Large columns of concrete rising from the ground surrounded by cranes, bright orange construction signs, and temporary road dividers create driving obstructions that have become synonymous with the Tysons Corner area near Chain Bridge road.

Hundreds of people exercised their right to the pursuit of happiness, as they gathered undeterred by the nearly 100-degree heat to watch the 2012 National Independence Day Parade, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., July 4.

There was plenty of holiday spirit in Washington as the season officially commenced with the First Family lighting the National Christmas Tree.

On the eve of the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, a few hundred people gathered at the Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., to call for what many consider a civil rights dream unrealized: D.C. statehood.

Last week, on Oct. 6, the newly renovated St. Dennis Apartment Complex reopened in the historic Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Washington.

Even though Hurricane Irene derailed this week’s formal dedication of the memorial to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the site has already become a place of pilgrimage.

The Shouters chanted songs in a tradition brought to America by enslaved Africans.

In a show of discontent Senate Republicans boycotted a meeting on Capitol Hill last week on the pending free trade agreements with Colombia, South Korea, and Panama.

The melting of the sea ice cover in the Arctic region has opened the area to more commercial fishing, shipping, tourism, and potential mineral and energy extraction.

The government has influenced the food Americans eat since the 1800s. An exhibit at the National Archives documents the evolution of food in America from farm, factory, kitchen, to table.