Washington Spirit Hopes to Draw More Soccer Fans at Audi Field

by Athena Liu | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured, Sports

WASHINGTON – Despite a dismal season and early elimination from the National Women’s Soccer League playoffs, the Washington Spirit hopes holding their last home game at the new D.C. United Audi Field will lure more fans to their sport. The Washington team, whose home...

Anime fans in D.C. celebrate East Asian pop culture

by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu & Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured, Living

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of comics and animations fans, wearing the outfits of beloved characters like magic girl Cardcaptor Sakura and soldiers fighting giants in Attack on Titans, gathered in Washington over the weekend to celebrate Japanese manga and...

University of Maryland Claims Responsibility for Football Player McNair’s Death

by Athena Liu & Gabrielle Phifer | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured, Sports

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland President Wallace Loh on Tuesday admitted that the football team’s training staff misdiagnosed and incorrectly treated player Jordan McNair and accepted responsibility for McNair’s death in spring. At a press conference, Loh...

US import prices flat in July as dollar grows stronger

by Minghe Hu | Aug 14, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON- U.S. import prices remained flat in July as rising fuel prices were offset by a drop in other products’ prices caused by a strong dollar in the market, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. However, import prices were up 4.8 percent from the same month...

Counterprotesters waited for groups of Unite the Right that never showed up

by Basma Amer & Loumay Alesali | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured, Living

WASHINGTON  — About two dozen white nationalists rallied Sunday near the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riot, while about a thousand counterprotesters yelled at them from across the wide expanse of Lafayette Park. The National...

Two dozen white nationalists rally for Unite the Right, while more than 1,000 protested against them

by Holly Honderich & Juliette Rocheleau | Aug 12, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – About 1,000 protesters gathered a few blocks from a white nationalist rally Sunday, far outnumbering the fewer than two dozen Unite the Right activists who walked to Lafayette Park near the White House one year after the deadly riots in Charlottesville,...