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Firefighters battle multistory apartment building blaze in Northwest DC 12/09/2019 10:00am • Dozens of D.C. firefighters battled a Monday morning blaze in a high-rise apartment building along New Mexico Avenue, leading to extended road closures as first responders assisted residents and began cleanup. Around 5:45 a.m., D.C. Fire and EMS units were dispatched to the Sutton Place apartment Your credit card may be talking from your pocket 12/09/2019 09:19am • Though experts believe the risk is low, fraudsters equipped with RFID readers could collect your card's information. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/Kenishirotie) Contactless pay cards may be increasing the risk of credit card theft from RFID scammers. Though experts believe the risk is low, it is ano Movie Review: 'Marriage Story' is a profoundly realistic divorce drama 12/06/2019 02:24am • Don't be fooled by the title. "Marriage Story" should be called "Divorce Story." That would better prepare you for the highly realistic, yet emotionally draining experience of Noah Baumbach's latest film, loosely based on his own divorce and featuring powerfully human performances by Scarlett Movie Review: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce shine in 'The Two Popes' 12/05/2019 02:26am • You might not expect a talky drama about two popes at the Vatican to be engaging. But that's exactly what filmmaker Fernando Meirelles pulls off in "The Two Popes," thanks to a pair of superb performances by Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict and Jonathan Pryce as successor Pope Francis; both s US scores above average in reading and science, still lags in math 12/03/2019 03:04am • American students may not be reading any better, but they’re moving up in rankings of educational achievement worldwide because many of their peers in other countries are performing worse. And while their math performance may not be declining, 15-year-olds in the United States still lag the sco Data breach exposed personal info of nearly 6,000 Montgomery County student accounts 12/03/2019 02:11am • Nearly 6,000 accounts containing the personal information of students in Montgomery County, Maryland, were exposed due to data breaches that went as far back as September. The school system and Montgomery County police determined that a total of 5,962 Naviance accounts were affected across six sc Dua Lipa just announced her album title in the most clever way 12/02/2019 12:39pm • Dua Lipa performs onstage at a talk with Amanda Petrusich at the 2019 New Yorker Festival on October 11, 2019 in New York City. The artist recentlyCREDIT: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images North America/Getty Images for The New Yorker Dua Lipa has finally revealed more details about her upcoming albu Columbia ranked among nation's safest cities 12/02/2019 12:03pm • Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia Beach are among America's most secure cities when gun violence, frequency of natural disasters and financial risks are all taken into account, according to a new study from personal finance site WalletHub. The personal finance site analyzed more than 180 American First-class gifts at secondhand stores 12/02/2019 05:00am • As holiday gifts pile up, so do holiday bills. Shopping in secondhand stores is one way to avoid paying your credit card into Memorial Day for something you bought at Christmas. Consignment shops Shoppers in D.C. said they plan to spend $701 this year on holiday purchases, higher than the national Movie Review: Sterling K. Brown fathers family drama in 'Waves' 11/28/2019 09:56pm • Some movies you watch to be entertained. Others, you watch to learn a piece of history. But the special few teach us something transcendent about everyday life. That's the case with the unforgettable indie "Waves," which is making waves this award season with comparisons to "Moonlight." While How Montgomery Co. police safely arrested a knife-wielding man at a 7-Eleven 11/27/2019 07:00pm • Police are seen here talking to a man identified as Rodney Taylor-Smith at a 7-Eleven in Germantown, Maryland, on Nov. 20. (Courtesy Montgomery County police) Several police officers in Montgomery County, Maryland, are being credited for de-escalating a situation last week involving a man with a ‘Capital of Basketball’ is labor of love, friendship for wife of Gazette shooting victim 11/27/2019 11:03am • Every book is a labor of love. But few channel the dedication and the emotional weight of three people united through marriage, friendship and tragedy the way “The Capital of Basketball: A History of DC Area High School Hoops” (Georgetown University Press) does. On June 28, 2018, a man walked Why most Americans will hold the line on holiday spending 11/25/2019 10:18am • Holiday shopping will be up overall, but most people are going spend the same or less as last year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) The National Retail Federation forecasts holiday spending will grow up to 4.2% this year, but the majority of Americans actually plan to spend no more than they did last ye Maryland approves narrower Nice Bridge replacement option 11/22/2019 01:25pm • This May 2014 photo shows the Harry Nice Bridge, which carries U.S. 301 over the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. (Courtesy Maryland Transportation Authority) The new Nice-Middleton Bridge between Maryland and Virginia will be significantly slimmed down from originally promised plans Owner of DC's Park 7 Apts. to refund residents $450K for improper water bills 11/22/2019 06:00am • Here is a street view of  the Park 7 Apartments. (Courtesy Google Street View) A Maryland-based company that owns an apartment building in Northeast D.C. will need to pay $450,000 to people who lived there because residents were improperly billed for water. According to the District's Attorn