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Labor Day 2020: What's open, what's closed 09/04/2020 07:54am • Labor Day weekend is typically the end of summer, and with the long holiday weekend comes changes to traffic, transit and government services. Here's a list of some services that will be affected. Transportation Metro will operate on a holiday schedule on Monday. Trains will run between 8 a.m. DC police release bodycam footage of fatal shooting of 18-year-old 09/03/2020 10:14pm • A scene from the D.C. police officer's bodycam footage, moments before 18-year-old Deon Kay is shot on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. (Courtesy D.C. police) D.C. police have released body camera footage of Wednesday's fatal shooting of an 18-year-old in Southeast. Police released the body camera f Here's what the Burger King of the future will look like 09/03/2020 07:04am • Burger King's future restaurants will be fit for the coronavirus age, with triple drive-thrus, burger pickup lockers, takeout counters and more. The burger chain unveiled two new restaurant designs with those features and others on Thursday. It plans to build some prototypes next year in Miami, L AAA seeing last-minute interest in Labor Day travel 09/03/2020 03:45am • Traffic appears to be a wild card this Labor Day weekend amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We’re seeing a surge in families planning last-minute trips for the holiday weekend,” said John Townsend, manager of public and government affairs at AAA Mid-Atlantic. “We’re seeing an upsurge in Alcohol license suspended for Arlington restaurant where shootings happened 09/02/2020 06:56pm • The alcohol license of an Arlington County, Virginia, restaurant has been suspended following the latest shooting that has happened near its location. "Following a series of disturbing events associated with the Purple Ethiopian Restaurant and Lounge, LLC on Columbia Pike, the Virginia Alcoholic Labor Day weekend during a pandemic: Travel, restaurant trends to expect 09/02/2020 01:27pm • A man wearing a face mask walks past a restaurant in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua via Getty) It has been a difficult summer for many D.C.-area restaurants and tourist spots due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but there's still hope the Labor Day weekend could COVID-19 cases could explode after Labor Day: It's up to us to stop it 09/02/2020 09:02am • Memorial Day came. We celebrated. We burst out of our suffocating homes with a damn-the-torpedoes surge, eager to see the places, family and friends we'd been yearning for during those smothering weeks of isolation. Then we paid the price. Two or so weeks later, after th How can workers deal with customers who refuse to wear face masks? 09/01/2020 01:40pm • Wearing a mask in public during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to some heated interactions between essential workers and customers who refuse to wear them. A D.C.-based organization, Defend Yourself, is working to help employees navigate those interactions. Lauren Taylor, the group's founder, sa Labor Day 2020 freebies, events and discounts in the DC area 09/01/2020 11:31am • Looking for free things and events around the D.C. area for Labor Day weekend? Here are some freebies and discounts to celebrate the weekend. Alexandria Virginia's Restaurant Week has been extended through Labor Day. More than 50 restaurants are offering a $49 takeout dinner for two during the ex Rolls-Royce Ghost was so eerily quiet, engineers had to make it louder 09/01/2020 08:25am • Rolls-Royce unveiled its all new Ghost Tuesday, and it looks strikingly different from any Rolls-Royce that has ever come before. The Ghost is the ultra-luxury automaker's slightly smaller and somewhat less expensive sedan, and the new version is far more understated than i Zooming into kindergarten: What it's like on first day of elementary school 08/31/2020 01:30pm • Mia Linton starts her first day of kindergarten online. (WTOP/John Domen) Early Monday morning, 5-year-old Mia Linton held up a handmade sign and posed for pictures in the front yard, marking the first day of school. Then, the new kindergarten student turned around and walked back inside to begi Car Review: You can plug-in for better mpg with BMW's new version of the X3 08/31/2020 04:16am • Compact luxury crossovers are big business as buyer’s trade in luxury sedans for the popular high riders. BMW redesigned its X3 a couple years ago to better compete in a more crowded marketplace. I drove the sporty X3 M40i in 2019 and was impressed with its potent performance. New for 2020 is 2020 College Football Preview: Here we go? 08/31/2020 04:15am • College football season is back. WTOP's Dave Preston will be taking you through all the local schools this week, and we’ll have a sport-wide preview and set of predictions Friday. There are some things the coronavirus pandemic can't affect. One of them is the fact that my car needs to be ins 2 injured in shootout on Columbia Pike in Arlington 08/30/2020 06:56pm • A suspected gunman and another man were hurt in a shootout along Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia, early Sunday morning, according to Arlington County Police. Around 5 a.m., police said two security guards were clearing out the parking lot of a business in the 3100 block of Columbia Pike when 'A time to pick up:' Hurricane-hurt Louisiana begins cleanup 08/29/2020 05:21pm • CAMERON PARISH, La. (AP) — Residents in southwestern Louisiana embarked Saturday on the epic task of clearing away felled trees, ripped-off roofs and downed power lines after Hurricane Laura tore through parts of the state. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane rose to 16 deaths, with mor