News of the Day From Across the Nation
The U.S. Capitol and its office buildings were briefly locked down Tuesday, the second time in a week, amid nervousness over recent shootings.
District of Columbia police said officers were alerted to a man with a gun about a mile and a half south of the Capitol, shortly after 4 p.m. Officers then stopped a person at the intersection of First and D Streets Northwest, which is two blocks from the Capitol and outside the Labor Department.
The 28-year-old transgender soldier imprisoned for sending classified information to the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks also posted on her Twitter account this week, “I’m glad to be alive.”
Manning doesn’t have Internet access behind bars at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, but wrote last year that she dictates her tweets to someone who puts them online.
The FBI says it’s no longer actively investigating the unsolved mystery of 1970s plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Mold deaths: A transplant patient who contracted a fungal infection during a recent stay at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has died, making him the fifth patient with such an infection to die at the health system’s facilities since 2014.
Burning Man organizers are disputing their $2.8 million bill from the federal government — the cost last year of hosting its popular outdoor festival in the Black Rock Desert, a national conservation area in Nevada.
The festival takes issue with the Bureau of Land Management’s discretion over the weeklong counterculture celebration, claiming that the authority has been overstaffing and overcharging without fully explaining the tab.