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WATCH: House votes on COVID-19 relief bill 03/10/2021 10:34am • Congress is approved a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, placing President Joe Biden on the cusp of an early triumph that advances Democratic priorities and showcases the unity his party will need to forge future victories. See video below. Many DC area office buildings are still largely empty 03/10/2021 10:27am • One year after the outbreak of the coronavirus, many D.C. area office buildings are still far from back to pre-pandemic occupancy of workers. Falls Church, Virginia-based Kastle Systems, whose security entry systems are used by hundreds of buildings in the D.C. region, has been tracking building Loudoun Co. superintendent weighs 4-day hybrid, plans in-person graduation 03/10/2021 08:01am • Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia could soon offer four-day-per-week in-school learning to hybrid students, and will likely hold in-person high school graduations, according to Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler. In a Tuesday meeting of the Loudoun County School Board, Ziegler said he w 10 years of civil war has left Syrian refugees at 'breaking point' 03/10/2021 07:36am • Ein al-Basha, Jordan — Ammar Haj lives in a modest three-room basement apartment with his wife and five children. Every night they gather for a simple meal of lentils, rice and salad at their home outside the Jordanian capital of Amman. "This is the only time I get to see my children," Amm Stimulus checks could come quickly, but the jobless may have a wait for unemployment benefits 03/10/2021 06:05am • The $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that President Joe Biden championed even before taking office is expected to land on his desk in coming days, but it could take some time for struggling Americans to see all the benefits. While the $1,400 stimulus payments could hit pe Inova ER doctor recalls 'exhausting, incredible year' of pandemic life 03/10/2021 04:00am • This week marks a year since people's lives changed in ways they could never have imagined — and for a Northern Virginia doctor, the COVID-19 pandemic brought a long and often grueling grind taking care to live and work as safely as possible. Working 12-hour shifts with a respirator, Goldberg Maryland lifts capacity limits for restaurants, effective Friday 03/09/2021 11:24pm • State capacity limits on dining in Maryland are being lifted at 5 p.m. on Friday. But during a news conference Tuesday, Gov. Larry Hogan said that restaurants and bars will still be limited to seated and distanced service only. The state is also lifting capacity limits on retail businesses, re Legislating in the Pandemic: ‘The quiet is so loud’ 03/09/2021 09:21pm • A Maryland state flag waves near the state house on the morning of the first day of the state's 2020 legislative session, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for M PHOTOS: Biden visits oldest hardware store in DC 03/09/2021 06:10pm • President Joe Biden stepped into D.C.’s oldest hardware store Tuesday to talk about a change he made to the Paycheck Protection Program to benefit small businesses. The W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store in Northeast D.C. is a recipient of the PPP program. Besides being the oldest hardware store Is it your turn for a COVID-19 vaccine? To find out, it’s best to begin close to home 03/09/2021 05:42pm • COVID-19 vaccine supplies are expected to become more plentiful in the near future, and locations to distribute it are growing. But there may be some confusion on who is eligible for the shot, and that depends on where you get vaccinated. Virginia For example, in Virginia, different groups of fron ‘Forward progress’ — Northam touts Va. vaccine distribution 03/09/2021 05:15pm • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Tuesday touted the commonwealth’s “forward progress” on getting residents vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the state was on pace to have every adult vaccinated by the summer. Noting that the state’s first COVID-19 case was a year ago last Sunday, and the DC opens up millions in added funding to support child care centers 03/09/2021 04:59pm • Any working parent will likely call child care essential to going back to work, and D.C. is ensuring that providers have the financial help they need to stay in business. The District is allocating $10.7 million to a new grant program that will offer financial relief for licensed child care cente How the pandemic has reduced DC traffic, by the numbers 03/09/2021 04:47pm • While the pandemic has no doubt led to heavy traffic on The Information Superhighway, the flip side of that is lighter traffic on the regular superhighways — especially around D.C. Traffic analytics company Inrix has published its 2020 global traffic scorecard, and it lends hard data to what th Md. to hold walk-through for potential mass COVID-19 vaccine site in Montgomery Co. 03/09/2021 04:29pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, health officials say they are one step closer to a mass COVID-19 vaccination site opening at the Germantown campus of Montgomery College — but it likely won't be until April, at the earliest, that the site gets up and running. Dr. Earl Stoddard, director of the Offi Teachers, parents weigh in on DC Public Schools teacher retention and funding 03/09/2021 03:25pm • Teachers and parents are sounding off to the D.C. Council about their needs and expectations from D.C. Public Schools as the challenges of learning through the pandemic continue. Of the nearly 200 residents testifying during a D.C. Council Oversight hearing, parent Elizabeth Mitchell echoed the d