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Leesburg police seek protesters in sidewalk vandalism 09/14/2020 02:41pm • The Leesburg Police Department is seeking the public’s help in finding the people responsible for painting on the sidewalk on the edge of the Virginia city’s historic district during a protest last week. The protest took place last Friday, just before 7 p.m. The painted message was in Spanish Science of beer gets boost in Hyattsville 09/14/2020 02:28pm • A brick industrial building in Hyattsville, Maryland, is not where you'd expect to find a science lab. But this one fits right into the culture it's working to enhance: brewing. Laboratories aren't unique to Matt Humbard, who heads up Hyattsville-based Patent Brewing Company. He's a trained micro See the new Eisenhower Memorial before Thursday dedication 09/14/2020 11:45am • D.C.’s long-awaited memorial honoring president and World War II commanding general Dwight D. Eisenhower will be dedicated Thursday and opened to the public a day later, after a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new memorial to the nation’s 34th president was originally slated for dedicati Lawmakers, advocates to unveil program to reduce Maryland health care disparities 09/14/2020 11:05am • The proposal would create Health Equity Resource Communities. (Getty Images) This article was written by WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters and republished with permission. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Health advocates will announce plans this we Eisenhower Memorial to be dedicated Thursday, opens to the public Friday 09/14/2020 07:41am • D.C.'s long-awaited memorial honoring president and World War II commanding general Dwight D. Eisenhower will be dedicated Thursday and opened to the public a day later, after a delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new memorial for the nation's 34th president was originally slated for dedicati US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad is stepping down 09/14/2020 07:32am • U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad is stepping down amid increasingly strained ties between the world's two biggest economies, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday on Twitter. Thanking Branstad for his service, Pompeo said in a tweet that he had "contributed to rebalancing U.S.-Chi Alexandria mandates facemasks in public spaces starting Oct. 1 09/14/2020 07:00am • The Alexandria City Council approved a new ordinance that will mandate face coverings at indoor and outdoor public settings in the Virginia city starting October. Alexandria's new mask ordinance takes effect Oct. 1 and applies to anyone in a public space over the age of 10. It includes those pres Is the great COVID-19 airplane seat overhaul happening? 09/14/2020 06:35am • Plexiglass dividers between passengers, new staggered row layouts, zig-zag seating, space-age transparent bubbles around travelers' heads -- just as new divider screens popped up in shops and restaurants around the world in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, so came a wide variety of new concepts fo Craving sugar during a pandemic? Here's how to tame your sweet tooth 09/14/2020 04:26am • Cakes, cookies, pie. During a global pandemic or even more moderately stressful life circumstances, we often turn to comforting sugary and carb-rich indulgences that may help to calm us down. Now for the bad news. New recommendations that will inform soon-to-be-released U.S. dietary guidelines How pandemic and politics are interfering with the 2020 census 09/14/2020 03:07am • If the 2020 census fails to count everyone in the US, experts warn that the consequences will be serious, widespread and long-lasting. The census is the basis for determining how many representatives each state gets in Congress and how an estimated 1.5 trillion dollars in federal funding are spen Maryland contracts Minnesota company to produce mail-in ballots 09/14/2020 02:53am • A Minnesota-based company has agreed to produce up to 4 million mail-in ballots for Marylanders to use in this fall's general election, the state's board of elections announced Friday. The Maryland State Board of Elections said that Taylor Corporation, which also does business as Curtis1000, is a DC Black Film Festival presents virtual slate to spark timely conversation 09/14/2020 12:57am • It has been a pivotal year for race in America with the rise of "Black Lives Matter." Now, the conversation continues at the D.C. Black Film Festival from Sept. 14-20. "One of the things I love to use the film festival for is the ability for us to consume a film, but then talk about it aft How colleges use SAT and ACT results 09/14/2020 12:00am • Navigating test-optional policies at colleges and universities can be challenging. But for college applicants who do opt to submit their ACT or SAT scores, there is a second layer of potential confusion: how those scores are then used by institutions. College scoring policies can be broken down i Princeton, Williams top 2021 US News Best Colleges rankings 09/14/2020 12:00am • Higher education can be a vast and confusing landscape, populated with thousands of colleges and universities across the nation, divided into many categories and comprising differing institutional missions. When making a decision on where to enroll, prospective students and families are faced wit Bystanders rescue 17-year-old from drowning in Potomac River 09/13/2020 09:47pm • A 17-year-old boy tried swimming across the Potomac River from Sandy Landing in Virginia on Sunday night, but about halfway to Maryland, he began struggling, and eventually the current pulled him under water. His friends jumped in to try and save him, but it was two strangers who ended up potenti