Credit: Zienaq Azzam, the 2022 Poet Laureate for the city of Alexandria, Virginia. (Courtesy, City of Alexandria/Jeff Norman)

Alexandria’s poet laureate, a child of Palestinian refugees, creates potent art from the devastation in Gaza

WTOP’s Beer of the Week: Brasserie Cantillon Saint Lamvinus Lambic

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Whelan says his incarceration ‘needs to be resolved now’

The Hunt: Iran just days away from becoming a nuclear power

Political pressure builds on House Speaker Johnson as Congress returns

Israel attacked aid workers ‘systematically, car by car,’ charity founder says, as fury builds over deadly strike