Trump, Washington and military parade
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The poem, of course, is “Casey at the Bat,” but it seemed unlikely that any sports failure caused the gloomy skies above the capital on Sunday. Even though the local major league baseball team, the Washington Nationals, lost again.
A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised the email accounts of several journalists and was most likely the work of a foreign government, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Roughly 60 demonstrators were arrested on Friday outside the U.S. Capitol after breaching a police line of bike racks and running toward steps leading to the Capitol Rotunda.
The "No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance" is planned to "reject corrupt, authoritarian politics in the United States," organizers say.
Coinciding with Trump's 79th birthday, the parade will feature tanks, bands and thousands of troops in honor of the Army’s 250th anniversary celebration.
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At 3:10 p.m. on Sunday, the National Weather Service released an updated flash flood warning in effect until 6:15 p.m. for Greene and Washington counties.
The Washington Nationals fell to an agonizing 4-3 defeat in their game against the Miami Marlins on Saturday. But it was not all doom and gloom for the Nationals and their fans as the team’s “top paw-spect” made his long-awaited MLB debut.
The Wall Street Journal reports that on Sunday, an internal memo from executive editor Matt Murray notified employees about an attack on on its email system, possibly by a foreign government. It also cites unnamed sources saying that the Microsoft accounts targeted included reporters on the national security and economic policy beats including some who write about China.
On Saturday at 8:28 p.m. the National Weather Service released a flood watch in effect until 11 p.m. for Washington County.