Turns out, our KFC-loving president does have a food following. As an ode to his flip-flop tariff trade tendencies known as TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”) — an acronym coined by Financial Times in May — a food truck celebrating Taco Tuesday was an apparent lunchtime hit on Capitol Hill yesterday. The Democratic National Committee…
Just four months into the job, and just days after he took that no-no Mother’s Day dip into contaminated Rock Creek Park, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, May 14. During his testimony on the White House’s budget request, he was grilled from…
When chef Elias Taddesse pivoted from working at high-end French restaurants in New York City to exploring Ethiopian flavors in his own kitchen, he knew he had to open his first shop in the nation’s capital. “What’s a better place to do it than D.C., with the biggest Ethiopian population next to Ethiopia,” he explained….
“What we do here is like an East meets West cuisine,” says Henji Cheung, the James Beard-nominated co-owner and executive chef at Queen’s English in Washington D.C. The Hong Kong-influenced cuisine is created “with Asian ingredients, but with European techniques,” reflecting Cheung’s background of growing up in the British territory and working in Italian and…
All week, residents of Washington, D.C., watched the shutdown debate in Congress with anxiety and anger, as one section of the continuing resolution keeping the government open would force on the city an immediate $1.1 billion budget cut. But on Friday afternoon, shortly after the resolution was passed, the crisis for the District of Columbia…
The Jan. 29 collision of a passenger jet and a military helicopter close to Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport was the worst in nearly a quarter of a century, taking 67 lives. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, and a combination of flawed communications and congested airspace in the area appear to…
Following the midair crash of an American Airlines passenger plane with a Black Hawk military helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen galvanized local chefs to feed the flurry of first responders conducting search and recovery operations on Thursday. They were joined by a riverboat cruise, Hornblower Group’s City…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about Wednesday’s deadly midair collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Eagle flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., Jan. 30, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday…
A view of emergency response looking from Arlington, Va., south of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, across the Potomac River toward the District of Columbia, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Alex Brandon | AP An American Airlines regional jet with 64 people aboard collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter near Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington…
