Metro Inspector General says mechanics treated faulty wheels as a warranty issue, not a safety issue.

Across the region, in offices and classrooms, in homes miles from the Capitol and on the steps of the Supreme Court, locals followed the hearing.

Members of Congress will convene a hearing at an abandoned warehouse in Southeast D.C. tomorrow, where a local legislator will ask that it be used to create a market and restaurant.

Members of Congress debated the merits of the Frank Gehry-designed Eisenhower Memorial yesterday.

Later this month the D.C. Council will debate legislation that would ease regulations and restrictions on motorized bicycles.

A pair of experts hired by prosecutors say that accused killer Albrecht Muth isn’t really crazy, but merely a crazy good con-man.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton doesn’t think too highly of some of the city’s architecture, she said at a congressional hearing yesterday.

At a congressional hearing tomorrow, D.C. Director of Planning Harriet Tregoning will ask that the 1910 Height Act be amended so that buildings can more flexibly use their rooftops.

The House will hold a hearing next week on whether or not to relax D.C.’s longstanding height limits on buildings.

On The Rachel Maddow Show yesterday, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called a congressional bill that would ban abortions in D.C. after 20 weeks a “straight-out cowardly case of bullying.”