{"id":19996,"date":"2026-03-14T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/faa-lifts-ground-stop-at-airports-in-dc-baltimore-delays-persist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:22:10","slug":"faa-lifts-ground-stop-at-airports-in-dc-baltimore-delays-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/faa-lifts-ground-stop-at-airports-in-dc-baltimore-delays-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA lifts ground stop at airports in DC, Baltimore; delays persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ground stop&nbsp;has been lifted&nbsp;at three major airports in the greater Washington, D.C., area&nbsp;after&nbsp;reports of a &ldquo;strong odor&rdquo; at the Potomac air traffic control facility&nbsp;halted runway traffic for nearly two hours on Friday night, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. &ldquo;Firefighters from Fauquier County and Prince William County confirm there is no danger to air&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5783852-washington-dc-airports-ground-stop\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground stop&nbsp;has been lifted&nbsp;at three major airports in the greater Washington, D.C., area&nbsp;after&nbsp;reports of a &ldquo;strong odor&rdquo; at the Potomac air traffic control facility&nbsp;halted runway traffic for nearly two hours on Friday night, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. &ldquo;Firefighters from Fauquier County and Prince William County confirm there is no danger to air&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}