The fire departments in D.C. and Fairfax County suspect the burning smell and hazy sky is coming from a North Carolina wildfire.

Local bartenders share tips for setting fire to your drinks.

August 24, 1814 — the day that the British came to Washington and lit it ablaze. Certainly the most memorable moment of the War of 1812, the Burning of Washington was conducted by British forces in retaliation for Americans’ burning of the city of York (now Toronto) in 1813, and remains the only time since the 1780s that the American capital has been occupied under a foreign flag.