The District Report
Last Updated: July 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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r/washingtondc
- Can we talk about how expensive express lane price are
- When is the mall going back to normal?
- The prettiest library
- Looking for friends in Washington DC
- Trump drapes White House in tarp that offers glimpse of his latest facelift project
- Current parking situation in Union Market
- Cyclospora!
- Lantern Flies
- A man who was found in the Epstein files is currently on the main stage on the final night of the Great American State Fair in DC
- BREAKING: The White House is fortifying its front door as part of a months-long security upgrade
DC News Now
- Man shot in Congress Heights seeks help at DC fire station, police say
- Spotty storms Saturday, drier and comfortable Sunday
- Man killed in Columbia Heights stabbing, DC police investigating
- Officer shoots person armed with knife at Wawa on Fairfax Boulevard, police say
- Trump threatens Iran after open calls for the US leader's assassination during ayatollah's funeral
- DC Health launches rodent control dashboard to track rat reports, resolutions
- Reflecting Pool drained again frustrating visitors, Trump administration
- Great American State Fair wraps up 2-week run on the National Mall
- Congress members look to preserve public access to Lafayette Square
- Chris Brown, Usher to takeover Northwest Stadium for R&B tour: What to know
Washingtonian
- Kennedy Center Displays Gold Portraits of Trump, Elon Musk, RFK Jr.
- Anju and Chiko Team Is Taking Over Food and Beverage at the Line DC Hotel
- His Brother Went Missing. Then He Posted on Reddit.
- Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Are Back, There’s Trouble With Trump’s Qatari Plane, and JD Vance Is Looking at Property in Virginia’s Hunt Country
- Guest List: 5 People We’d Love to Hang Out With This July
- Tradition Perfected in This Beautifully Remodeled Colonial Home
- How One Local Designer Turned Her Unfinished Basement Into an Art-Centric $200,000 Home Gym
- PHOTOS: A Look Back at Trump’s Great American State Fair
- 6 Fun Things to Do Indoors to Escape the Summer Heat in DC
- Olympian Charged With Vandalizing Reflecting Pool Pleads Not Guilty
WTOP
- Fairfax Co. police investigate after rescuing child dangling from apartment window
- Police shoot and injure person armed with knife in Fairfax Wawa
- Va. state police say wrong-way driver at fault in 3-car crash on I-395 express lanes
- More than two dozen students impacted by incarceration receive scholarships
- Md. event celebrates a late peace advocate’s message to ‘Play after every storm’
- Steamy Saturday brings showers, thunderstorm chances to the DC area
- Tense debate over DC’s so-called bottle bill continues at a public roundtable
- Road closures from Moore Equity in Mental Health 5K hits DC Saturday
- ‘I’m super blessed’: Producer behind Usher’s Northwest Stadium-filling tour on his long career
- Kids and screens: How to reset your family’s digital habits this summer
- Where are DC’s rats? New dashboard maps rodent reports across the city
- College student’s viral post brings customers to grandmother’s Maryland restaurant
- National Mall visitors frustrated by detours and fencing obscuring Reflecting Pool
- Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again as part of Trump’s troubled revamp
- Parents sue an area school district, saying staffers hid their child’s gender transition
HillRag
The Washington Informer
- Upcoming Film Screening Sheds Light on Tolbert Assassination in Liberia
- Auxiliary Bishop Robert Boxie, the Youngest Prelate in America
- Trust as Your Advantage
- Questions Persist in Death of Mississippi Football Player Nolan Wells
- Things to Do, DMV: Weekday Rundown, July 13-16
- U.S. Foreclosures Hit Seven-Year High While D.C. Area Remains Relatively Stable
- Harriet Tubman’s $20 Bill Vanishes as Trump White House Intensifies Black History Purge
- Earth, Wind & Fire Film Highlights Artists’ Genius, Ingenuity
- PNC and Howard University Host HBCU Entrepreneurship Empowerment Summit
- Things to Do, DMV: Weekend Rundown, July 9-12
Arlington Now
- ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jul 10, 2026
- Decades before current governance debates, Arlington almost got key change in 1970
- North Arlington cemetery seeks wider pathway for carts moving caskets
- New sauna and cold plunge seeks to open this winter on Wilson Blvd
- Arlington will receive $83M in regional funding for transportation projects
- Poll: The best wineries near Arlington
- Pair of 27-story residential towers in Rosslyn gets nod from Planning Commission
- Clarendon Alliance’s new executive director begins ‘listening tour’ of neighborhood
- Can you put compostable food containers in the green bin? It’s a bit complicated.
