- Here’s a bizarre list of names that elite Washingtonians gave their second homes in 1983. [Washingtonian]
- A hacker stole around 100 million credit card applications in a massive data breach at the Virginia-based bank Capital One. [Post]
- The District will close about three miles of Georgia Avenue NW to cars for its inaugural open streets event in October. [Curbed]
- A woman saved her bed-ridden mother’s life when she dragged her out of a burning house in Southeast. [WJLA]
- The House set a public hearing on D.C. statehood to September 19 after it ran into scheduling conflicts with the Mueller testimony. [Curbed]
- President Trump continued his tweet rant against Baltimore by calling Rev. Al Sharpton a “con man”. [WTOP]
- And Maryland Governor Larry Hogan stepped up his criticism of Trump after critics called his original response weak. [WAMU]
- Here’s a breakdown of the time Trump has spent in the DMV ahead of his scheduled visit to Virginia. [WAMU]
- A committee found that students are increasingly dropping out or chronically absent from public schools in Montgomery County. [WTOP]
- It looks like Georgetown’s Grace Street Coffee may be opening a second location on 14th Street in Petworth. [Popville]
- Police say a man is jumping out of a car in Northeast to hold up transgender victims at gunpoint. [Post]
- The owner of a weed-clearing herd of goats says two of her animals may have been poisoned while out on the job in Virginia. [WTOP]
- The National Zoo says a prosthetic beak is helping an exotic bird regain the confidence to socialize with other animals. [Post]
- ICYMI: Rock Creek is nowhere near swimmable due to failing bacteria level tests almost every week.
- ICYMI: A man traveling through BWI brought a missile launcher in his checked baggage as a “souvenir”.
- This day in DCist: Barack Obama and Joe Biden stopped in for lunch at the Dog Tag Bakery in Georgetown.
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