In his new book, author Shahan Mufti recounts in rich detail the complex and intertwined local and international events that led to the 1977 three-day siege by a dozen Muslim gunmen.

Just before the Juneteenth holiday, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced the bill to commemorate them.

The first president was, at one point, America’s biggest whiskey distiller.

Evidence is growing that a pre-Civil War African American burial ground is buried beneath a historic street full of million-dollar townhouses. But that’s just one theory.

Charles “Rags” Warring, Emmitt “Little Man” Warring, and Leo Warring were involved in the city’s underbelly of organized crime in the early and mid 20th century, including bootlegging and a gambling venture worth millions of dollars at the time.

President Woodrow Wilson enlisted the flock to keep the grass trimmed during World War I.

The new marker was installed at Kalorama Park in mid-November.

Sure, NPC hosts press conferences… but did you know it also has its own zip code and holds D.C. liquor license #1?

The real version of the papal tiara donned by Jude Law lives in a glass case at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

“Since the accomplishment of its purpose, the breaking of all known records for this section of the country, it is to be hoped the mercury will take some pity on suffering humanity and come from its hiding place in the bottom of the bulb.”