Roseanne Barr wants to be the next U.S. president. So do a lot of other fringe candidates, from one guy with a boot hat to another who bases his campaign platform on the 1611 King James Bible. We review but a small sampling of them. more ›

Sure, Mitt Romney barely won yesterday's Iowa caucuses. But allow us to join the chorus of people who marvel at how they have gained such an outsized influence in the presidential primary process. more ›

The man accused of firing a gun at the White House on November 11 and breaking at least one window on the presidential residence appeared for the first time inside a Washington courtroom this afternoon. more ›

On this day in 1964, District voters cast their first presidential ballots since the city was established in 1800. more ›

Some unknown bandits apparently took a joyride in a truck containing $200,000 worth of President Barack Obama's speech gear -- including audio equipment, TelePrompters and "several lecterns with the presidential seal" -- yesterday. more ›

For the first time in history, the person officially responsible for overseeing all aspects of the operations and activities inside the White House's executive residence will be a woman. more ›

Not only will he be enjoying a cordial breakfast with members of the D.C. Council -- well, unless two councilmembers let the swear words fly again -- but Mayor Vince Gray will be hamming it up with both New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama today. more ›

Via TechCrunch, word is the President is going to start penning his own tweets. more ›

If you're an American history buff, you'll want to check out this video by the Nationals Archives, which details historians' efforts to try and figure out what President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. "Bob" Haldeman were talking about during an 18 1/2-minute gap in a recording made shortly after five men were arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex in 1972. more ›

President Barack Obama, fresh off fielding the questions of Northern Virginians, will hold a Facebook town hall event this afternoon from California -- and he wants your questions! The theme of the event is “Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity” -- hmm, shared prosperity, eh? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to ask him why he felt the need to sell out the District on abortion funding, even though more income taxes go to our city than to his home/office. more ›

On this day in 1961, residents of the District finally gained the right to vote in presidential elections when Ohio became the 38th state to ratify the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution. Yes, that's right -- prior to the amendment's ratification, residents of the District weren't only denied any semblance of local governance, but were also completely shut out of national politics too. more ›

Are you in possession of tickets for Thursday's Opening Day at Nationals Park and holding out hope that you'd get a chance to see President Barack Obama toss out the first pitch like he did last year? Well, you'll have to settle for simply enjoying some baseball during the middle of the day and a free cap -- Obama won't be uncorking his lefty curve this year like he did in 2010. more ›

Given that it's Presidents Day, we thought we'd pass along this neat little maplet from the Scripps Howard Foundation, which aims to track locations inside the District of Columbia frequented throughout the years by American Presidents. Sure, a couple are big copouts (Presidents have frequented the White House? You don't say!), but the more humanizing entries -- like the Potomac River, where John Quincy Adams "was caught swimming nude on more than one occasion throughout his presidency," or the National Press Club, where Harry Truman played piano as "actress Lauren Becall seductively perched on top" -- make it worth the gander. more ›

Our Twitter feeds were clogged last night with several tweets like this one, wondering what the deal was with a huge police presence by the Woodley Park Metro station. But not to fear: it's just Hu! more ›

Good morning Washington. Is everyone ready to venture forth for another day of travel? Just close your eyes, bite down hard, rip quickly and get it over with. And if you're choosing to drive back home today, that band aid is going to feel more like a gunshot to the head, as our area is notorious for bottlenecks. For those of us lucky to have gotten our gluttonous fill of turkey in town, sit back and watch our version of the Macy's parade, as visiting relatives flee en masse and far flung transplants return to the district. more ›

Ouch. The President was playing some post-Turkey day basketball at Fort McNair yesterday when a player hit him with an elbow to the face. more ›

Michelle Rhee kept it diplomatic during her appearance on Meet the Press yesterday morning. But President Barack Obama wasn't so shy in his sit-down on NBC television this morning, in which he took a very firm position on the current status of D.C.'s public schools. more ›

The D.C. Council voted yesterday to move forward on a bill that lends the District's support to a movement seeking to elect the President via the popular vote. The real question is whether the movement has any real traction: D.C. is only the seventh jurisdiction to approve such legislation, joining Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington and our neighbors to the north, Maryland. Notice anything about those six states and the District? Anyone whose studied their recent electoral history will: none of those states have gone for the Republican candidate in any Presidential election since 1988, when three of them went for George H. W. Bush in his romp over Michael Dukakis. The roots of the popular vote movement are firmly rooted in logic -- yes, electing the person who wins the most votes makes some sense, and sure, it could be nice to have Presidential candidates engaged with us instead of simply banking or writing off our three electoral votes -- but we'd wager that it might struggle to gain its footing until, you know, a state who actually votes for Republicans more than every twenty years or so approves it. more ›

To his credit, Gibbs deflected a question that he obviously had no certain way to answer with class, telling reporters that he thought the President "would very much enjoy going," and that Obama could "borrow [his] jersey" if he ever decided to take Capitals owner Ted Leonsis up on his open invitation. Granted, if President Obama is just saving up his Caps plans for when the team gets into the playoffs, I suppose it's hard to argue with that. Playoff hockey is kinda the best. more ›

>> The National Gallery of Art opens two exhibits on American photography on January 18. Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" presents all 83 photographs from Frank's photography book which is heralded as the most important photography book published since World War II. Held in conjunction with Looking In, Changing Perceptions: Reading the Modern Photography Book will display twenty-one books drawn from the Gallery's library to show how the photography book is a significant conveyor of contemporary experience and a witness to historical events. Both are on display through April 26. more ›

Here's a few more reports by DCist contributors from all over the city last night. Spontaneous celebrations erupted across Washington when Barack Obama was declared the winner of the 2008 presidential election. more ›

Finding a newspaper by 9 a.m. this morning was a more difficult task than getting out of bed for the long trudge into work. But while trying to obtain a tangible piece of paper journalism for posterity might have been a futile task, your second best option is the Newseum's humongous online collection - 682 of this morning's front pages, all accessible from the comfort of your desk (or, depending on how late you were out, your couch). The site's moving a little slow with all the post-election traffic this afternoon, so we've highlighted a number of local papers - ranging in scope from large to small - for your perusal. You won't even have to put slippers on or grab some spare change this way. more ›

Video from 11th and U Streets from voteprime more ›

I'm still processing what happened last night. One minute, I was gathered in a living room with friends, watching election returns come in. The next minute, Barack Obama had been declared the winner, his moving acceptance speech was over, and I was in the middle of the intersection at 14th and U Streets NW with thousands of other D.C. residents, yelling, singing, high-fiving and hugging total strangers. more ›

Barack Obama is the winner. Obama, age 47, is the first African-American to win the presidency. more ›

As we mentioned in today's morning roundup, it's been two years since the protests over the selection of Jane Fernandes as the president of Gallaudet University brought the country's premier higher learning institution for the deaf to a standstill. Well we missed this tidbit in the WaPo's District Extra this morning: the school yesterday announced it will begin a formal process to find a new president. more ›