President Obama addressed the attack Tuesday night on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three career foreign-service officers were killed, saying that “justice will be done.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed in unflinching terms the shock and grief caused by the attack yesterday on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that took the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three foreign-service staffers.

The U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three staffers were killed last night during an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

The tragic death of 64-year-old Trudi Rishikof after being hit by a car on Connecticut Avenue last week only seems to get more complex by the day. Well, the details of what happened are pretty clear — she was crossing in crosswalk and was hit by a driver that is thought to have been using a cellphone at the time. It’s everything else that’s complicated.

The Libyan Embassy in Washington, located at 2600 Virginia Avenue NW, has reportedly changed its flag from the monochromatic green rectangle adopted in 1977, a few years after Moammar Gadhafi took power, to the Libyan Independence flag, which had been in use before that time, starting when the country won its independence from Italy in 1951.

As much as we like to maintain an exclusive focus on the business of Washington, D.C., there’s no denying that our city is inexorably intertwined in international affairs. So when unthinkable bloodshed breaks out across the world, our purview often widens, if only for a short period of time. Take, for example, the current state of affairs in Libya, which drew a group of protesters to the White House on Saturday. Just one example of the local response to events currently transpiring in Tripoli, DCist contributor Kevin Carroll was able to capture some powerful images during Saturday’s gathering.