Marissa J Lang The Washington Post

Jane Fonda may spend her 82nd birthday behind bars. Fonda, who has been leading weekly climate change protests called "Fire Drill Fridays" since early October, was arrested Friday along with 137 other demonstrators inside the Hart Senate Office Building, where 50 U.S. senators have offices.

Sara Hinesley, 10, was born without hands. She recently won the 2019 Nicholas Maxim award for her cursive handwriting.

It was about 4 a.m. when his phone buzzed with a message from far away. He read it once, twice, three times before he woke his wife to tell her the news. "I'm a prince," he whispered as she blinked herself awake. "A prince."

The District of Columbia for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst. Rats - the four-legged, bewhiskered kind - have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.

They came from all over, took planes and buses from 47 states, slept at friends' homes or in churches and prepared to be arrested Thursday in Washington, D.C.

For all the concern over leaks at the White House, a more pressing problem might be the sinkhole on the North Lawn that appears to be growing by the day.

At the edge of a sea of shoes Tuesday morning outside the Capitol, a little girl stood teetering on the balls of her feet.

Jane Fonda may spend her 82nd birthday behind bars. Fonda, who has been leading weekly climate change protests called "Fire Drill Fridays" since early October, was arrested Friday along with 137 other demonstrators inside the Hart Senate Office Building, where 50 U.S. senators have offices.

Sara Hinesley, 10, was born without hands. She recently won the 2019 Nicholas Maxim award for her cursive handwriting.

It was about 4 a.m. when his phone buzzed with a message from far away. He read it once, twice, three times before he woke his wife to tell her the news. "I'm a prince," he whispered as she blinked herself awake. "A prince."

The District of Columbia for years has been plagued by a growing mischief in its midst. Rats - the four-legged, bewhiskered kind - have been spotted roaming the streets, scurrying across alleys and eating their way through trash cans.

They came from all over, took planes and buses from 47 states, slept at friends' homes or in churches and prepared to be arrested Thursday in Washington, D.C.

For all the concern over leaks at the White House, a more pressing problem might be the sinkhole on the North Lawn that appears to be growing by the day.

At the edge of a sea of shoes Tuesday morning outside the Capitol, a little girl stood teetering on the balls of her feet.