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- Crap commute? Multiple Metro delays around the Reagan National Airport and Braddock Road stations have been causing delays on both the Blue and Yellow lines, which will last for the rest of the evening.
- Creepy story we missed this morning from the Examiner: apparently there are a healthy number of diplomats living the D.C. area who get away with enslaving household and sex workers while hiding under diplomatic immunity.
- Jason Cherkis catches up with Shadow Senator Paul Strauss, post-DUI guilty plea. Strauss just wants to “move on.”
- Do not be alarmed: the U.S. Holocaust Museum was briefly evacuated this afternoon after maintenance activity set off a fire alarm. There was no fire.
- Ryan Avent looks up the data on new housing building permits, concludes that despite the recession, “By any standard, Washington has outperformed most metropolitan areas.”
- Matt Yglesias feels “like it’s been raining almost every day in DC for months.” We feel, you Matt.