The crowd of 41,918 at Nationals Park on Sunday had barely stopped cheering for Jesus Flores’s fourth-inning homer into the right field bleachers, which gave the home team a 4-3 lead over the Baltimore Orioles, when 10-year-old Micah Hurewitz, standing with his dad in the upper deck, had to start yelling all over again. Read full article > >

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Crowds, homers and winning teams fill Nationals Park for a weekend

Tea Party-backed Republican candidates for the Senate are looking to infuse the upper chamber with the deep-seated conservatism that is present in the House.

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Tea Party Focus Turns to Senate and Shake-Up

THE QUESTION Blood pressure checks usually involve inflating and then deflating a cuff that’s wrapped around the upper part of one arm or the other. Might checking the pressure in both arms be valuable? Read full article > >

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Measuring blood pressure in both arms can reveal potentially serious conditions

Police in the District and Montgomery County say they suspect that the same pair of armed men may be responsible for a spate of as many as 12 street robberies since late November in Upper Northwest and within blocks of the Bethesda-District line near Western Avenue. Read full article > >

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Two Md. home invasions linked to same suspect; woman assaulted in one incident

From 1955 to 1986, Irwin Hasen spent nearly every day drawing “Dondi.” Now 93, he still draws the cartoon almost daily, on the walls of an Upper East Side cafe.

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Character Study: For Irwin Hasen, a Life With ‘Dondi’

Italian PM Mario Monti prepares for a second confidence vote on his economic policies, a day after comfortably passing a similar test in the upper house.

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Italy set for second crucial vote

The Bolshoi Theater celebrated its reopening in Moscow after a huge renovation, with a program seen in an HD broadcast at a theater on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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Critic’s Notebook: Bolshoi Theater Gala on Live HD Broadcast

Lead march on Upper West Side.

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Seeger and Guthrie Join Occupy Wall Street

D.C. police are investigating a slaying that occurred Saturday in the Carver Terrace neighborhood. Police were called to the 1100 block of 21st Street NE about 1:45 p.m. to investigate reports that shots had been fired. Officers from the 5th District found Isaiah Sheffield, 24, of Northeast suffering from gunshot wounds to the upper body. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died, police said. Read full article > >

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D.C. police investigate shooting death of man, 24, in Northeast

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite plunged back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. ET and 1:09 ET, NASA said, but not if it had crashed on land or water.

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NASA Says Satellite Falls to Earth, but Location a Mystery

The sky is not falling. A 12,500-pound NASA satellite the size of a school bus is, however. It’s the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS — YOU-arz — and it’s currently tumbling in orbit and succumbing to Earth’s gravity. It will crash to the surface Friday. Or maybe Thursday. Or Saturday. Read full article > >

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NASA satellite expected to hit Earth this week

Officer Michael V. Pena was accused of grabbing a woman in Upper Manhattan and showing her his gun before attacking her, the authorities said.

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New York Police Officer Charged With Rape While Off Duty

The Capitals outshot the Lightning, 28-24, in Game 1 of the conference semifinals at Verizon Center. They outhit their guests, 28-19, and had the upper hand on faceoffs, too, winning 54 percent of them.

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Caps were undone by their poor power play in Game 1 loss to the Lightning

Wayne Rooney’s calm finish gives Manchester United the upper hand in their Champions League last eight, first leg tie against Chelsea.

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Chelsea 0-1 Man Utd

Rights activists say detentions, including that of Ai Weiwei on Sunday, are a sign that a crackdown on lawyers, bloggers and dissidents is spreading to the upper reaches of society.

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China Takes Dissident Artist Into Custody