- Morning Notes for July 10, 2026
- ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jul 9, 2026
- Clarendon redevelopment project expected to finish demolition next month
- Virginia climbs back to No. 3 in CNBC’s top states for business rankings
- Ember restaurant opening soon in Pentagon City, with dry-aged meats and ‘secret lounge’
- ‘Grazie Nonna’ Italian restaurant plans mid-2027 opening in Ballston
Popville
- “When we finish the Piney Branch Tunnel, it will hold at least 4.2 million gallons of rainwater and wastewater during heavy storms.”
- Missed Connections – AWS Summit 2025
- “Any idea why they need to keep digging?”
- Continuing Coverage of the Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Fountains Cont. “Water seems maybe clearer?”
- SO Just How Bad is DC’s Rat Problem? An Unpleasant Example
- Ping Pong Patrol: “After nearly a decade* in Washington, DC, we have made the difficult decision to close SPIN DC. Our final day of service was June 27.”
- Did you see the poster for Jack White’s Concert at the Anthem Tonight? My God. Magnificent.
- End of an Era: Giovanni’s Trattu Temporarily Closed or “Temporarily” CLOSED!?!
- DC Open House List for This Weekend: July 10, 2026
- About that Rain Last Night – MAJOR Flooding at the GATSBY in Navy Yard. Now Closed for Repairs
- Props for Useful Metro Signage!
- “15th Street Bike Lane – Barriers Back Up!”
- Friends of the White Whale Society Presents – Go ask Alice edition
- Shemalis becomes Leez Deli – Same Menu now with Wine!
- Random Reader Rant and/or Revel
- “Summer Restaurant Week Returns August 18-24”
- “We love our weird little car” Stolen from NoMa/Union Market area – keep an eye out
- Missed Connection – Politics and Prose – Union Market (a few months ago)
- “Curious if anyone knows of pizza joints in town that do their own delivery?”
- “sounded like small, nearby explosions”
The Georgetowner
- Onstage Georgetown: July 2026
- Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The Arthur Miller Tapes’
- Virginia Bakery’s Red Truck Showcased at Union Station
- Lotuses, Water Lilies Flower at Kenilworth
- Weekend Round Up July 9, 2026
- Rafidi’s Albi and Starr’s Occidental Top This Year’s RAMMYS
- Auction Block
- America’s Hot 250th Had Something for Everyone
- Newly Arrived: Georgetown University President Eduardo Peñalver
- Business Ins & Outs: Scheele’s, Fathom, Krewe; Pressed Juicery
The 51st
- The RENTAL Act is full of tenant rights rollbacks. This one was supposed to be removed.
- Opinion: We’ve lost trust in D.C.’s high schools. New graduation rules won’t fix it.
- 15 things to do around D.C. this weekend
- Meet our team: Benny Peterson
- A coward’s guide to biking in D.C.
- How cycling is empowering these D.C. students of color
- 9 ways to volunteer around D.C. this week
- How Metro got its groove back
- D.C. restaurants mobilized to aid Venezuela after devastating earthquakes
- The impact of The 51st's election coverage
- 24 things to do over July 4th weekend that aren’t sponsored by Trump
- Ask A D.C. Native: Do you consider Washington D.C. the North or South?
- 9 ways to volunteer around D.C. this week
- Here are the 2026 Democratic primary results
- What comes next after D.C.’s historic primary?