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How to encourage family and friends to stop spreading misinformation on social media 08/29/2021 03:07am • Your cousin knows for a fact that coronavirus vaccines have mind-controlling microchips. "Stop the steal" conspiracy theories maybe flooded your social media feeds during and after the 2020 US presidential election. Your friend shares an article about why 5G technology will harm everyone's health. Concerts and COVID: Can the show go on? 08/29/2021 02:11am • Fans of the band Wilco could have reasonably interpreted frontman Jeff Tweedy singing "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" at an Aug. 13 concert at St. Louis Music Park as the universe explaining the past year or so. For example, 30-year-old fan Lazarus Pittman had planned to see Wilco and co-headli DC reaches rental assistance milestone ahead of use-it-or-lose-it deadline 08/27/2021 11:22pm • D.C. has reached a national milestone for rent relief ahead of a use-it-or-lose-it deadline, ensuring more funds will be available for renters and landlords in the District, the mayor's office announced Friday. So far, the District has provided nearly $143 million available in rent and utility as DC teachers concerned schools won't be ready for class Monday 08/27/2021 07:46pm • School starts in D.C. on Monday morning, but teachers say they're concerned some buildings won't be ready. D.C.'s city administrator told lawmakers that contracted maintenance crews will work all weekend to make necessary fixes to heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. After months of p DC-area students get refurbished computers to close digital divide 08/27/2021 06:44pm • For many D.C.-area schools, free gently used laptops jumpstarted many remote learning classes. For 25 years, a federal government program called Computers for Learning has been giving away free computer equipment. "Computers are expensive," General Services Administration spokesman Richard Ste Stores still scrambling to keep some items stocked, local chains getting creative 08/27/2021 06:38pm • Local grocery and specialty stores may look well stocked, especially compared to the height of the pandemic, but some D.C.-area stores say they're still scrambling to cover gaps in the supply chain. "We've had off brands that people will try," said Roy Rodman, owner of Rodman's stores in Northwes Loudoun County schools to require COVID-19 vaccine or weekly testing for employees 08/27/2021 05:46pm • Employees of Loudoun County schools in Virginia will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by November, the school system said. Starting Nov. 1, staff will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Those who are fully vaccinated or have received their first dose of the vaccine will need COVID testing at DC schools now opt-out instead of opt-in for students 08/27/2021 04:41pm • D.C. Public Schools students will be automatically enrolled in the city's random coronavirus testing program unless the student, parent or guardian opts out, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday. That goes for students at all DCPS schools as well as public charter schools participating in the District Lawmakers call on Hogan to waive waiting period to vote on masking in schools 08/27/2021 04:29pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The chairs of the joint legislative committee charged with approving a universal masking mandate in schools called on Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Multiple COVID-19 outbreaks at Va. middle school prompt temporary return to virtual learning 08/27/2021 11:59am • Walker-Grant Middle School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, will revert to virtual instruction for the next week due to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks, according to the school. The Thursday announcement said that in-person classes will resume on Sept. 7. The shift to virtual instruction followed "pos Prince George's Co. government buildings reopen to public Aug. 30 08/27/2021 10:52am • Starting Monday, people will be able to enter Prince George's County, Maryland, government buildings for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic set in. In a news release, the county said that most county government agencies will resume normal operations effective Aug. 30. That means Reston man sentenced for creating counterfeit COVID-19 stimulus checks 08/27/2021 10:48am • A man from Reston, Virginia, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for running a fraud scheme that involved creating counterfeit COVID-19 stimulus checks, according to officials. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said that Jonathan Drew, 39, was sentenced to 70 Liberty University announces quarantine amid COVID-19 spike 08/27/2021 10:16am • LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty University announced a temporary campus-wide quarantine Thursday amid a spike in COVID-19 cases. The quarantine is set to begin Monday and last until Sept. 10. The university’s online COVID-19 dashboard showed 159 known active cases among students, faculty and staf 'If I sound frustrated it's because I am': Ward 6 council member rips DC schools 08/27/2021 08:35am • D.C. Council member Charles Allen held a virtual town hall with education leaders, advocates and parents in Ward 6 on Thursday night and plainly admitted his growing frustration with the city’s school leaders ahead of Monday’s start to the new school year. Allen cited some of the things he†Thousands take over Pennsylvania Ave. for Le Dîner en Blanc pop-up picnic 08/27/2021 06:21am • A sea of white thronged Pennsylvania Avenue leading up to the U.S. Capitol for Le Dîner en Blanc, which returned to D.C. last Saturday for the seventh year after a pandemic pause. Le Dîner en Blanc is a pop-up picnic where people — fashionably dressed in all white — gather at a mystery locatio