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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