Sen. Bernie Sanders' American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would take 50% equity from large AI firms to seed a public fund that backers say could pay roughly $1,000 per person.

The Pentagon awarded Oracle an up‑to‑10‑year enterprise software agreement worth nearly $7 billion to centralize on‑premises licensing across DoD, the Coast Guard and intelligence agencies.

A SPECT‑CT scan using 99mTc‑maraciclatide lit up early endometriosis in a small trial; a larger phase 3 with U.K. and U.S. cohorts is planned.

A D.C. firefighter was seriously injured after being struck by a ladder truck at a Southwest D.C. blaze and was airlifted to a trauma center. The department and police are investigating.

A D.C. nonprofit says Lindt misled U.S. consumers about its cocoa‑sourcing and child‑labor monitoring programs. The suit seeks an injunction to force transparency about farm practices.

Initial jobless claims fell to 187,000 for the week ending July 18, keeping layoffs at historically low levels and shaping expectations for July’s jobs report.

The private Cosmos Club is under contract to buy a Dupont Circle building and plans to convert it into a mixed‑use arts space with a public café.

Charles County detectives arrested two Waldorf men after recovering more than 100 bronze memorial vases stolen from Trinity Memorial Gardens; officials say many were recovered at a scrap yard.

Water seeped into signal equipment outside Van Ness, disrupting Red Line service Wednesday and forcing offloads at Dupont Circle as crews worked to restore service.

A new GOP bill would force Congress to sign off on any D.C. tax or fee increase within 60 days, reversing the usual presumption of local control and prompting sharp pushback from city leaders.

The EEOC voted to publish a proposed rule to end annual EEO-1 filings that list employees by race and sex. Civil-rights groups warn the change would make systemic disparities harder to see.

A 6-year-old was pulled from a D.C. camp pool and rushed to Children’s National after counselors found the child unresponsive while the lifeguard was on a break.

HUD has frozen further disaster‑recovery funds to the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority after auditors and prosecutors flagged weak fraud controls and alleged corruption tied to post‑2017 hurricane money.