The Cardinal

The space shuttle Discovery makes one final flight, on top of a Boeing 747, flying low and slow over much of Washington, D.C. The sight drew masses of people looking to the skies at places like the National Mall, as the AP’s Lee Powell found. Discovery departed just after sunrise and arrived in the Washington, [...]

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A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday at a gas station in Washington, police said. A Tacoma-area family stopped for gas about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. The boy’s father put his pistol under the car seat while he got out to [...]

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Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio says there’s probable cause to believe President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate is a computer-generated forgery. The Obama campaign compared the effort to “The X-Files.” Birth certificate not believed to be a scan of an original 1961 paper document. The document is manufactured by layers. A retired government employee [...]

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Security footage released by the National Park Service from the 500 foot level. The ranger at the top guides visitors to the emergency exit door on the 490 level, which opens inward, and then returns to the 500 level to ensure that all visitors are out. (No Audio) During the 2011 Virginia Earthquake on August [...]

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says a terror threat against the city is credible but not corroborated. U.S. officials said they were investigating a detailed al-Qaida car bomb plot aimed at bridges or tunnels in New York or Washington. Homeland Security recognizes specific, accurate, but unconfirmed threat information. Chatter spiked in the last 24 [...]

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Tropical Storm conditions are expected in Washington D.C. and Arlington, Virginia on Saturday Night. As of 11:30 a.m. EST, August 26, 2011 the governors of seven states had declared states of emergency, prompting National Guard adjutants general to upgrade Hurricane Condition levels and relocate assets in preparation for Hurricane Irene.

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in low-lying coastal areas ahead of Hurricane Irene. Almost 300,000 people in flood prone areas of New York are under the first ever mandatory evacuation for a hurricane in parts of New York City includes all five buroughs — Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The [...]

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The earthquake that struck the Washington, DC area didn’t cause any major damage, but it sent bricks from a construction site raining down onto cars below in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia — a suburb of Washington D.C. that is about 14 miles west of the U.S. Capitol. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt from Washington D.C. [...]

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Who’s the man in his underwear? — a picture from the waist down. Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com first reported that the picture was tweeted to a Seattle woman, later identified as Gennette Cordova. “I did not send it,” says Weiner. But … Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) told MSNBC’s Luke Russert today that he couldn’t say “with certitude” [...]

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The National Christmas Tree is no more. The Colorado blue spruce that stood on the White House grounds since 1978 was toppled Saturday morning by high winds. Winds started gusting over 40 mph about 8:00 a.m. Saturday. The strongest gusts hit just before 3:00 p.m. when winds whipped up brushfires that burned homes, knocked out [...]

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A Washington lobbyist who was the wife of a White House adviser was found dead inside a burning car Monday in southeast Washington. Washington D.C. Fire Department responded about 5:00 a.m. Monday to the 800 block of A Street, Washington, D.C. about eight blocks east of the Capitol of the United States building. Inside a [...]

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NFL Week 15: San Francisco 49er fans get pelted repeatedly by Philadelphia fans at Eagles-49ers game on Sunday, December 20, 2009. EXPLICIT LANGUAGE: Snowball Fight at 14th Street and U Street in Washington D.C. deteriorates when an off-duty detective draws his gun, and a uniformed officer responds to a 9-1-1 call for ‘man with a [...]

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