
Ashraf Khalil
Writer and Reporter at Associated Press
Journalist at Freelance
Reporter, Associated Press DC Bureau. SEND ME STORY TIPS!! Signal: Ashraf.919 Author of Liberation Square, published January 2012 https://t.co/ra3y7CUqw6
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1 week ago |
argus-press.com | Ashraf Khalil
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the nation's capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event — Saturday's military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump. “We’re preparing for an enormous turnout,” said Matt McCool of the Secret Service's Washington Field office, who said more than 18 miles of “anti-scale fencing” would be erected and “multiple drones” would be in the air.
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2 weeks ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Ashraf Khalil
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the nation's capital cleans up from the culmination of World Pride this past weekend, focus now shifts to a very different massive event — Saturday's military parade to honor the 250th birthday of the Army and the 79th birthday of President Donald Trump. “We’re preparing for an enormous turnout,” said Matt McCool of the Secret Service's Washington Field office, who said more than 18 miles of “anti-scale fencing” would be erected and “multiple drones” would be in the air.
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2 weeks ago |
stuff.co.nz | Seung Min Kim |Michael Koziol |Ashraf Khalil |Amber Schultz
From the Griffith Observatory, a landmark perched on a hilltop 300 metres above sea level, Joe and Jolene McGuire had a prime view of this vast city, and they couldn’t see what their friends and family back home in Nebraska were so worried about.
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2 weeks ago |
argus-press.com | Ashraf Khalil
WASHINGTON (AP) — David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed the nation's capital as “the big city” where he could finally embrace his true self. He came out of the closet here, got a job at the National Endowment for the Arts where his boss was a gay Republican, and “lost my virginity in D.C. on August 27, 1980,” he says, chuckling.
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2 weeks ago |
chronicle-tribune.com | Ashraf Khalil
WASHINGTON (AP) — David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.” He was fresh out of college, raised in Richmond, Virginia, and had long viewed the nation's capital as “the big city” where he could finally embrace his true self. He came out of the closet here, got a job at the National Endowment for the Arts where his boss was a gay Republican, and “lost my virginity in D.C. on August 27, 1980,” he says, chuckling.
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