash between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people in Washington, while President Trump blamed Democrats for enabling the tragedy with misguided diversity policies that he said put safety second.

January 30, 2025