Elizabeth Larner

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Melissa takes on new role: Bouncer Melissa McCarthy is taking a leaf out of Donald Trump's book. The actress-turned-director -- who's co-directing her first film, "Tammy," with husband Ben Falcone, also a first-time director -- said, "You're fired!" to an extra on her movie set Monday, TMZ...

Alan Blinder

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

The District is moving a long-running regulatory clash with the U.S. Department of Labor to a courtroom after a series of rulings that threaten to add $20 million in underpaid wages to the cost of a major mixed-use project. The D.C. government's lawsuit, filed in federal court, is tied to the...

Michael Barone

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Policies available to young people, especially for young men, will be much more expensive than currently. The question is: will they choose to buy...

Updated: 12 hr ago

STORY OF ODDS It was only two years ago when 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working for a humanitarian NGO in Somalia. She was teaching communities how to avoid land mines and unexploded munitions when a group of Somali pirates kidnapped her at gunpoint and held her for $45...

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

With the House Agriculture Committee voting to trim the $80 billion food stamp program by $3 billion a year, or 2.5 percent, the New York Times is predictably outraged. "If anything, Washington should be allocating more money to address tremendous unmet needs," the paper's Tuesday editorial...

Nikki Schwab

Updated: 13 hr ago

"It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington." - What Carol Burnett had to say upon hearing the news that she was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center. Burnett will be feted Oct. 20 in Washington, with the gala performance being...

Sean Higgins

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. It will likely OK all five, who will then go into the legislative limbo that is the full Senate. There are plenty of people...

Lisa Ruhl

Updated: 14 hr ago

Roughly 100 Tea Party Patriots gathered outside the IRS building to protest the IRS targeting conservative organizations.

Noemie Emery

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Remember the Lightworker? The "Black Jesus"? "The One"? The one we were waiting for, to stop the rise of the oceans and all of that stuff? How did he come to be standing beside Richard M. Nixon, aka "Tricky Dick," aka "The Shadow," in the great Hall of Blame, charged with massaging the facts...

Brian Hughes

Updated: 15 hr ago

Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday if he had ever received classified information when writing about the inner workings of government.