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US border agents stopped migrants 209,000 times in August 09/16/2021 08:34am • U.S. authorities stationed along the southern border stopped migrants nearly 209,000 times in August, as unlawful entries slowed down slightly after reaching a 21-year high during the previous month, according to government data released Wednesday. The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statisti Food hall frenzy: See all the new and upcoming food hall projects around the D.C. area 09/16/2021 05:00am • Modern food halls — collections of stalls, often run by independent operators, serving fast-casual food around central seating and often a bar — have been popping up around Greater Washington since Union Market proved a successful test case in Northeast D.C. Like most of the restaurant industr Prince William School Board meeting cleared due to unruly crowd 09/16/2021 01:04am • Police trying to clear the room at the Prince William County School Board meeting on Sept. 15, 2021. (InsideNova/Jared Foretek) This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A Hong Kong Residents Moving to the United Kingdom After China Crackdown 09/16/2021 12:00am • Editor's note: This article is part of a report examining the impact Hong Kong's National Security Law is having on that territory, countries around the world and China's geopolitical ambitions. LONDON -- When a three-bedroom rental house recently came on the market in Reading, a small city of arou 4 Common Myths International Students Have About U.S. Colleges 09/16/2021 12:00am • Paraguay national Yamily Villalba Paredes says she never felt dissuaded from applying to U.S. colleges and universities based on anything she had heard. When she arrived in the U.S. as an international student during the Trump administration, her views slightly changed. Paredes says former Presiden 'Slightly mixed feeling': Montgomery Co. exec concerned about negative impacts of firm vaccine mandate 09/15/2021 03:53pm • While several area leaders have voiced their support for a county vaccine mandate with no option of weekly testing instead, Montgomery County, Maryland's executive said he is wary of the potential consequences. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said he would like to implement a stricter vac Broccoli City festival at RFK canceled again due to COVID-19 09/15/2021 10:24am • Area music lovers long awaiting the return of the festival experience will have to wait at least until 2022. For the second year in a row, the Broccoli City Music Festival has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. Organizers for Broccoli City, which bills itself as the largest U.S. festival for 2 DC parents call for improved safety measures in schools after kids isolate with COVID-19 09/15/2021 09:44am • On Aug. 30, the first day of school in D.C., Ward 6 mom Danica Petroshius sent her 11-year-old son to begin sixth grade at Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan with a KN95 mask and a surgical mask to be used over it. He also had sanitizer in his backpack and brought his lunch, instructed to only pull Alexandria council votes to extend COVID state of emergency 09/15/2021 08:35am • The state of emergency over the pandemic in Alexandria, Virginia, will continue into next year. The Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of a resolution that extends the city’s COVID-19 state of emergency. It will now last until Jan. 31, 2022. The council has been exten Third child tax credit payment set to go out to families 09/15/2021 07:11am • Millions of families will soon receive their third child tax credit payments, which are set to be distributed on September 15. Most parents will automatically receive the enhanced credits of up to $300 for each child up to age 6 and $250 for each one age 6 through 17. The Internal Revenue Service How to Use Student Loan Rehabilitation to Recover From Default 09/15/2021 12:00am • Federal student loan default -- which happens if a borrower misses payments for at least 270 days -- comes with severe consequences. To resolve default, a borrower has options that include full immediate repayment, loan consolidation or loan rehabilitation. For most student loan borrowers, immediat DC reaches settlement with StubHub over events canceled during pandemic 09/14/2021 06:08pm • D.C. customers who bought tickets to events that were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic can now get refunds after ticket resale company StubHub, in response to an investigation, reversed its decision to issue only account credits. The D.C. Attorney General's Office announced a settleme Some Montgomery Co. lawmakers push for stronger vaccine mandate for county workers; search for new health officer begins 09/14/2021 05:50pm • Later this week marks the deadline for Montgomery County, Maryland, employees to be fully vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. But already some county lawmakers are pushing for a stricter vaccine mandate for county workers. Given the somewhat lackluster numbers of employees who have shared the Montgomery Co. school system reverses strict COVID-19 quarantine rules 09/14/2021 03:11pm • After hundreds of students in Montgomery County, Maryland, were quarantined due to potential coronavirus exposure in the first two weeks of the new school year, officials say they are doing away with the strict quarantine guidance, thanks in part to the rollout of a new rapid COVID-19 testing progra Army Ten-Miler goes virtual in light of rising COVID-19 cases 09/14/2021 12:03pm • Runners eager to race each other through the streets of D.C. and Arlington, Virginia, for the annual Army Ten-Miler will have to wait another year to do it in person. Citing the rise in COVID-19 cases stemming from the delta variant, race organizers have chosen to conduct this year's event virtua