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- Bijan Ghaisar’s family has filed a FOIA for information on how and why the 25-year-old was shot by two Park Police officers last November. [Post]
- Ed Lazere, who tried to oust Phil Mendelson as D.C. Council chairman, is back at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. [WCP]
- A judge ordered Paul Manafort moved to a local jail, but he asked to stay in a Virginia jail two hours away. [Post]
- Three Maryland campaigns are seeking a recount. [WTOP]
- Some giant chess pieces were tossed off an apartment building roof in Northeast, damaging cars below. [Post]
- A driver fleeing from police in a stolen car from Prince George’s County to D.C. crashed into a motorcyclist, seriously injuring them. [WJLA]
- Urban Plates is opening July 16 in Tysons Galleria. [Eater]
- This D.C. man is being sought in connection with the fatal shooting of a Southeast D.C. woman. [Post]
- As Trump was announcing his Supreme Court pick, Stormy Daniels danced a few miles away. [The Daily Beast]
- A security breach at the D.C. Department of Health has exposed the information of hundreds of nurses. [WJLA]
- In the quest to make the Anacostia swimmable, an unlikely ally: mussels. [Washingtonian]
- ICYMI: The D.C. Council won’t delay the closure of D.C. General.
- ICYMI: Chairman Mendelson pulled that noise amplification bill that buskers and other musicians have been protesting.
- ICYMI: Seven councilmembers introduced a bill to repeal Initiative 77, which voters passed by 55 percent in the June primary.
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