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Not just car prices: Car and home insurance likely to go up with US tariffs 04/02/2025 04:24pm • Consumers could not only face sticker shock at their local car dealerships as car prices are expected to go up due to tariffs, but they could also pay more to insure those vehicles. "Whatever the percentage of tariffs is on that car or that part, will likely be passed on by the manufacturers and Woman dead in Prince George's Co. crash that shuttered part of MD-202 for hours 04/02/2025 10:40am • A woman is dead following a fatal crash in Prince George's County that shuttered a stretch of Maryland Route 202 for hours Wednesday. According to authorities, officers responded to a crash involving a pedestrian at 55th Avenue and Landover Road around 6 a.m. The driver of the car remained on Truckloads of rubbish collected during Maryland roadside sweep has state agency renewing plea to drivers 04/02/2025 05:40am • The first of several seasonal roadway cleanups in Maryland brought in an eye-popping amount of garbage last week, prompting a longtime plea from the state's highway administration to drivers. Operation Clean Sweep collected more than 1,500 pounds of trash and debris, including illegally-dumped ti Winners in Neal Augenstein impression challenge tour WTOP: 'I had to get that voicemail recording' 04/02/2025 05:04am • What a fun experience, Monday, as the finalists in our recent "Neal's Signature Sound: The Augenstein Impression Challenge" toured WTOP's newsroom. It was such a pleasure to meet finalists Anne of Arlington, Isaac from Front Royal, and young contestants Elijah from Springfield, along with Jack an Trayon White on DC special election: ���Once I get on the ballot, it���s gonna be a problem for everyone' 04/01/2025 10:25am • Less than two months after the D.C. Council expelled him, Trayon White made it official, he is running for reelection. In an exclusive interview with WTOP, White said he had filed the paperwork on Monday to be on the July special election ballot. "Everywhere I go, people keep saying, 'We need Car Review: Retooled, the 2025 GMC Acadia lives up to the pricey Denali trim level 03/31/2025 04:21am • Back in the midsize premium crossover fight, the 2025 GMC Acadia Denali brings big style, luxury and improved technology to take on a tough challenge. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The final GM midsize three-row crossover, the GMC Acadia, is also heavily revised for 2025. A few years ago, there would’ve A crime spree centered on beauty busted by Fairfax Co. police 03/28/2025 02:52pm • Police say a trio of D.C. men were quick, efficient and increasingly violent as they robbed a Maryland mall. In fact, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said the three were like ���oddsmakers��� as they calculated the risk before they would strike. On Monday evening, police in Anne Arund DC mansion-selling team jumps to TTR Sotheby's 03/28/2025 01:48pm • A team of four D.C. real estate agents who've listed and sold some of the D.C.-area's most high-profile, multimillion-dollar homes has moved their shingle to TTR Sotheby's after years of being a part of the Washington Fine Properties family. HRLS Partners ��� led by Robert Hryniewicki, Adam Rackl Biographer of former first lady Edith Wilson: 'We've had an acting woman president' 03/28/2025 10:46am • Before women had the right to vote in the U.S., we already had an acting woman president, according to Rebecca Boggs Roberts, the author of "Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson." In an interview at The Woodrow Wilson House, only blocks away from th Moore says tax cuts give 'breathing room to middle class' 03/28/2025 10:19am • Gov. Wes Moore said the fiscal 2026 budget needs to give a tax break to middle-class taxpayers, but he sidestepped questions on whether the plan currently steaming through the legislature provides meaningful relief. Lawmakers have just over a week to finalize a $67 billion spending plan that incl Prince George���s Co. residents fed up with neighborhood parking problems 03/28/2025 04:45am • A growing number of Prince George���s County, Maryland, residents are getting fed up with how difficult it can be to park their cars near their homes ��� or have a friend visit and find a spot nearby as well. It can be seen as a quality-of-life issue that makes it hard to enjoy the simpler moment He drove one of the final cars to cross Baltimore's Key Bridge before it collapsed 03/27/2025 04:39am • Around 1:27 a.m. on March 26, 2024, Larry DeSantis, 68, was heading to his bakery job as he does every morning at that time. He would cross over the Patapsco River on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which he said he loved to cross because of the view it provided of the city. While crossing, he r The Key Bridge, One Year Later: How life has changed in Baltimore Co. since the bridge collapse 03/26/2025 04:22am • It's been a year since the crash that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the waters of the Patapsco River in Baltimore. An expedited cleanup mission got the wreckage out of the water and opened up the channels that allowed cruise and cargo ships to return to Baltimore within a couple 'Ask me about my support of Nazis': DC police seek 2 suspected of defacing Teslas with 'political hate speech' 03/25/2025 03:11pm • D.C. police are looking for two people captured on surveillance video who are suspected of defacing several Teslas parked on the streets of the nation's capital. Police say in at least five cases, Teslas have been vandalized this month. This comes amid a wave of anti-Tesla protests and attacks, n Waymo plans to bring its driverless taxis to Washington in 2026 03/25/2025 11:37am • Waymo on Tuesday added Washington to its pioneering robotaxi service's steadily expanding list of U.S. markets, although passengers will have to wait until next year until they can take a driverless ride around the nation's capital city. For now, Waymo's robotaxis will continue to map Washington'