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Fairfax Co. school club connects high schoolers with nonverbal elementary students 01/21/2022 05:39am • As Fairfax County, Virginia, elementary school students concluded their weekly afternoon session with Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology students on Wednesday, Mary Beth Fleming was blown away by how some younger students said goodbye. A partnership with students involved wit Crypto Taxes: Your Guide to Navigating the Chaos 01/20/2022 07:00pm • Failing to properly report and pay taxes on cryptocurrency holdings might have gone unnoticed in years past, but experts say those days are over. The Internal Revenue Service has again and again signaled its efforts to not only enforce the tax code in the world of virtual currency, but to target cry 5 Strategies for Charity-Minded Clients in 2022 01/18/2022 07:00pm • Tax deductions are not often top of mind when charitable-minded clients donate to their favorite nonprofit organizations, but if they do it right, these clients may be able to take advantage of the tax code to make tax-efficient, practical and impactful charitable contributions. "There are a lot of 16 more Montgomery Co. schools to go virtual; system asks county to take over contact tracing 01/18/2022 06:02pm • Montgomery County Public Schools has announced that 16 more schools will switch to virtual learning starting Thursday and running through Jan. 29. The move, announced at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, comes amid an ongoing spike in COVID-19 cases and staffing shortages. The schools are: Beall Elem Virginia siblings create app to help those in danger of substance abuse 01/17/2022 03:16pm • Two Virginia siblings have taken their social media and technology skills to a new level, creating an app to help those at risk of substance abuse that has been adopted by a national nonprofit. "It's a really good feeling," said Abhinav Potineni, 16, a junior at Rockridge High School in Loudoun C Youngkin, Psaki respond to Northern Va. school systems' announcements on mask requirements 01/16/2022 09:20pm • Virginia's freshly inaugurated governor, Glenn Youngkin, signed executive orders removing school masking requirements across the state on Saturday afternoon. Since that moment, Arlington and Alexandria school systems have joined Fairfax County Public Schools in reminding families that masking polici Data Doctors: Using dropped pins in Google Maps 01/14/2022 04:32pm • Q: What can I do to make dropped pins more accurate in Google Maps? A: Dropped pins -- which is done by pressing on any point in a map view -- are very helpful for locations that don���t have a physical address, such as a remote hiking area or in regions of the world that don���t have physical ad It���s Girl Scouts Cookie season ��� and there���s a new one this year 01/12/2022 10:30am • Girl Scout Cookie Season, called the world���s largest entrepreneurial program for girls, kicked off this week, and there���s a new cookie box in the mix. You can get Girl Scout Cookies through DoorDash this year. More Food and Restaurant News More Business News The new Adv 7 High-Risk Stocks for Aggressive Investors 01/11/2022 07:00pm • These high-risk stocks seem worth the stretch if you're OK with volatility.The stock market as a whole continues to sit near its record highs. However, certain more speculative areas of the market have gotten shellacked. Special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, cloud software firms and crypt COVID-19, Vaccines and Autoimmune Diseases 01/11/2022 07:00pm • Early in the coronavirus pandemic, it became clear that COVID-19 could cause serious disruptions to the immune system in some people. For people with autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system erroneously attacks tissues or cells in the body that it shouldn't be targeting, these potential hyper Montgomery Co. asks for National Guard help with bus driver shortages; urges more residents to get boosters 01/11/2022 05:07pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, have formally requested the Maryland National Guard to act as bus drivers, as the state's largest school system deals with major shortages that have disrupted the return of students from the winter break. The county is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases Montgomery Co. schools investigating accusations of racist remarks during HS basketball game 01/10/2022 11:45pm • For the third time in recent months, Montgomery County, Maryland, is looking into racist remarks allegedly made by students at two schools. In a message to the community, Jeff Sullivan, the schools' director of Systemwide Athletics, said students at Albert Einstein and Sherwood high schools, alle Montgomery Co. Public Schools dumps formula for shifting to virtual classes 01/07/2022 03:32pm • Montgomery County Public Schools said it is dumping a formula related to temporarily shifting schools to virtual learning if 5% of students and staff test positive for COVID-19. Instead, the Maryland school system said it will determine whether schools should transition to virtual learning amid a Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 01/06/2022 07:00pm • AI stocks may be excellent long-term investments.The global artificial intelligence market is on track to hit more than $554 billion in total revenue by 2024, according to market researcher IDC. AI, automation and robotics are disrupting virtually every major industry. From machine learning to the " Some Md. medical licenses are delayed due to health department���s cyber attack 01/05/2022 02:26pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. ���Sharon,��� a newly minted mental health therapist in Western Maryland, applied for her license with the state in November, sending in the