- D.C. Council debates ban on flavored e-cigarettes and menthol cigarettes. [Post]
- Journalists at the Baltimore Sun are looking for a new, local owner for the 183-year-old paper. [WBJ]
- Joe Biden is the only Democrat who would beat President Trump in Virginia, per a new poll. [WAMU]
- A 56-year-old grandmother was shot and killed when multiple gunshots were fired into her Landover Hills home. [WJLA]
- Remembering Gypsy Sally’s: “We were a big happy family,” says one of the owners. [WAMU]
- Two D.C. employers will pay nearly $500,000 in wage theft penalties, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine says. [Post]
- Is there a bright side in the Washington football team’s recent moves? [WCP]
- A spicy review of Ethiopian restaurant Zenebech. [WCP]
- This local sober-lifestyle blogger might just make Dry January a bit easier. [Washingtonian]
- Seven people were rescued and 16 were displaced by a two-alarm building fire in Laurel early Friday morning. [WTOP]
- Shuttered Dupont speakeasy the Sheppard is coming to a new location in Mount Pleasant. [Eater]
- A new racial equity and social justice policy in Montgomery County requires county staffers to reassess the funding of their programs. [WTOP]
- D.C. coworking spaces leased less than 50,000 square feet in the fourth quarter, during a year when the sector expanded by 750,000 square feet locally. [WBJ]
- ICYMI: When facing an empty corner of the bus or train car, where do you go?
- ICYMI: 166 people were killed in D.C. homicides in 2019.
- This Day in DCist: Baggage handler locked in cargo on flight to Dulles.
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