A senior staffer's short-lived promotion in the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee caused a stir Wednesday over his past lobbying for sanctioned Chinese drone maker DJI. Newsweek reached out to Mark Aitken and the House Foreign Affairs Committee with written requests for comment.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on the Collision of Passenger and Military Planes over Washington D.C.

Artists from National Ballet of China perform ballet "The Chinese New Year" with children from the United States at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the United States, Jan.

Friday's debut of new pandas at the National Zoo in D.C. is the latest chapter in a long tale of "panda diplomacy" between China and the rest of the world.

Their presence there may be short-lived, but it puts on full display how many Americans—those who live outside the fiercely anti-China bubble of Washington, D.C.—feel about the government’s ...

Washington, D.C.'s panda drought will end Friday when giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao make their public debut at the National Zoo.

For the first time since the arrival of pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li, the Smithsonian National Zoo opened its panda exhibit to the public on Friday.

Bao Li (BOW-lee) is a 3-year-old male. His mother Bao Bao was born at the institute in 2013 and his grandparents Tian Tian and Mei Xiang lived at National Zoo from 2000 to 2023. Qing Bao (ching-BOW) is a 3-year-old female born to father Qing Qing and mother Jia Mei.

Bao Li and Qing Bao, two giant pandas, are making their public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute on Jan. 24, 2025.

(Florence Lo/Pool Photo via AP) Vice President-elect J.D. Vance met with Han Zheng, the Vice President of China, on Sunday morning. Zheng is in Washington D.C. as one of the many foreign leaders ...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday slammed Trump’s claims that diversity, equity, and inclusion caused the deadly plane crash that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C.—and is drawing attention to the fact that Trump eliminated members of a key aviation safety committee just days before this disaster.

Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight 5342, which will undergo analysis.