The damages to the restaurant are “somewhat severe” and one firefighter was treated for minor injuries.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is cracking down on the Internet entrepreneurs who simply want to make a few quick bucks off of President Obama’s inauguration next Monday.

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but you’d think they’d see eye to eye on repairing the U.S. Capitol’s dome. They don’t.

After lodging a protest last week, DC Water was informed this week that attendees at next year’s presidential inaugural luncheon will be able to forego fancy, imported bottle water and instead refresh themselves with local tap water.

Dignitaries at next year’s presidential inauguration luncheon will sip on bottled water from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. DC Water wants to know why it got snubbed.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is incredibly concerned about the amount of lead in our reusable grocery bags — so much so, he is calling for an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency and Consumer Product Safety Commission into whether the bags pose a danger.

In what has to be the funniest thing we’ve read today, The New York Times has a profile in their Home & Garden section today of four roommates living in a row house here in Washington, dealing with typical group house issues, like whose turn it is to clean and how to deal with a rodent problem. Of course, the in-house drama reaches epic heights of satiric comedy when it’s revealed who the tenants are:…

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah’s Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named “Snatch” and Mike Tyson is scheduled to…