washingtontimes.com / .washingtontimes-com-sports-washington-capitals / Page 8

Over 20,000 cherry blossom-themed Smart Trip cards are being sold at seven Metrorail stations to commemorate Friday's start of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

Russian officials on Friday accused Israel of disrupting its trade with Iran after Israel Defense Forces targeted dozens of vessels at a major Caspian Sea port in northern Iran.

A hidden cloister just a few steps from Rome's Pantheon is a peaceful place for silent meditation - if the millions of tourists who trudge past even know it's there.

Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion turned Hollywood action star whose iron-jawed persona made him one of the defining icons of 1980s cinema, died Friday morning. He was 86.

CBS News is reportedly axing dozens of staffers as Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss continues to revamp the broadcast network.

The Vatican on Friday launched a campaign to encourage divestment from mining industries, saying the Catholic Church should invest its money in ways that are consistent with its ecological teachings.

The Israeli military said it launched strikes against Syrian military positions in the southern Sweida province to defend Druze civilians against alleged attacks by Damascus.

For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.

Iran defiantly insisted Friday that it would deny its enemies their security and that it was still building missiles nearly three weeks into U.S.-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Tehran's top leaders and hammered its weapons and energy ...

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his neighbor that could put even more pressure on Kyiv.