Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, became the city’s 46th mayor on Wednesday and laid out a path to restoring the battered city’s luster.

A former senior officer in Israel’s Judge Advocate General’s department told CNN last week that there was a growing number of attempts overseas to bring charges against Israelis who had served in the war, but none had resulted in arrest or trial so far.

Virginia’s three special elections this week garnered national attention as Democrats protected their slim statehouse majority by winning two left-leaning districts

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mocked Donald Trump on Wednesday for his suggestion to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” YouTube Video During a press conference held in Mexico’s National Palace, Sheinbaum stood in front of a map from 1607 that labeled the United States as “Mexican America” and the gulf as the “Gulf of Mexico”—nearly 170 years before the United States was fou…

The biennial swearing-in day for members of Congress and the quadrennial count of presidential electors went off as smoothly as a Tesla, but no one could forget four years ago. The post On Capitol Hill, a Day of Celebration and Gnawing Memories appeared first on Washington Monthly .