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- How to survive Nationals Opening Day in and around the stadium. [WTOP]
- Check out the team’s roster. [Post]
- Plus, five reasons 2017 looks promising for baseball in Washington. [CBS]
- Roger Wilkins, the first Black assistant attorney general and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, dies at 85. [Afro]
- National Zoo’s April Fools’ Day prank features a unicorn. [Post]
- A new map lets you compare the length of your commute with others across the country. [Post]
- Tian Tian stars in a cute video at the National Zoo. [WTOP]
- The Bike House reopens in Petworth. [Popville]
- Georgetown and George Washington join 29 other universities in filing a brief opposing President Trump’s travel ban. [Washingtonian]
- Prince George’s Hospital Center’s neonatal intensive care unit reopens after four months of a bacterium investigation. [WTOP]
- Smithsonian and the Library of Congress buy a rare portrait Harriet Tubman. [Post]
- The White House releases financial disclosures for many of its senior officials. [AP]
- Trump’s cabinet members as Nintendo characters. [Huffington Post]
- This Day In DCist: D.C. welcomes Funny or Die.