- Advocates are concerned about D.C.’s plan to terminate a partnership with Georgetown University that provides services for people with disabilities. [Post]
- What in the world is a Watergate salad? [WAMU]
- National Park Service officials held the first event in a series of regular meetings planned with District residents. [Curbed]
- The Metro board voted to permanently increase Red Line service in hopes of drawing riders back to the system. [WTOP]
- Mike Mustard started off as a chef, but now he’s delivering exquisite greens to many of D.C’s top restaurants. [Washingtonian]
- There are three different types of ticks in the D.C. area and they all carry different diseases. [WTOP]
- A truck full of Hershey’s chocolates flipped over and struck a police car on I-270 in Germantown, Maryland. [WTOP]
- A Senate report determined that election systems in all 50 U.S. states were targeted by Russia in 2016. [NYT]
- Looks like La Madeleine will be making its D.C. comeback on August 6th. [Popville]
- The intestinal illness that spread through Northern Virginia has now been detected in Maryland as well. [WTOP]
- Four brothers from the D.C. area rescued a 6-year-old girl who was drifting away in the cold waters of Ireland. [Post]
- This new documentary explores how Maryland’s State Board of Censors managed to sanitize movies until 1981. [Washingtonian]
- The president of Fairfax’s NAACP chapter sent his predecessor a racially derogatory text message. [Post]
- ICYMI: A D.C. court ordered a local landlord to remove language from its housing advertisements that discriminated against people who receive housing assistance.
- ICYMI: The District’s professional tennis tournament starts this weekend. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
- This day in DCist: D.C. police found a four-foot-long caiman making its home in a basement in Southeast.