Here it is, video footage of the traditional Presidential turkey pardon. more ›

Oscar Ramiro ­Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old who allegedly fired shots which hit the White House last Friday, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the President. more ›

Oscar Ramiro ­Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old who allegedly fired shots which hit the White House and was subsequently arrested at a Pennsylvania hotel yesterday, has told authorities that he "hates the president, he hates Washington, he hates society." more ›

Authorities have reportedly taken the man who hit the White House with a gunshot last Friday into custody. more ›

As the search for Oscar Ramiro Ortega -- the man suspected of firing a gun in the proximity of the White House and striking a window on the presidential residence -- continues, federal officials have announced that a task force has been established to bring him into custody. more ›

The Supreme Court announced today that they would hear a challenge to the legality of President Barack Obama's health-care reform act, which was passed in 2010. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Physical discomfort is part of the Halloween ritual. A masked night out involves harsh fabric, pore-suffocating makeup and limited mobility. It does not usually involve the raw ache of near freezing temperatures. But on Saturday, the Washington area was cold and white, met with an early season storm that covered the region in a mix of sleet and snow. 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 ›

After a damaging few days -- including the toppling of a repair crane that damaged buildings yesterday afternoon -- the National Cathedral announced this morning that various September 11 remembrances, including a speech by President Barack Obama, would be moved to the Kennedy Center. more ›

President Barack Obama will be delivering an address on jobs to a joint (well, almost) session of Congress. And you know what that means for us locals -- road closures! more ›

Broken finial or not, when you're the National Cathedral and the President of the United States wants to deliver an address marking the tenth anniversary of one of the worst days in the country's history at your pulpit, you make it work. more ›

This afternoon, President Barack Obama rewarded his staff for their hard work during the recent debt ceiling negotiations by treating them to lunch at Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery. more ›

If you experienced a beefed-up police presence on your way past the Convention Center this morning, don't fret -- it's just for President Barack Obama. more ›

Of course, First Lady Michelle Obama picks the one night that I'm not holding down the fort at DCist headquarters along U Street to take a trip to nearby Eatonville for some dinner. more ›

The Post obviously figured that they had a juicy scoop with this item about Michelle Obama's calorie intake during a trip to Shake Shack this afternoon. more ›

The Obama administration's hands-off approach when it comes to states with medical marijuana programs seems to have come to a swift end, provoking fears that the District's own nascent program will grind to a halt before licenses are even granted for dispensaries and cultivation centers. more ›

In recent months, President Barack Obama has quietly endorsed a path forward for self-determination and statehood. Great news, right? Yeah. For Puerto Rico. more ›

Frustrated by the way the federal government treats the District of Columbia, and wondering what the Obama Administration is doing about it? Well, here's your chance to ask -- Michael Blake, White House Director of African American & Minority Business Outreach in the Office of Public Engagement, will appear at a forum on Wednesday night at All Souls Church in Ward 1 where residents can "voice [their] concerns to the White House directly and have [their] questions answered." more ›

UPDATE: In his address, President Obama confirmed that bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan today, in the culmination of a months-long operation which began thanks to a tip received last August. No American forces were harmed during the undertaking of today's operation. "Justice has been done," said the President. "Bin Laden wasn't a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims." more ›

During last year's mayoral campaign, Vince Gray spoke passionately about the city's lack of voting rights, but also threw cold water on any suggestions that only he should get arrested for the cause. What point would it make if he alone were arrested, Gray would ask, noting that only a massive uprising of District residents would cause people to stand up and take notice.

And that's what happened yesterday. more ›

You know, we're pretty bummed out about the District's lack of voting rights, but we'd never even think about comparing our situation to what's going on in Egypt, where people are dying, journalists are being arrested and demonstrations have drawn millions willing to drop everything for days in order to stand up for what they believe in, regardless of the danger. Of course, we don't have to make that comparison, because Ralph Nader has already made it for us. more ›

The D.C. Public Library is always trying to get more people to take advantage of its sparkling new facilities. It's latest promotion involves teaming up with Madame Tussaud's to bring some of the wax museum's figures to draw people into the doors. The contest kicked off earlier this month -- the idea is to get people to come to the museum, answer a few simple questions about what various celebrity wax figures were doing while "hanging out enjoying all the library has to offer," then win prizes and the such. more ›

DCist photography contributor Kevin Carroll braved the chilly temperatures to bring us these images from the 2010 National Christmas Tree Lighting, in which President Barack Obama and family joined several performers in this annual Washingtonian tradition. more ›

Ready? Go! Here, we'll even get it started. "Vince, we've been here 20 minutes and you're still deliberating over what you want for lunch. With Adrian, he just showed up and blurted out 'CHILI DOG' and next thing you know we're at Ben's Chili Bowl. He didn't even ask what I wanted or if I cared." more ›

D.C. Mayor-elect Vince Gray, fresh off an invigorating 15-hour legislative hearing, is scheduled to start eating lunch with President Barack Obama any second now. The President, who last met with Gray at a Washington Mystics game in August, invited the District's executive-to-be to the White House last month. The meeting is in a private dining room and closed to the press, so we're left curious what the two will discuss. more ›

When Mayor-elect Vince Gray sits down with President Barack Obama for lunch this Wednesday, D.C. voting rights will surely be on the agenda. But even if Gray complains about Obama's inattentiveness to the issue, there's not really much that the President can do at this point to help the city in its quest to be something other than a modern-day federal colony. more ›

President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy at the funeral of civil rights and feminist icon Dorothy Height at the National Cathedral this morning. It was a moving tribute -- not surprising considering the remembrance of such an extraordinary, meaningful and long life was delivered by a man who is known for being rather good at giving speeches. more ›

Following more than a year of more or less refusing to speak up in favor of passing the D.C. House Voting Rights Act, President Barack Obama has finally come out in favor of the legislation. In an official statement today marking the celebration of Emancipation Day in the District, Obama urged Congress "to finally pass legislation that provides D.C. residents with voting representation and to take steps to improve the Home Rule Charter." more ›