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This video went up on YouTube in March “after careful review from the U.S. Secret Service,” and was tweeted on Monday by Zeke Miller of TIME Magazine.

Fifty-three-year-old Kelvin Robinson was charged in a criminal complaint in Superior Court last month. Prior to entering his guilty plea Tuesday, Robinson declined to speak with reporters outside the courtroom but said,”At some point, I’ll have plenty to say.”

It is unclear if it was fireworks, a Molotov cocktail or some other type of powerful explosion, but something, appearing to be deliberate, went off at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, rattling a Northeast neighborhood in more ways than one and damaging one car.

The 12-year-old sons of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, and the son of Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaign manager turned Obama campaign adviser Patti Solis Doyle, are all in a rock band called Twenty20.

A 20-year-old man was arrested during the weekend for a series of dangerous pranks that led to the evacuation of several movie theaters in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of Washington, authorities said.
Manuel Joyner was arrested in his home in Bowie, Md., and charged in relation to a prank and evacuation in a theater in Largo, Md., on May 24, Prince George’s County fire officials said.

DC Water, in association with the Washington Aqueduct, is employing the help of Veolia, the world’s leading environmental services and technology provider, to implement operational and process improvements at the Washington Aqueduct, a federally-owned and operated public water supply agency that delivers water to DC Water, Arlington County and Fairfax Water.

The program, called Roots of Empathy, was conceived nearly two decades ago in Toronto and has since become common across Canada. Now it has been imported to the United States, amid growing concern about classroom bullying and growing conviction that teaching certain character traits — such as persistence, self-control and self-confidence — is just as crucial for students’ futures as teaching academics.

The bill only applies to legal gun owners who have gone to the police department to register their gun. For illegal guns, if someone accuses you of domestic violence and having firearms, generally that gives the city enough to get a search warrant to search for those weapons.

A D.C. police officer was acquitted of four misdemeanor charges related to accusations he sexually assaulted two women while in uniform and on duty in 2010.

The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher digs up an eyeopening story from the newspaper’s archives about the time when the MPD rounded up 24 suspected prostitutes and “ordered them on a forced march to the state line” via 14th Street.