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Hogan cries foul in FBI HQ fight

The FBI needs a new headquarters. That’s something everyone can agree on, but a nearly decade-long debate over where the next HQ should be: Maryland, Virginia, or DC, is heating up after the feds changed the criteria, devaluing Maryland’s 2 proposed sites. WTOP’s John Domen explains why this process has been stalled for so long…

Charl Brown

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley chats with actor Charl Brown, who earned a Tony Award nomination playing Smokey Robinson in “Motown: The Musical” on Broadway in 2013. They spoke about his upcoming cabaret show “Smokey & Me,” which hits the Weinberg Center in Frederick, Maryland on Sunday. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)

Why are kids getting so sick?

Cold and flu season is upon us but it’s coming in stronger than many expected, and far more severe. Kids are filling hospitals across the country and in turn, concerned parents are doing what they can to get them seen early. We talk to a professor of infectious diseases at University of California San Francisco…

Why are kids getting so sick?

Cold and flu season is upon us but it’s coming in stronger than many expected, and far more severe. Kids are filling hospitals across the country and in turn, concerned parents are doing what they can to get them seen early. We talk to a professor of infectious diseases at University of California San Francisco…

10/25 We are all tired of the lies in the political ads

We are all tired of the lies in the political ads. Vanderbilt University believed that transgender surgeries could be a profit center. The dirtiest man in the world died, stay tuned tomorrow for an interview we had with him in 2013. Johnny Heidt with guitar news. “REFERENCED ON THE SHOW” Sviggum steps down as vice…

How to help DC students make up for learning loss

We’re learning just how far behind our students are after the pandemic. The National Assessment of Educational Progress released numbers that quantify how bad learning loss was in our region. What can parents do to help their students catch up? We talk to the executive director of City Tutor DC, Cat Peretti, about the free…

S3 EP4 – A Cold Hit

As the nineties turned into Y2K Detectives Dean Combee and Joe Mudano were still trying to solve their cases. Years of investigating had gotten them nowhere until the FBI called with stunning news. DNA from all of the attacks had been linked to one man. A fact that floored the veteran investigators who never saw…

Jon Dorenbos

WTOP Entertainment Reporter Jason Fraley celebrates Magic Week by chatting with magician Jon Dorenbos, who was also a former two-time NFL Pro Bowl long snapper for Philadelphia Eagles. They spoke last year when Dorenbos perform a magic show at MGM National Harbor near Washington D.C. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley’s “Clarion”)

FFR GM7 vs GB aka HEINI-CARE

FIRST WE HAD MEDICARE, THEN OBAMACARE. NOW WE GOT HEINICARE! SAME AS IT EVER WAS. CLAUDE AND KEVIN DISCUSS HAVING A GUY WITH THAT “WANT TO” DNA! OH, AND THE PACKERS STINK TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF STINKTIVITY.