The US Coast Guard conducted a training exercise in Washington DC’s Potomac River near the Pentagon amid September 11 commemorations today, sparking confusion that scrambled FBI agents and led the nearest airport to briefly ground flights.

The Coast Guard was conducting a training exercise in the Potomac River in Washington DC moments before US President Barack Obama and his motorcade crossed a nearby bridge today.

US Senator Edward Kennedy was laid to rest alongside murdered brothers John and Robert on hallowed ground at Arlington National Cemetery, celebrated for “the dream he kept alive” across the decades since their deaths.

NOTHING is more appropriate than the fact that America will today celebrate the annual public holiday dedicated to the memory of Reverend Martin Luther King.

US President George Bush paid tribute to the country’s troops who died in battle today on the Memorial Day holiday.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended a Washington visit marked by talk of cooperation on difficult international issues and strengthening relations between the United States and France.

The United States does not plan to raise the security threat level because of a new tape of Osama bin Laden on which he says al Qaida is planning attacks.

The Watergate office building in Washington that was the site of the infamous burglary in 1972 of the US Democratic National Committee office has been sold.

Robert Redford, singers Tony Bennett and Tina Turner, actress Julie Harris and ballerina/teacher Suzanne Farrell will receive Kennedy Center honours, the performing arts centre announced in Washington tonight.

A CHANCE encounter in 1970 grew into a friendship that became the Deep Throat source that helped bring down Richard Nixon, reporter Bob Woodward wrote in The Washington Post yesterday.

Elton John is to be honoured by one of America’s leading arts institutions.

HURRICANE Isabel’s flight across the mid-Atlantic was swift, but its devastation will take time to overcome.

Hurricane Isabel is closing in on the North Carolina coast with 105 mph winds and the potential for up to a foot of rain, threatening to cause ruinous flooding across the region.

Galvanised by the Anglo-American attack on Iraq, thousands of anti-war activists around the world took to the streets yesterday.

US and British ground troops invaded southern Iraq from Kuwait tonight in a gradual escalation of the war to drive Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power.

The victims’ families and the country still grieve, but the once-charred and jagged western flank of the Pentagon no longer looks much like the scene of an American tragedy.

White House officials and congressional leaders agreed early Friday to final details of a $40bn package to combat terrorism and recover from attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Fighter jets are patrolling the skies above Washington after a jet hijacked