A suspicious package brought operations at CBS's Washington office to a standstill just before lunchtime on Tuesday. The building was evacuated for about an hour while police investigated the scene.
Don't tell Florida — or CNN, which might go all poop-cruise on this thing once the papal smoke clears — but D.C. has its very own man-eating sinkhole and, well, the people of D.C. are freaking out... even though it doesn't look at all threatening.
Sports talking heads Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post, ESPN anchor Bram Weinstein, and ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon get in a spat about whether Washington, D.C., is a "terrible" sports town.
A post I wrote the other day about the things inherent to D.C. that make it difficult for the city to get hip has a lot of people very upset, proving that the hipness factor of this capital really matters to its residents.
A Washington D.C. neighborhood ended up on a Forbes list of the hippest places in the country, leading to the same old clichéd jokes about the very unhip city.
The morning after a man shot a security guard in the lobby of the conservative Family Research Council, we're learning more about the suspect, who may be charged with domestic terrorism depending on his motive in the shooting.
A gunman opened fire at the conservative Family Research Council on Wednesday, and while police haven't officially released his name, NBC cites "two law-enforcement sources" who said he was Floyd Corkins, 28, of Herndon, Virginia.
The alternative car service, Uber, has gotten a cease and desist letter from the city of Cambridge just a month after Washington, D.C. tried to legislate the company out of its city.
The scary thing about the Washington, D.C., cop reassigned after saying he would shoot Michelle Obama is that he's worked in the president's motorcade.
A heat wave coupled with thunder showers and high winds wreaked havoc across eight states Friday evening, and in the aftermath millions have been left without power and four people are reported dead.
The tents remain, the crowd is growing, and so far the U.S. Park Police hasn't shown up to enforce the ban on camping in Washington D.C.'s McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza.
National Park Police will have a much harder time forcing out protesters camped in McPherson Square now that activists attracted by Tuesday's big rally have swelled the encampment's ranks.
After an earlier standoff with police, Occupy protesters have taken their demonstration inside the House of Representatives office buildings, where they tried to reach representatives directly, with varying success.
Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray wants one of the city's two Occupy encampments to leave, but while he's got no problem with another nearby, the campers themselves don't really want to mingle.
On Thursday, Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide marched along with New York's huge crowds, but uprooted from Zuccotti Park, the movement's focus looks to be shifting toward Washington, D.C.
Anti-Mitt Romney sentiment has proved so stubborn it prompted talk radio host Hugh Hewitt to wonder why "so many conservatives hate him" -- but Hewitt can take comfort in the fact that so many Washington lobbyists think Romney's pretty great.
Iran's latest rejection of the U.S. allegations that two of its agents plotted to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador with a bomb attack in Washington, D.C. claims one of the men is actually a member of an exiled opposition group.
Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, wanted to hire a Mexican cartel to carry out the hit
The reality star thinks Michaele was coerced into saying she's at her mother's house
The Hill surveys the post-resignation prospects of resigned and retired lawmakers
Realtors say Strauss-Kahn's presence won't affect the price of his Georgetown house
Gripes include Chinese handiwork, totalitarian influences, and bad quotes
On Whitey Bulger, electricity in Afghanistan, and honesty with DSK
Man detained with 'suspicious device,' al-Qaeda literature
The morning reading list of the MSNBC host starting with his local "shopper"
Police sweat through heat wave under tyranny of America's anti-shorts groupthink
Members of Rolling Thunder can't agree on whether she was invited to their D.C. event
You may be better off walking than driving in the nation's capital
The Prince of Wales came to talk about the environment, but he's acting like a tourist
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