Two people suffered serious injuries after reportedly being struck by the driver of a Jeep in a possible road rage incident. The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. at the intersection of N. Glebe Road and 11th Street N. in Ballston. Initial reports suggest both victims suffered serious traumatic injuries after being intentionally struck by a driver. Police are now looking for a Jeep with D.C. tags, which fled the scene and might have been gotten onto I-66. Southbound N. Glebe Road was closed during the response to the incident but reopened around 8 p.m. > NEW: Two pedestrians reported struck a short time ago near N. Glebe and Washington Boulevard in Arlington County. Early reports indicate the striking vehicle fled the area. @ArlingtonVaPD and @ArlingtonVaFD are handling. Some traffic shut down in the area. @ARLnowDOTcom… pic.twitter.com/emgcyBa8yl > > — Dave Statter (@STATter911) December 19, 2025

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.

# We know D.C. Get our free newsletter to stay in the know. Sign UpSubmitting form _Unsubscribe any time._ Processing… Success! You're on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Thanks for being a member of _City Paper_! ## If you love _City Paper_ , get it every day in our newsletter. Sign up nowSubmitting form Processing… Success! See you in your inbox. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. At-Large D.C. Councilmember **Anita Bonds** will not seek reelection in 2026, she confirms to _Washington City Paper_ Saturday. Her decision throws yet another election wide open in the coming local campaign season. As of now, there definitely will be a new mayor and there could easily be five or six new councilmembers by early 2027. Bonds, a member of the D.C. Council since 2012, disclosed her decision Saturday during a meeting at The Point restaurant in Southwest. Bonds tells _City Paper_ she plans to now focus on two or three major things she’d like to accomplish before her term ends Jan. 2, 2027. She spoke in general about housing and expanding the size of the D.C. Board of Elections, but didn’t go into deep detail. Bonds has considered endorsing one of her Council staffers, **Kevin Chavous** , to replace her, _WAMU_ reports; Chavous currently works as her committee and policy director and is the son of a former D.C. councilmember of the same name. All candidates running in 2026 can officially pick up nominating petitions on Jan. 23 to begin qualifying for the races. Here’s a rundown of the scrambled balloting ahead: Mayor **Muriel Bowser** recently announced that she won’t seek a fourth term, so the District will definitely have a new mayor who’ll be sworn in Jan. 2, 2027. It is the first open-seat race for mayor in the District since 1998. The likely changes in the five or six Council seats this campaign season are far more complicated. Under the District’s Home Rule charter, a candidate from any party, or an independent, can occupy the eight ward seats. But no single political party (read Democrats) can hold more than two of the four at-large seats. The restriction was inserted by Congress in 1973 in an attempt to ensure the Council had some political party diversity in this heavily Democratic city. The other two at-large seats are reserved for non-majority parties (in D.C. that includes Statehood, Republican, non-aligned independent candidates, etc.). The decision by Bonds opens her at-large seat to voters in the June primary and November general election. Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George attends a Council breakfast in 2023. Credit: Darrow Montgomery If Ward 4 Councilmember **Janeese Lewis George** wins her campaign for mayor, her Council seat would be filled in a special election in early 2027. If Lewis George loses the mayor’s race, she still would retain her Council seat because she’s in the middle of her current term. The most Dramaine-inducing election scenario involves independent At-Large Councilmember **Kenyan McDuffie** and his plan to run for mayor. As an independent, McDuffie legally has to resign his Council seat in order to run for mayor in the _Democratic_ primary. So, win or lose as a mayoral candidate, his Council seat will be open to other independent or minority party candidates. When McDuffie resigns to run for mayor, anytime after December 24th, the Board of Elections would declare his Council seat vacant and would then call a special election on June 16 to fill the remaining months of his term; the 2026 Democratic primary is already scheduled for the same day. Whoever wins that special at-large election in June would only serve out the final months of McDuffie’s unfinished term, which ends Jan. 2, 2027. Meanwhile, the BOE would hold a separate general election in November to elect a non-Democrat for a full, four-year at-large term. (The winner of the special June election could also run for the four-year term in November.) Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto Credit: Darrow Montgomery Ward 2 Councilmember **Brooke Pinto** and At-Large Councilmember **Robert White** are both running in the June Democratic primary to succeed D.C. Del. **Eleanor Holmes Norton** , who is not expected to run again. Both Pinto and White are in the middle of their current, four-year Council terms. If either or both lose, they will retain their seats. But if White or Pinto wins, their respective seats would be filled in another special election that would take place in early 2027. Ward 1 Councilmember **Brianne Nadeau** already has announced her decision not to run for re-election, and several candidates have announced campaigns to fill her seat. Ward 8 Councilmember **Trayon White** is a wild card. He is facing a March 2026 trial on his federal bribery charges stemming from his arrest in August 2024. If convicted of a felony while in office, White could no longer legally serve on the Council. A special election in Ward 8 would be held as soon as possible to replace him. D.C. Attorney General **Brian Schwalb** is also running for a second term. So far, there is no election drama involving his campaign. Ward 3 Councilmember **Matt Frumin** , Ward 5 Councilmember **Zachary Parker** , and Ward 6 Councilmember **Charles Allen** are also all running for re-election in races that, so far, are clear of drama. At-Large Councilmember Christina Henderson Credit: Darrow Montgomery But just to throw a little more speculation on the campaign fire, there’s some political talk that At-Large Councilmember **Christina Henderson** , an independent who holds one of the non-majority seats,**** may run for Council chair in the November general election. If she were to run, she’d likely be challenging incumbent Chair **Phil Mendelson** , if he wins the Democratic primary in June. If Henderson were to run for chair and lose, she would retain her at-large seat because she is in the middle of her term. If Mendelson were to lose, he’d be out of office, having served on the Council since 1998, first as an at-large member and as chair since 2012. All of these election changes could occur as D.C. voters are trying to understand how the new ranked choice voting system will affect their choices. 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