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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling more than $5.7 million to support the organization's Poet Laureates as well as a national alliance of organizations promoting poetry.

Daniel talks with Harry Jaffe (JAF-ee), national editor of Washingtonian magazine, about the D.C. Financial Control Board's decision to take over the District's school board and oust its superintendent. Jaffe says the Control Board, also poised to take over the Police Department, is building a new functioning government arounbd the old dysfunctional regime of discredited Mayor Marion Barry.

The state plans to phase out new sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

Wenner made comments to the New York Times degrading Black and female artists.

Amazon's hometown, Seattle, has lessons to teach about what happens when the tech giant sets up shop in your town.

John Davis pleaded guilty to charges in a conspiracy to misspend tens of millions of dollars that were intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S.

Criminal groups are increasingly opting to deal in stolen smokes, police say. Some are even more interested in them than they are in illegal drugs. The money to be made is tempting. And gangs are willing to kill for it.

Team officials said they had signed an agreement to buy a 49-acre site near the Strip for a new stadium. The team's departure would leave Oakland with no major pro sports teams.

Voters and politicians alike will be clamoring for quick results on Nov. 3. But in some swing states, where law prevents early absentee ballot processing, that won't be possible.

"We are devastated to have the death of Manuel Ellis become a part of this national conversation," Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards says.