Washington Nationals fans might want to chuck their libraries of 1980s Scandinavian synthpop with the news that outfielder and first baseman Michael Morse was traded to the Seattle Mariners last night as part of a three-team deal.

Mayor Vince Gray still very much wants the ‘Skins to one day return to the city for which they are named, but he appears to be seeing things a bit more realistically.

While on a trade mission in Quebec, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced that the commonwealth has just closed a deal that will allow ranchers to make direct shipments of beef cattle to purchasers in Canada.

Mayor Vince Gray said at a press conference today that in building the District’s trade relationship with China, the continuous building boom in the world’s second-largest economy could use the knowledge of D.C.’s tech sector.

1988 was a great year to be 13 years old and living in the Washington D.C. area. In March of that year, I saw Michael Jordan play in person for the first time, as his Chicago Bulls played the Washington Bullets at the Capital Center in Landover, Maryland. Jordan scored 25 points, but there were none of the fancy breakaway dunks I had come to appreciate — still it was a thrill for me to see the man play just a few hundred feet away.

It’s official — the Nats are definitely sellers as baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline looms. I had only just pondered losing Matt Capps to the Twins a few hours ago, and now it’s time to say goodbye to Cristian Guzman, who was traded to the Texas Rangers this afternoon. Guzman had a disastrous first season with the Nats in 2005 and missed all of 2006 — but he had been holding down the shortstop position,…

The United States and Russia went back to the future this morning, trading ten uncovered Russian deep-cover agents — including three based in Arlington — for four Americans who were being held in Moscow under similar accusations. The whole deal went down in about an hour and a half on a remote tarmac at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport. The Wall Street Journal’s got all you need to know about the complaints lodged against the deported Russians,…

According to various reports, the Redskins have traded former starting quarterback Jason Campbell to the Oakland Raiders in exchange for a 2012 fourth-round draft pick. Man, could the last couple of months have turned out any worse for Campbell? Coming off a season in which he was (probably unfairly) blamed for several Redskins losses, Campbell was tasked with learning yet another offensive system, found out that he was losing his job from a reporter…

McNabbHow about some gigantic, colossal, blockbuster breaking football news to close out your Easter Sunday? ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles have nearly completed arrangements on a trade that will send six-time Pro Bowl quarterback Donovan McNabb to Washington in exchange for draft picks, likely a second-round pick in this year’s draft and another selection next season. Obviously, some very big news that poses a ton of questions with still…

Caron Butler, courtesy NBA.com Josh Howard, courtesy NBA.com The Washington Post’s MIchael Lee reports that the trade we mentioned in today’s Saturday Morning Post has now been agreed to by both sides. Washington has traded Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, James Singleton and Quinton Ross. Trading Butler and Haywood is a huge slam of the reset button for a team struggling…