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Good morning, Washington. For many of you, the holiday gluttony has persisted beyond Thursday, but if you can manage to move this afternoon — and you didn’t spend all your precious cash on Black Friday — you can capitalize on Shop Local First Day, when independently owned stores across the District offer discounted merchandise. The specials run from noon to 7pm today, and you can check out participating retailers here. Nationally, today is also the second annual Small Business Saturday, a movement that encourages consumers to support their local businesses and neighborhood shops.

>> The Washington Post looks at how the troubled National City Christian Church is coping with declining membership, diminished fundraising, a former pastor’s plagiarism, damage from the August earthquake, and the aftermath of an $850,000 embezzlement scam.

>> NBA owners and players have reached a tentative agreement to end the lockout, and the NBA season could begin on Dec. 25.

>> A young boy was injured when he tried to enter the rear doors of a Metrobus Friday. (Initial reports by police indicated the boy was struck by the bus.) The incident happened on Georgia Avenue, near the intersection of Howard Place. The boy was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

>> A Thanksgiving flight to D.C. was delayed about five hours after students from the United Arab Emirates were detained for questioning in Charlotte. A passenger suspected the group of seven men and one woman was trying to hijack the plane. The pilot called security, and security officials questioned the group about whether they had military training. The students, who had been recognized as future leaders by the United Arab Emirates Embassy and invited to a conference in D.C., were allowed back on the plane after rescreening. They are now asking for an apology.

>> Venerated New York Times political reporter and columnist Tom Wicker, who covered the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy for the paper and became its Washington bureau chief, died Friday at his home near Rochester, Vt. He was 85.

>> Occupy Wall Street has planned a benefit album with Third Eye Blind, Crosby & Nash, Devo, Lucinda Williams and some drummers from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. “Occupy This Album” should be available this winter. Activist filmmaker Michael Moore is also planning to sing.

>> Peaceaholics co-founder and Ward 7 Republican candidate Ronald Moten gets schooled on some Twitter etiquette. He seems open to helpful criticism.

>> Today would have been Charles Schulz’s 89th birthday. Take a moment to remember the lesser-known members of the Peanuts gang.

>> Giving back.