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- Forty percent of campaign contributions to D.C. mayoral candidates have come from outside the city, even from the Democratic Republic of Congo. [WAMU]
- Fewer kids are being expelled from D.C. charter schools, with the overall rate falling 27 percent between 2011-12 and 2012-13. [Post]
- uberX is free this week, D.C. Good luck getting a car. [Uber]
- Bipartisan effort helps find McDonnell communication director Tucker Martin’s missing dog. [NBC4]
- The man who killed Mark Waugh, a Georgetown law student, believed his friend was having an affair with his girlfriend. [AP]
- Woman reportedly avoids being mugged on Capitol Hill by claiming she’s an NSA intern. [Examiner]
- Some furloughed workers declared nonessential then essential then nonessential again. [AP]
- Director of the Ralph Nader-backed D.C. Library Renaissance Project wins MLK Library Friends presidency, opposes mixed use plan for the building. [Housing Complex]
- Some veterans feel like they’re being used as “ploys” by both political parties during the shutdown. [Times]
- This Day in DCist: One year ago, authorities responded to reports of a chemical spill at a local Catholic high school that turned out to be a prank.
