It's official: Rahm Emanuel is running for Mayor of Chicago! He's got a website and a boring YouTube video and everything. Let's listen to mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel announce his candidacy and his "Tell It Like It Is" Tour.

Barack Obama named his former Senate chief of staff, Pete Rouse, to replace Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff today. What's this guy's deal? Well, he's a much quieter, behind-the-scenes type. And he's into cats. Really into cats.

Rahm Emanuel resigned as White House chief of staff today to run for mayor of Chicago. For someone with such a hardened, Machiavellian reputation, his farewell speech — during which he choked up — was surprisingly eloquent. Where's the rage?

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, about whom every rumor is usually true, will resign tomorrow to run for mayor of Chicago. Pete Rouse, Obama's ex-Senate chief of staff, will take over. But where will "Rahmbo" live? [Image: Getty]

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is the actual most terrifying human in America, but the people renting his Chicago home don't give a shit: They're refusing to move out early for his return. When will Emanuel stab them?

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is all but certain to quit and run for Chicago mayor, possibly this week. Which lucky ducky in Washington will replace Emanuel in this miserable, cynical job? Hopefully some hack!

Rahm Emanuel will probably leave his post as White House chief-of-staff to prepare for a Chicago mayoral run this week. ABC says senior adviser Pete Rouse might become interim chief-of-staff. Is there, like, a countdown clock in the West Wing?

The filing deadline for Chicago's 2011 mayor's race is November 22, with a Democratic primary in February. Not far away! So White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel, should he run, would have to leave "relatively soon" — before the midterms, probably.

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley announced today that he won't seek another term for the office he's held since 1989. How modest! So: Will Rahm Emanuel leave the White House to run for this vacant office in 2011? Probably.

Tonight, Jon Stewart tackled Dr. Laura Schlessinger's reprehensible, racist comments (listen here). Specifically, Stewart called out Sarah Palin for blindly/stupidly/hypocritically defending Schlessinger's vitriol when she'd called for Rahm Emanuel's firing last year for essentially the same thing. Video inside.

Today is Barack Obama's 49th birthday! Yesterday he told reporters that he's gotten a lot more gray hair in the past year. For his birthday, we decided to put together a photo comparison for him. Sweet of us, no?

"Washington insiders" tell The Telegraph that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will resign later this year over "frustrations" with the Obama inner circle. Or maybe he'll resign because he's tired of anonymously-sourced articles speculating about his job safety.

The release of those comical pictures of White House reporters having Super Soaker fights with White House employees at Joe Biden's mansion this past weekend has launched a raging ethical debate.

God, what we would give to be Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden. Not because of their jobs, which seem super stressful. But while we were working, they had an awesome squirt gun fight. More summer-fun pics inside.

The White House chief of staff says he will be mayor of Chicago eventually, because Rahmbo gets what he wants every time. Yesterday he told Charlie Rose, "at some point that will be something I'll do." [WSJ, Getty]

Thought tickling someone "till he couldn't breathe" was weird? Turns out Eric Massa had to be removed from a DC bar when he wouldn't stop making "inappropriate comments." Oh, and he hit on the bartender at a marine's funeral. Salty!

"He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him." Eric Massa's Navy shipmates are speaking out. Add them to the list of people Massa's touched, from Rahm Emanuel to David Paterson. This story has everything.

Salty sailor and homoerotic harasser Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) recently described a naked confrontation with Rahm Emanuel in the Congressional gym's locker room, where they "don't have shower curtains." They need Extreme Makeover: House of Representatives Edition.

Eric Massa is going to resign after all. And then tomorrow he is going to be on Glenn Beck. Here is his comical radio talk about Rahm Emanuel attacking Massa in the shower, without his towel on.