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Happy Tuesday! Five months after thieves made off with a $24,000 bottle of pinot noir from a Virginia restaurant, it’s been mysteriously returned.

Peter Gattuso is a Morning Dispatch reporter for The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2024, he interned at The Dispatch, National Review, the Cato Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When Peter is not fact-checking, he is probably watching baseball, listening to music on vinyl records, or discussing the Jones Act.