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How a Montgomery Co. nonprofit is helping low-income residents preserve their homes 11/20/2023 08:00am • Help may be just around the corner if you are a low-income Montgomery County, Maryland, homeowner with a repair list as long as a nine-year-old's Christmas wish list. Rebuilding Together Montgomery County provides critical home repairs and accessibility modifications to the county's most vulnerab Marcos says China showing interest in South China Sea atolls closer to coast of the Philippines 11/19/2023 11:02pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines said the situation in the South China Sea ���has become more dire��� as China expands its presence in an area where multiple nations have competing territorial claims. China has showed interest in atolls and shoals that are ���close Kansas school forced 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, ACLU says 11/18/2023 05:58pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) ��� A Kansas grade school forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut off his hair after he grew it out for cultural reasons, the American Civil Liberties Union said. In a letter sent Friday, the ACLU demanded that the Girard School District rescind a policy at the elementary George Mason removes student responses to president's message over Israel-Hamas war after listserv issue 11/18/2023 11:21am • A recent listserv issue at George Mason University exposed emails from students replying to the president's message on the Israel-Hamas war to the entire university. The university then removed the emails from everyone's inboxes, leaving students wondering if their school was trying to silence th How Fairfax Co. students are using AI to problem-solve 11/17/2023 08:30pm • Students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, are using artificial intelligence to solve problems in class. (WTOP/Scott Gelman) In Room 18 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, teacher Malcolm Ec Russian authorities ask the Supreme Court to declare the LGBTQ 'movement' extremist 11/17/2023 11:51am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� The Russian Justice Ministry on Friday said it has filed a lawsuit with the nation's Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ+ ���international public movement��� as extremist, the latest crippling blow against the already beleaguered LGBTQ+ community in the increasingly conservat Presto's Picks: Terps play Michigan without Harbaugh, while Dukes face NCAA without common sense 11/17/2023 09:06am • Two of the bigger college football stories in the country are taking place right in our backyards (okay, Harrisonburg, Virginia, is more like at the end of the woods but before the property line). No. 2 Michigan has won 33 of its last 34 games after being decidedly second fiddle in the Big Ten Ea How changing a word on a sign could help Alexandria keep pedestrians safer 11/17/2023 05:23am • Alexandria is considering a change to the city's code that would help keep pedestrians safe and help police identify drivers who don't stop for them while they're trying to cross the street. Christopher Ziemann, the Virginia city's transportation planning division chief, said the change would alt 5 Harsh Realities of Homeownership in Florida 11/15/2023 07:00pm • Florida has become one of the hottest states in the country for its sleepy beach towns and retirement communities. In a pandemic-fueled migration frenzy, people flocked to Florida in search of lower housing costs and favorable year-round weather. In 2022, Florida was named the fastest-growing state Where's the line? DC-area universities grapple with what's considered protected speech 11/15/2023 04:18pm • The George Washington University in D.C. has suspended the Students for Justice in Palestine student group for 90 days, following a demonstration where students projected messages onto the side of the university's library last month. At Columbia University in New York, two student groups, Student 'Radical change is coming': DC restaurant owners say they're barely hanging on 11/14/2023 03:33pm • The last few years have been rough on bars and restaurants, and a recent survey suggests businesses operating in D.C. are hurting in the present and pessimistic about the future. There's no one reason, but rather a whole bunch of them that, combined, could lead to a drastic evolution after a tumu 13-year-old boy charged with killing father in Northwest DC 11/14/2023 08:52am • Police in D.C. have arrested a 13-year-old boy and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of his father. On Sunday, Nov. 12, Third District officers responded to a call for a man down inside a building located on 16th Street NW in Columbia Heights, according to a news release. A ma Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each 11/14/2023 03:51am • LONDON (AP) ��� Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization���s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency���s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly E How many snow days will Arlington Co. students get this winter? 11/13/2023 11:40pm • Students in Arlington County, Virginia, will have a number of traditional snow days before they have to log on for virtual classes this winter, Superintendent Francisco Dur��n said at last Thursday���s school board meeting. If a weather event prompts school to close, Dur��n said the school system The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement 11/13/2023 05:23pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Monday adopted its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices, but the code lacks a means of enforcement. The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to