The musician, motivational speaker, and partying advocate talks to DCist about his canceled diplomatic trip to Bahrain, why he’s feeling more American, and why the party is still going strong.

In its strongest statement over the ongoing internal conflict in Syria, the Obama administration today took the relatively rare step of booting the top Syrian envoy to the U.S.

Every Monday, supporters of Alan Gross, a Jewish-American contractor who has been held by the Cuban government for two years, rally outside the island nation’s diplomatic mission in Adams Morgan.

This week’s revelation that the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. was targeted for assassination was big news — not only because of the links to Iran, but also because had it happened, it would have marked one of the few times in history that a foreign diplomat was killed while serving in Washington.

President Obama is starting bilateral talks with China here in Washington today, which means residents can expect to be inconvenienced in one way or another for the next two days by the roughly 150 Chinese dignitaries currently in town. Expect additional motorcades and intermittent, temporary road closures in the vicinity of the Ronald Reagan Building and the White House. DDOT says minor delays due to closures should be expected on both inbound and outbound 14th…