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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump mostly stuck to sports and avoided any talk of tariffs as he celebrated the NHL's defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers at the White House on Monday.
President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that transfers the land that includes the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to city control, the next step to potentially pave the way for the NFL's Washington Commanders to return to the nation's capital.
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) -- Jimmy Carter was honored with a moment of silence before the Atlanta Falcons' game at the Washington Commanders on Sunday night, hours after the 39th president of the United States died at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia.
The path for the NFL's Washington Commanders to return to the nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended early Saturday with a postmidnight reprieve.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials celebrated the start of an $800 million downtown arena renovation with a ceremonial sledgehammer-swinging Thursday inside what will be a new atrium entranceway.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials celebrated the start of an $800 million downtown arena renovation with a ceremonial sledgehammer-swinging Thursday inside what will be a new atrium entranceway.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A provision to transfer the land that is the site of the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia is no longer included in Congress' slimmed-down, short-term spending bill that lawmakers are racing to pass before a government shutdown.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser tried Thursday to correct misinformation amplified online by Elon Musk about how Congress' end-of-year spending bill will impact efforts for a potential new stadium for the NFL's Washington Commanders.
The Washington Commanders are another step closer to the possibility of returning to the franchise's old home in the nation's capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team that defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union in Lake Placid, New York, at a period of high tension during the Cold War.