Good morning. Mostly sunny with a high around 84 today. A low near 65 overnight. Sports this weekend: The Nationals host Arizona today, Saturday, and Sunday. D.C. United hosts Toronto FC at Audi Field Saturday. Loudoun United FC visit the Indy Eleven on Saturday. The Washington Spirit host the Denve r Summit at Audi Field on Sunday.    The deadline to vote in our Top Lawyers survey is one week away! Attorneys, you may make your nominations here. How well do you know the District? Play our new geography game and test your local knowledge. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. This roundup is available as a morning email newsletter. Sign up here. I can’t stop listening to: Rose Royce, “Car Wash.” This classic slice of ’70s RB also anchors the terrific 1976 film of the same name. Rent it this weekend! Rose Royce play the Bethesda Theater Friday. Take Washingtonian Today with you! I keep ridiculously long playlists on Apple Music and on Spotify of this year’s music recommendations. Here are 2025’s songs (Apple, Spotify), too. Here’s some administration news you might have blocked out: The war: The US struck targets in Iran overnight, and Iran said it had launched drone attacks against US assets in Jordan and Kuwait. (Reuters) Explosions occurred at a base that hosts US troops near Irbil in northern Iraq. (AP) President Trump said he was “considering a massive attack” on Iran, whose leaders, he said, “haven’t received enough pain yet.” (Axios) Sources in the region say Iran provided military assets to the Houthi rebels in Yemen before they claimed responsibility for attacks on oil tankers in the Red Sea yesterday. (Reuters) Oil prices rose to over $100 a gallon. (NBC News) The average price of a gallon of gas in the US rose to $4.10. (AAA) At home: The Pentagon lowered the number of deaths of US service members it had reported on its website. Military officials said the Defense Department removed four names “because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April.” (NYT) Some of Trump’s advisers worry the war “is consuming his presidency.” (WSJ) A mostly symbolic war-powers measure narrowly passed the House of Representatives yesterday, but the Senate rejected similar legislation. (Politico) Impost syndrome: The administration announced new tariffs on dozens of countries, claiming they had “inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.” (AP) “The move provides fresh evidence of Mr. Trump’s intention to transform global trade, despite numerous court challenges and the protests of U.S. consumers and businesses that have been stuck with higher tax bills.” (NYT) “Once in place, the levies can remain indefinitely and be unilaterally altered by the president.” (WSJ) Doh! J: The US government withdrew subpoenas it issued to New York Times journalists “after a federal judge grilled Justice Department lawyers for nearly an hour.” (NYT) Subpoenas of journalists are typically a last resort for government investigations into leaks, but the Times argued DOJ “appeared to subpoena the reporters as one of the first investigative steps it took.” (Washington Post) DOJ admitted errors and that it didn’t disclose that the subpoenas were for journalists’ records. (Law Dork) The Justice Department “lashed out” at the judge after the hearing. (AP) Related: A member of Vice President JD Vance‘s Secret Service detail is under investigation for leaking to the press after MS Now reported last week that agents were “fed up” by “last-minute travel demands” from the veep and his fam. (AP) Administration perambulation: The FDA announced a new cyclosporiasis outbreak but didn’t say where it occurred. That “does not necessarily mean that these new cases are entirely unrelated to the larger outbreak centered in Michigan.” (NYT) The Department of Transportation urged New York to rename Penn Station, but “stopped short of saying what the station’s moniker should be changed to.” Mm-hmm. (AP) Tension between the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is said to be growing following “missteps.” (NBC News) The administration ended its pursuit of a list of Jewish people at the University of Pennsylvania. (Politico) The Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House and gave him a replica World Series ring. Trump said, “‘Wow. Do I have to report this? I don’t want to report this’ before slipping the ring into the inside pocket of his suit jacket.” (ABC News) Recently on Washingtonian dot com: • As a child, Prince George’s County native Coree Moreno dreamed of being a stylist to the stars. He just created Zendaya’s hairstyles for “The Odyssey”‘s press tour. • Why are ads for the bankrupt and scandal-plagued cryptocurrency firm Terra still on display at Nationals Park? • Prim’s Cafe, a homey new cafe from a former owner of Logan Tavern, has opened in Shaw. • Karim Mowatt‘s new film is set in DC’s go-go scene. • We visited the influencer Sam Parven‘s sort-of-secret new menswear shop in Dupont Circle, which is appointment-only and sells vintage suits. • Last month’s most expensive residential real estate transactions—and the boldfaced names that made them. • Bookworms! Here are a bunch of events you’ll want to put on your calendar. Local news links: • DC chef and TV personality Eric Adjepong has been forbidden from being alone with his seven-year-old daughter after a judge “determined that ‘there is a preponderance of the evidence to believe'” he physically abused her. Adjepong “denied any wrongdoing,” according to court records. (Washington Post) • Montgomery County has reached a deal to acquire the Maryland side of the former White’s Ferry operation in Poolesville. It’s not clear whether that means service will resume, because the owner of the property on the line’s Virginia side said she hadn’t been invited to a planned press conference about the deal today. (WTOP) • Metro promised to revamp and improve bus service. So why have ridership and average bus speeds declined over the past year? (51st) • Hundreds of Howard University students say the school unenrolled them after it said they hadn’t paid tuition bills for the upcoming semester. The students say they’re waiting for financial aid that doesn’t typically land in accounts until next month. (Fox 5) • Police in Fredericksburg say a man whose company is under investigation for predatory towing practices gave officers a fake ID when they stopped his truck for making “an abrupt lane change, causing the vehicle it was towing to swing dangerously.” (ABC 7) • The Pennsylvania State Police say a pastor at a Bailey’s Crossroads church “sent sexually explicit images to a teen for more than a year.” (FFXNow) • The Washington Mystics are exceeding expectations for this season and are “officially a problem” for other WNBA teams. (NOTUS) Weekend event picks: Friday: The “Jury Experience,” an interactive drama, puts you in the jury box at the Miracle Theatre. Saturday: The Mubadala DC Open begins. (Here’s what you need to know.) Sunday: It’s the last day of the District Fringe Festival. See more picks from Briana Thomas, who writes our Things to Do newsletter.The post Eric Adjepong Barred From Being Alone With Daughter, MoCo Buys Maryland Side of Former White’s Ferry Operation, and Trump Pockets a Replica World Series Ring first appeared on Washingtonian. ...read more read less