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• Even after today’s big worldwide rate cut, markets are still freefalling.
• Via The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room, we find this killer SLAM magazine interview with Gilbert Arenas, who admits he doesn’t know who Joe Biden is (Joe “Budden”) and calls Sarah Palin “retarded.”
• A 23-year-old Capitol Hill woman who had just moved into a new home was attacked by a burglar and stabbed 17 times. She’s expected to survive.
• A man who was killed in a triple shooting in Landover yesterday was expected to testify in the murder trial of Jamaal G. Alexis, who stood accused of murdering music engineer Scottie Beats.
• Police are looking for a missing 15-year-old babysitter and an 18-month-old boy in Montgomery County.
• One alley in Capitol Hill appears to be an oddly popular spot for car fires.
• A couple different takes on what McCain meant to imply when he said “That One” in last night’s debate.