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Car Review: Toyota Corolla aims to stay relevant in crossover-crazed market 07/22/2024 10:21am • Toyota has been building the compact Corolla for half a century, and over that time it has become one of the go-to compact sedans on the market. While crossovers and SUVs continue to grow in popularity, the Corolla has learned a few tricks to stand out in the crowd. The Corolla has adapted to the ch 20 notable DC-area rooftops for outdoor dining and sipping 07/22/2024 09:47am • Summer is here, and with that comes the opportunity to enjoy rooftop restaurants and bars at all price points. For some of the best high-up dining and sipping, WTOP has you covered with the following list. For the ritzy and the stylish: Top of the Gate at the Watergate is a rooftop lounge with so Maryland woman, dual organ donor advocates for bill to give tax break to donors 07/22/2024 05:58am • A Maryland woman is advocating for a bill aimed at increasing the number of live organ donors. Lindsay Gutierrez, originally from Oklahoma, served in security forces for the U.S. Air Force from 2010 to 2016. After tours alongside her husband in both England and Georgia, she was transferred to Mar Some of the world's cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans, are in Va. 07/21/2024 09:07am • BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted into people came from animals born on How the global technology outage affected the DC region’s hospitals, transit services 07/20/2024 03:10pm • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. D.C.-area institutions — including hospitals, courts and transit services — modified operations Friday due to a global technology outage. The three major D.C. area airports saw delays and cancellations Friday morning, with some Fairfax Co. approves update to school boundary policy despite criticism from some families 07/19/2024 05:31pm • Fairfax County Public Schools will be able to review school boundaries every five years, as part of an update to the Virginia school district's policy approved Thursday night. School district leaders say the change, the first to Policy 8130 in decades, will allow them to address overcrowding Data Doctors: Tired of websites that automatically play videos? Here's how to block those noisy disruptions 07/19/2024 04:33pm • Q: Is there a way to keep websites from automatically blaring their advertising videos? A: It’s amazing how many websites think that irritating their visitors with an automatically played video is a good idea. Most people searching the web are looking for text; if they sought video, they’d us Joey Fatone of NSYNC joins AJ McLean of Backstreet Boys for boy-band mashups at MGM National Harbor 07/19/2024 03:24pm • Important question for all you '90s kids: Were you more of an NSYNC fan or a Backstreet Boys fan? Did you do the "Bye Bye Bye" dance or belt "I Want It That Way" at the top of your lungs? These days, you don't have to choose as Joey Fatone of NSYNC teams with AJ McLean of The Backstreet Bo Q&A: JD Vance is the GOP candidate for vice president. Here's how he's spent his time in Alexandria and DC 07/19/2024 08:54am • Former President Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance went from the Appalachians to Alexandria, Virginia, in a matter of years. But does the junior senator from Ohio have the same persona here in Washington that he does in the Buckeye State? WTOP asked D.C. Axios reporter Cuneyt Dil about the 'We desperately need help': A DC day care owner's urgent plea after shooting wounded 2-year-old girl 07/19/2024 08:25am • At the Cre8tive Korner Early Learning Center on Alabama Avenue in Southeast D.C. on Thursday, teachers loaded a group of 2-year-olds into a red six-seat buggy and set out for a walk to take in the fresh air on what was one of few mild-weathered mornings this month. Sadly, the children and the EggSnob pop-up will bring breakfast to Kevin Tien’s Hot Lola’s in Rosslyn 07/18/2024 11:31am • Rosslyn workers and residents will have a new breakfast pit stop starting next week with the opening of EggSnob, a pop-up inside celebrity chef Kevin Tien’s Hot Lola’s at 1501 Wilson Blvd. The breakfast sandwich pop-up will be a change for chef Dario Arana-Rojas, the chef and owner of Saoco C Arlington expected to ask for millions in grant money to address dangerous roads 07/18/2024 07:14am • Arlington is planning to ask for as much as $85 million in grant funding for three traffic projects aimed at making roads safer. The Arlington County Board is scheduled to consider whether to ask for the grants during its meeting Monday. ARLNow first reported the county’s plan to ask for app 'Microphone Check' documentary explores 'Hidden History of Hip-Hop' at E Street Cinema in DC 07/18/2024 04:12am • UPDATE: The E Street Cinema screening was canceled after the publication of this article. Hip-hop recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, but who really created the genre? The new documentary "Microphone Check: The Hidden History of Hip-Hop" makes its D.C. premiere at the Landmark E Stre Pointer Sisters are so excited — and they just can't hide it — to play MGM National Harbor 07/17/2024 04:06am • D.C. music fans are so excited — and we just can't hide it — for a triple dose of nostalgia next week. The Pointer Sisters will join The Commodores and The Spinners for a trio of legendary groups at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on July 26. "This is the first time I've wo Montgomery Co. senior scammed out of $900K in gold bar 'big-money scheme' 07/16/2024 09:45pm • Scammers persuaded an 82-year-old Montgomery County, Maryland, woman to buy a fortune's worth of gold bars and then hand them over earlier this year, according to prosecutors, who said the scammers posed as federal agents working to protect her savings. Zhenyong Weng, 19, of New York City, has be