Good morning, Washington, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled work week. Many of you let us know that you had epically frustrating experiences trying to wade through G20 Summit-related street closures over the weekend. We feel your pain. But surely it must be of some solace that the world’s top finance ministers were meeting to come up with a real plan to figure out a way out of global financial collapse. Some key decisions were made that will eventually help all of us, right? The Politico says not so much.

Boy’s Death Ends Dispute Between Family and Hospital: Twelve-year-old Motl Brody passed away on Saturday at Children’s National Medical Center, thus ending the religiously influenced legal battle between his parents and the hospital over whether the boy was legally dead. Brody’s doctors had declared him brain dead, but his parents said their Orthodox Jewish faith did not define death that way and fought to keep him on life support. He was buried yesterday in Brooklyn.

Briefly Noted: Man shot in Southeast dragged himself several blocks before dying; shooting may be related to another incident … Passengers on Midwest Airlines flight 2421 had a really bad night … 2 dead, 5 hurt in I-66 accident … Suspicious package closes part of Constitution Ave. for hours on Saturday.

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