UPDATE: 12:50 p.m. -- CNN reports that the all-clear has been given at Senate office buildings after the suspicious packages were removed by authoriti...
As a member of the National Council on the Arts, the advisory board to the National Endowment for the Arts, I was pleased to read about the recent unveiling of the Rosa Parks statue in the U.S. Capitol Building's National Statuary Hall.
He above all would acknowledge the transcendence of profound classical language as symbolic of abiding American purpose befitting the founders' most basic intent even in ways contemporaneously inconceivable like abolition.
Santa Claus was on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, brought there by a liberal Catholic group to talk about the fiscal cliff. He visited the same day Speake...
My alarm clock is pounding in my ears at 5:30 in the morning. Not the best thing in the world for a 13-year-old to experience but it's worth it. Today I am headed to Washington, D.C to meet the President of the United States.
Recently, I went through security for a flight from San Francisco to Palm Springs. I've learned to streamline my security screening by leaving my watc...
"People must fight for each other", said the lady in the elevator.
She and I had on a twelve-story elevator ride together, and I had just been telli...
The 99 percent today announced that they have formed a group -- to be known as "The Sea Party" -- whose mission is to excavate the U.S. Capitol and tow it into the Atlantic.
WASHINGTON -- A Moroccan immigrant wearing what he thought was a suicide vest and carrying a military-style automatic weapon was arrested Friday in a ...
-- This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Nov. 20:
Federal forces this week in 1861 continue to press their blockade of the Southern coast....
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested in connection with a plot to attack the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using an aircraft filled with C-4 ...
President: "Why can't I drive down Pennsylvania Avenue before or after the time that the pizza is supposed to be delivered?" Boehner: "The caucus feels that allowing you to precede the pizza man would make them look weak."
WASHINGTON -- A federal commission is calling for a national museum devoted to American Latino history and culture to be built next to the Capitol as ...
This just in... Charlie Sheen and Sarah Palin caught smoking pot in love nest!
Well, no, sorry, that's absolutely false. However, it would make a dan...
There's only one game left in the NFL season. But there's plenty of political football being played in Washington, D.C. -- and the result of this game will shape the sport and country for years to come.