The Department of Labor, Politico reports, is currently investigating whether workers at Donald Trump’s high-profile renovation of Washington, D.C.’s Old Post Office into a luxury hotel are being paid less than federal law mandates.

Earlier this month, Jonathan Wienke, an analyst in the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, was arrested after carrying a gun, a knife, an infrared camera, pepper spray, and handcuffs into the agency’s headquarters. Now, court filings show, federal prosecutors are investigating whether Wienke was planning an attack on senior DHS officials.

On Monday, Montgomery Blair Sibley, a former attorney for the so-called D.C. Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, filed an application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to release records pertaining to her escort service, because those records “could be relevant” to the 2016 presidential election.

Now that blogs are dead and everything is apps, even the great American political tradition of Capitol Hill staffers anonymously gossiping about each other (and the interns) has had to adjust: Enter Cloakroom—Yik Yak for Congress.

A total of 19 people died in weather-related incidents this weekend, after an enormous blizzard swept across the eastern half of the U.S.

The story of the Virginia police detective who led a contentious teen sexting investigation last year has unraveled in a spectacularly depressing way. The detective, 39-year-old David E. Abbott Jr. of the Manassas Police Department, shot and killed himself yesterday as police attempted to arrest him for child molestation.

An armed person put a stretch of blocks near the White House on high alert Monday, after she barricaded herself in a building in the wee hours of the morning.

Two workers in the U.S. Capitol and Senate cafeteria say they’ve been “relentlessly harassed and intimidated by our bosses” for trying to organize a union. Perhaps their customers could help them out?

I went to the White House this week, for the first and likely last time. Here is what I saw.

What’s a thirsty millionaire to do when he’s fiending for a Campari and there’s nary a bar in sight? Ignoring the fact that this happened in Georgetown, a college town literally lined with bars, the answer for one PR exec was apparently clear: break into a fancy restaurant and steal $100 worth of shitty booze.

What is “privilege?” Privilege is when a 23 year-old can turn his time working at a falafel takeout joint as a teenager into a Washington Post think piece about challenging his own privilege and not think the world will say, “Hey, fuck off.”

CNN reports that there’s more than pizza crust linking Darron Wint to a gruesome quadruple murder committed last month inside a Washington D.C. mansion. The blood from at least one victim was found on Wint’s shoes when he was arrested, according to law enforcement sources who spoke with the news station.

The housekeeper for the family found murdered after their house was set on fire Thursday says she noticed something was definitely amiss in the days leading up to their deaths.

At least three adults and one child were killed Thursday in what police are calling a suspicious blaze that erupted just blocks from Joe Biden’s home.

Have you heard the latest absolutely scandalous DC media gossip? It seems that some less than upstanding publicity hounds attempted to sully the august White House Correspondents Dinner event with corporate whoredom. Can you imagine?

A Secret Service officer was arrested today in Washington D.C., according to MSNBC and CNN.

Over the last week we've been writing about a series of deeply suspicious emails sent by former journalist and Clinton family adviser-fixer-creep Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal is well-known in political and media circles—but despite his apparent power, he's unknown outside of D.C. and New York. Let's get to know Hillary's private email spook, and his shadowy under-the-table intelligence operations.

D.C. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton was caught on video this week hitting another car while doing some nonvoting approximation of "parking" before strolling away from the disturbing scene like a boss with her head held high.

The entire fate of Washington, DC's legalized marijuana program apparently rests on the statutory definition of one word: "enactment."

A woman died and at least 80 other passengers were reportedly injured Monday afternoon when a D.C. metro station suddenly filled up with smoke.