Good morning. Mostly sunny today, with light winds and highs near 89. Partly cloudy with lows around 72 tonight.
Weekend sports: The Nationals will visit the Milwaukee Brewers all weekend. DC United will play the Galaxy in Los Angeles tomorrow night. Loudoun United FC will visit the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC on Sunday evening. The Washington Freedom will play a still-undetermined team on Sunday night. The Mystics will face off against the Seattle Storm on Sunday, in the other Washington.
Washingtonian Today editor Andrew Beaujon will be back from vacation on Monday. Thank you for having me! You can still find me on Bluesky, I’m @kmcorliss.19 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below.
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“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. I still remember how this book—A coming-of-age novel born from the Harlem Renaissance—made me cry practically to the point of dry-heaving during 12th-grade English class. I’m rereading it now because I felt like having an emotional weekend, and I’m finding strange and immense comfort in the line: “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Whistleblowin’ in the wind: Fifteen-year Justice Department veteran Erez Reuveni, who was fired in the spring after he told a judge that Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been deported by mistake, is...
Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the “faith-friendly” right-wing cable network of defaming Dominion Voting Systems. Newsmax falsely claimed Dominion helped ri...