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Thousands of anti-war protestors led by Jewish Voice for Peace stage a sit-in at a congressional office building in Washington D.C., U.S., ahead of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit, with over 400 people, including rabbis, being arrested by Capitol Police.
2024-07-23

Daron Dylon Wint is arrested in the American capital of Washington D.C. in relation to the murder of four people on May 14.
2015-05-21

Libyan Islamist militia leader Ahmed Abu Khattala pleads not guilty in a Washington D.C. court to one charge of conspiracy in relation to the 2012 Benghazi attack in which four Americans were killed.
2014-06-28

In an address to the Washington-based Brookings Institution, George Robertson, a former Secretary General of NATO, says that Scottish independence would be "cataclysmic in geo-political terms".
2014-04-7

Environmentalists, citing greenhouse gas emissions and risks of oil spills, including climatologist James Hansen are arrested outside the White House in Washington D.C. in a protest to urge President Barack Obama to reject TransCanada Corp.'s $7 billion proposed Keystone Pipeline extension from the Athabasca Oil Sands in northern Alberta in Canada to the US Gulf Coast.
2011-08-30

A confirmed tornado in Delaware destroys a home and damages others.
2011-08-28

The storm reaches New York City with 370,000 people having been evacuated from low-lying areas.
2011-08-28

At least five people died in Maryland as a result of Hurricane Irene.
2011-08-28

The Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg orders the mandatory evacuation of some low-lying parts of the city, and the shutdown of the subway.
2011-08-26

Hurricane Irene reaches hurricane strength over Puerto Rico, becoming the first of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season.
2011-08-22