Washington D.C. Travel News

The Cub Run Primitive Baptist Church was formed by freed slaves and is the oldest African-American church in Fairfax County, Va.

Santa's sleigh couldn't even get you to all the holiday events this weekend, but these ones will give you the experience without requiring speed-of-light travel.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews and President Obama kicked a children's ballet company out of its performing space at the last minute to tape a television interview, turning the "lives of 150 young dancers upside down."

Here's good news for meters and greeters, holiday travelers and frequent fliers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport: The Maryland Transit Administration is starting weekend MARC Here's good news for meters and greeters, holiday travelers and frequent fliers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport: ... (more)

South Carolina received an "F" - along with 42 other states - for its rules governing the personal financial information that state Supreme Court justices are required to disclose publicly in a new report.

Christmas Revels When: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 7-15 Where: George Washington Lisner Auditorium, 21st and H St., NW, Washington, D.C. Tickets: $12-$50 For information: 1-800-595-4849; revelsdc.org/revels2013 “It is so full of people who are really wonderful talent and love to do it ... (more)

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 SECRETARY JOHN KERRY Secretary Kerry is on foreign travel to Brussels, Belgium.

The Newtown Foundation announced Monday, December 2, that four-time Grammy Award winner Carole King will perform at the December 12 vigil in Washington, DC, to honor the more than 30,000 people who die of gun violence every year in the United States.

This December 2, 2013 photo shows a woman reading the HealthCare.gov insurance marketplace internet site in Washington, DC.

That new add-on, too, crashed on Monday while President Obama's chief spokesman was boasting that it would 'improve the user experience' Between midnight and noon on Monday, 375,000 people visited healthcare.gov - a fraction of whom actually purchased medical insurance The flagship Obamacare website continued to spout error messages on Monday, even ... (more)

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLIC SCHEDULE MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2013 SECRETARY JOHN KERRY 1:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry delivers remarks at President Obama's World AIDS Day event, at the White House.

President Obama took care of some of his gift shopping at a local Washington D.C. bookstore.

And we're now being broadcast live on We Act Radio, Washington, DC's WPWC 1480 AM! So if you're in the area, tune in on your actual radio.

A spokesman for the US military, namely Lt. Col. J. Todd Breasseale, is just blowing off a legitimate editor's query concerning analysis of the 'computer generated forgery' posted online by the White House as being mere nonsense.

Understanding the past can help us better appreciate the present and look toward the future.

Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts has received an unsolicited national grant award of $400,000 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

What might have been a simple gift for some was a life-changing trip for a group of English as a Second Language students, who were able to tour the nation's capital earlier this year as part of a grant program that they said enriched their lives and provided them an unforgettable learning experience.

Up and down El Prado, the gorgeous Spanish Revivalist promenade bookended by fountains in the heart of Balboa Park, tourists clutch maps and plot moves, while every 15 minutes the mission bells remind them that time is slipping away and they had really better get going if they want to see all there is to see before the museums close at the stroke ... (more)

A D.C. Superior Court judge set a Jan. 8 hearing for an assault charge against R&B singer and actor Chris Brown.