A weakened but still dangerous Hurricane Irene slammed into the New Jersey shore with 75mph winds today after dumping a foot of rain on North Carolina and Virginia, killing eight people and knocking out power to at least two million homes.

The US National Park Service said engineers have discovered several additional cracks in the top portion of the Washington Monument.

At least two people were shot at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, authorities said today.

Al Gore today announced a surprise Live Earth concert in Washington, foiling Senate Republicans who blocked Gore’s attempt to bring the global warming extravaganza to the grounds of the US Capitol.

I WANT to draw your attention to a new bit of law that is coming soon, and I want to try to urge all of you to shout stop.

A tobacco farmer dubbed Tractor Man who brought Washington to a standstill with a bomb threat was jailed for six years today.

A monument to the 16 million US men and women who served during the Second World War opened to the public in Washington today.

Abortion-rights supporters in the US marched in huge numbers, roused in this election year by what they see as an erosion of reproductive freedoms under President George Bush, and foreign policies they say hurt women worldwide.

Police officers failed to spot what could have been a “dirty bomb” planted in the heart of Washington, a report by US government investigators revealed today.

THREE al-Qaida suspects arrested in Saudi Arabia this week planned to hijack a plane from the southwestern port city of Jiddah, Saudi security officials said, in what appeared to be a plot for a suicide attack.

WHAT does it take to create havoc in the capital of the most powerful country in the world? Anthrax? An orange terror alert? Massive anti-war protests? Another day like September 11, 2001? These days, it’s a disgruntled farmer in a tractor.

Security agencies in the US capital are on alert to a potential terrorist attack after a man video-taped the Washington Monument, Pentagon and other buildings, it was reported today.

The American Government was warned eight years ago that the Pentagon and White House were vulnerable to attack from hijacked jets, a military adviser has claimed.