- This morning’s heavy rain is flooding roadways and causing schools to close across the region. [Post]
- D.C. is mourning the loss of Melvin Deal, an influential figure in the African dance community. [Informer]
- Individuals 19 and younger make up about 30% of new coronavirus cases in Montgomery County. [WTOP]
- Georgetown University is investigating a stomach illness that has sickened at least 12 students recently. [WJLA]
- A county in Virginia voted to withhold funding for school programs that teach lessons about race or ask students to identify their pronouns. [Virginia Pilot]
- The historically Black fraternity Phi Beta Sigma is transforming their office space on Kennedy Street into affordable housing for seniors. [Urban Turf]
- How the Mystics plan to get back on track after missing this season’s playoffs. [WCP]
- Children’s National Hospital received millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health to fund research at its campus on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center. [WBJ]
- Watch this very, very cute baby cheetah get bottle-fed. [Post]
- The “Devious Licks” TikTok trend has reached D.C. area schools. [Washingtonian]
- ICYMI: 10 Black women have filed a class action suit against the D.C. police department for racial and sexual discrimination.
- ICYMI: Your guide to Art All Night this weekend.
- This Day in DCist: The Pope allegedly blessed these things during his 2015 visit to D.C.
Colleen Grablick