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The city council is the first in the country to prohibit a promising innovation such as cleaning wipes. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Beltway Confidential

Time to flush DC’s ban on flushable wipes

Hiram Tanner · January 26, 2017 12:00 am

In this May 22, 2014 photo, patrons enter an Olive Garden Restaurant in Short Pump, Va. Olive Garden is hurting itself by piling on too many breadsticks, according to an investor that's disputing how the restaurant chain is run. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Olive Garden investor: Back off on the breadsticks

Candice Choi · September 12, 2014 5:04 pm

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell says the federal government does not have the power to stop states from allowing people to use welfare benefits to buy marijuana. (iStock image)

HHS: Law does not prohibit pot purchases with welfare

Susan Ferrechio · September 9, 2014 5:28 pm

This undated photo released by the federal General Services Administration shows the Halfway Rock Light Station on a small island in Casco Bay off Harpswell, Maine. The administration is the nearing the end of an online auction for the 76-foot-high lighthouse, with a half dozen bidders and a high bid of more than $200,000. (AP Photo/General Services Administration, Jeremy D'Entremont)

Plenty of light! Feds are selling off lighthouses

Patrick Whittle · September 4, 2014 9:19 am

In this Friday, Aug. 22, 2014 photo, a man aims his gas-powered gun at his opponents as he plays in a friendly game of paintball in Kabul, Afghanistan. The arrival of recreational paintball to Afghanistan may seem peculiar to outsiders, especially in a country that's known decades of war, faces constant bombings and attacks by Taliban insurgents and is preparing its own security forces for the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of the year. However, it shows both the rise of a nascent upper and middle class looking for a diversion with the time to spare, as well as the way American culture has seeped into the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

With a splat, paintball fires into Afghanistan

Rebecca Santana · August 29, 2014 9:45 am

In this photo from Aug. 14, 2014, John Wirtz, Chief Product Officer of Hudl, speaks of his company's product in Lincoln, Neb. Hudl is a software company that has developed a way to immediately get game film to coaches after games and break down and separate different plays by type. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Pregame film study shifts to phones, tablets

Kurt Voigt · August 29, 2014 7:58 am

Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual "Tomatina" battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 125 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants, many from abroad to throw during the hour-long morning festivities. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)

Annual tomato battle leaves Spanish town red

alberto-saiz · August 27, 2014 10:22 am

McDonald’s confronts its junk food image

Candice Choi · August 18, 2014 5:36 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 8, 2009, file photo, a bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon is dipped in red wax during a tour of the distillery in Loretto, Ky. Kentucky bourbon makers have stashed away their largest stockpiles in more than a generation due to resurgent demand for the venerable brown spirit. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

Bourbon production reaches high point since ’70s

Bruce Schreiner · August 17, 2014 3:46 pm

Last scream for California’s Colossus coaster

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 6:57 pm

Attorney Paxton Guymon holds a photograph of Jim and Jan Harding during a news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Jan Harding, 67, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital's burn unit, unable to talk and fighting for her life, Guymon said. She drank sweet tea containing a toxic cleaning chemical, severely burning her mouth and throat at a Utah restaurant after an employee mistook the substance for sugar and mixed it into a dispenser, Guymon said. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Chemical-filled tea burns woman at Utah restaurant

Brady McCombs · August 14, 2014 11:24 pm

In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 photo, an airplane takes off from Dayton International Airport, passing over one of the airport's prairies in Vandalia, Ohio. In an effort to keep birds away from aircraft, the airport is experimenting by planting the tall prairie grass. Heavy birds like geese, which cause the most damage to planes, are believed to avoid long grasses because they fear predators might be hiding within. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)

Airport tests new way to avoid deadly bird strikes

Scott Mayerowitz · August 12, 2014 3:53 pm