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Suspicious Package Found At Capitol

Posted 04.17.2013 | Politics

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...

Back Story: The Rosa Parks Statue

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 04.22.2013 | Arts
Barbara Ernst Prey

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.

One More Step Towards Statehood?

The Huffington Post | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 02.05.2013 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Abolitionist and civil rights activist Frederick Douglass is preparing for a new home in the nation’s Capitol. Or rather, the bronz...

Lincoln: Spielberg's Glimpse Into America's Design Foundations

Paul Gunther | Posted 01.08.2013 | Arts
Paul Gunther

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.

CAPTION CONTEST: Santa Claus Gets Wanded At The Capitol

Posted 12.13.2012 | Politics

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 Trip to Washington, D.C.

Sammy Hilford | Posted 02.06.2013 | Teen
Sammy Hilford

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.

We Lost the War on Terror the Day We Attacked Iraq

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics
Lloyd Chapman

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...

Senators To Meet In Unusual Spot

| Posted 08.06.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff The monthlong August recess is usually a good time for major construction and renovation projects in the Capitol, w...

LOOK: Unusual Corridor Will Reopen In U.S. Capitol

| Posted 07.30.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff The next phase of an ambitious multiyear plan to conserve and preserve Constantino Brumidi’s famous frescos that ...

"Fight for Each Other": Paralysis Cure Research Bill Hangs in the Balance

Don C. Reed | Posted 07.15.2012 | Politics
Don C. Reed

"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...

Tea Party Rival Confronts Congress With Unprecedented Cuts

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.13.2012 | Comedy
Mark Steinberg

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.

Members Of Congress Receive Threats

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 04.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Senate's top law enforcement officer says congressional offices have received threatening letters containing a suspicious powde...

Andrea Stone

Did FBI Thwart Accused U.S. Capitol Suicide Bomber -- Or Enable Him?

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A Moroccan immigrant wearing what he thought was a suicide vest and carrying a military-style automatic weapon was arrested Friday in a ...

Amine El Khalifi Arrested: Capitol Suicide Bombing Attempt Halted

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and ERIC TUCKER | Posted 04.18.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON — A 29-year-old Moroccan man who believed he was working with al-Qaida was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning t...

Capitol Suicide Bombing Plot Foiled

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.17.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Fox News is reporting that authorities have arrested a man who intended to commit a suicide attack at the U.S. Capitol: The man, in h...

Which Congressional Buildings Are In 'Poor' Condition?

| Posted 02.10.2012 | DC

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff As buildings around the Capitol campus continue to deteriorate because of age and the effect of last summer's magni...

Occupy Protesters To Gather Outside Capitol

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 03.18.2012 | DC

By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement will meet outside the Capitol in Washing...

This Week In The Civil War

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 11.20.2011 | DC

-- 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....

DOJ: U.S. Citizen Charged In Pentagon, Capitol Terror Plot

Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics

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 ...

Obama Meets Tea Party Half-Way

Mark Steinberg | Posted 11.01.2011 | Comedy
Mark Steinberg

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."

Kia Makarechi

It's Here! OK Go Debuts Muppets Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.22.2011 | Home

When it comes to feel-good viral potential, it's hard to think of a more potent duo than the band OK Go and the Muppets. As performers on The Gree...

WATCH: Steve Martin & His Banjo To Head To U.S. Capitol On 4th Of July

AP/The Huffington Post | By SANDY COHEN | Posted 07.23.2011 | Arts

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'...

US Panel Calls For Smithsonian Latino Museum

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 07.04.2011 | Arts

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 ...

Friday Talking Points [157] -- Eight Point Nine

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

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...

Biggest Football Game Is One Being Played in Washington, D.C.

Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Brian Frederick

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.