WASHINGTON -- The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol is open again following a brief closure while police inspected a white powder found there. Sgt. Kimberl...
Robin Bronk | Posted 04.03.2012
Whether one agrees with the views expressed in Fox's films or not, we should all agree that citizens have a right to know and tell other citizens what our elected officials are doing. We shouldn't be arresting documentary filmmakers in America for filming public hearings.
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Posted 01.04.2012
By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff The Architect of the Capitol and the Capitol Police, two entities already facing a tightened budget environment, ar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- The third planned occupation of the nation's capital, Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue, has an unusually restrictive set of rules. The prot...
HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 12.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- Linda Evans cried Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol building as she described the unemployment crisis and her own struggle to find work...
AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 11.29.2011
BOSTON — Model airplanes are suddenly on the public's radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested...
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 09.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- Just over six months after the Jan. 8 massacre in Tucson that killed six people and injured Rep. Gabrielle GIffords (D-Ariz.), members o...
AP/The Huffington Post | By SANDY COHEN | Posted 07.23.2011
LOS ANGELES -- Steve Martin and his banjo are taking on the U.S. Capitol on July 4. The 65-year-old entertainer is set to perform from the Capitol'...
AP | SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A passenger plane briefly lost radio contact with air traffic controllers when the pilot turned to the wrong frequency as he approa...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's Congress is in the midst of a communications transformation, and suffers from public wrath and bitter internal division. The world's most powerful legislature is in trouble. Putting today's Republicans in charge will make it worse.
McClatchy | Rob Hotakainen | Posted 05.25.2011
A California Republican congressman wants to do a little writing on the walls of Washington's newest federal building. If Rep. Dan Lungren gets his wa...
AP/Huffington Post | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Capitol Police officer shot a 35-year-old man at New Jersey Avenue NW and C Street NW, blocks from the Capitol, according to...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The 99-year-old Capitol Power Plant, which provides steam for heat and hot water in congressional buildings, is ending its distinct...
Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
We've had enough threats from our sworn enemies -- we don't need them from Detroit executives. These CEOs and their boards of directors must go, whether by car or jet or skateboard, they must go.
AP | By LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 02.24.2012