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Good morning, Washington. Very few local headlines to start out the week apart from endless H1N1 stories, to which we’re growing more than a little weary of linking. The Post, thankfully, squeezed all of the relevant D.C. area updates into one story, while the broadcast outlets and smaller papers opted to spread the swine flu news around.

In the meantime, we’re getting a lot of emails from people asking us what was up with all the noisy motorcades early this morning around Thomas and Logan Circles. We confess we’re still not entirely sure, although U Street Girl says she heard President Obama might have been headed to U Street this morning. We’ll be sure to let you know if we get a more definitive answer. UPDATE: General consensus is that all the motorcades this morning were likely AIPAC conference related. Neither President nor Michelle Obama’s public schedules indicate they were out and about the city today, but Israeli President Shimon Peres did head to the Washington Convention Center this morning.

Briefly Noted: Police believe body found in Potomac is Hau Nguyen … Body found in wreckage of vehicle set afire overnight in Suitland … Loudoun County experiments with zig-zag road markings to get drivers to slow down.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, a prominent D.C. spouse was jailed for walking his dog without a leash, and Stephen Colbert did a big Voting Rights segment.