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After days of endless searching, flyers plastered all over DC, and numerous media headlines, the four month-old Boston Terrier puppy, Maggie, was amazingly reunited with her family late last night after being stolen out of a car this past Tuesday. If this reunion doesn’t melt your heart, we don’t know …

NJI Media, FamousDC’s digital and creative partner, was cited by the Wall Street Journal for its thoughtful inside jokes on Speaker Ryan’s official website last week: Are you running for president? It’s a question House Speaker Paul Ryan got quite a bit in media interviews this year, always with the same answer: No. …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Trump vs. Hillary this fall. Can you imagine a better set of presidential debates? The passion, the issues, the opportunity for jokes on Twitter – these could be the most epic set of presidential debates in history. Bob Cusack at the Hill agrees …

We said it in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, and in the title of this post, but we’ll say it again. Matt Lira is awesome. Today is his first day back on the Hill via Harvard. He has taken a position with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office. Ya dig?

We posted the best Congressional interview you’re going to see today on Snapchat. Congressman Hurd’s interview expires in 24 hours so you’d better get over to our Snapchat to see it. (Our handle is thefamousdc or scan the ghost below this preview video to check it out.)   Check out …

We could not be prouder that the Supreme Court ruled that it’s unconstitutional to deny marriage license to same-sex couples in all states. Love wins. We’ve created some swag to commemorate the occasion, which you can purchase here.

Props to The Lead for writing the best headlines so far about the Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup. HOW ABOOT THAT? BLACKHAWKS WIN THIRD STANLEY CUP IN SIX YEARS  

We would love to thank Megan R. Wilson at The Hill and Tarini Parti at Politico for the coverage of our Best of FamousDC Political Digital List and party. Wilson wrote in the Hill: With 2016 election season underway, Beltway insider blog FamousDC has launched a database of Washington’s most …

Extinguishing fire WITH SOUND. Amazing. Two George Mason students figured this out. What have you done lately?

BYT put together a great list of cool things to do in the spring, something I definitely needed. During nice days this weekend, I struggled to bring up ideas for things to do outside. Ended up taking a walk, but will be better armed for next time with things like: …

Meet the #OffseasonSundays brunch club, which trust us – should be your new weekend thing. At least until next football season. From 12-3 on Sundays in the basement of Adams Morgan’s Smoke and Barrel, the #OffseasonSundays crew hangs out and listens to themed jams – most recently they hosted T-Pain …

#NATIONAL It’s official, NYE sucks, but it’s over so happy new year!; RIP Governor Cuomo; one person being added to the U.S. every 16 seconds; Bono may never play guitar again; North Korea hit with the sanction stick; bowl week; Couple trapped in closet not actually trapped in closet; Someone …

That feeling when your mom calls you and your pundit brother out on C-SPAN: “Oh God, it’s mom.” – Dallas Woodhouse   h/t C-SPAN

This post was originally written in 2014 to announce the birth of Famous father, Josh Shultz’s youngest daughter, Camden. Now we’re back to update the post thanks to the newest little update to the Shultz family. This time, a boy! Jackson Adam Shultz was born on Tuesday March 21, 2017 to Josh …