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Car Review: 2020 VW Atlas Cross Sport loses third row seat, gains flashy style 07/06/2020 03:14am • In the span of only a few years, Volkswagen has gone from looking in on the competition to actually competing in the mid-size crossover market. The new VW Atlas Cross Sport comes with boxy style and a large interior with three usable rows. It’s a serious player. For 2020, the stylish new Atlas The bubonic plague is back again in China's Inner Mongolia 07/06/2020 01:06am • Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia are on high alert after a suspected case of bubonic plague, the disease that caused the Black Death pandemic, was reported Sunday. The case was discovered in the city of Bayannur, located northwest of Beijing, according to state-run Xinhua news GW plans to bring back students with altered schedule, health restrictions 07/05/2020 08:31pm • George Washington University plans to welcome students back to campus this fall, with some significant changes to the academic calendar. The university submitted its reopening plan to D.C. at the start of July and is awaiting final approval. As part of the plan, in-person classes for the fall FDA issues emergency authorization for combination flu and coronavirus test 07/03/2020 11:19am • As the coronavirus pandemic across the United States continues to grow this summer, health officials are concerned about the confluence of the new virus with the seasonal flu virus this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday offered emergency authorization to a new test to Pets and fireworks: How to keep your animals calm and safe on July 4 07/03/2020 08:26am • Fireworks explode like magnified gunfire in the exquisitely sensitive ears of many of our pets. Measuring between 150 and 175 decibels, fireworks are louder than gunfire (140 decibels) and even many planes at takeoff (120 decibels). Decibels measures the loudness of a sound while hertz measures t Weekend road and rail: Holiday weekend limits work zones; upcoming Beltway repairs 07/02/2020 01:22pm • This July 4th holiday weekend may see a slight uptick in pandemic-era travel, but nothing like our region has come to know in past years. One thing that will be the same, however, will be reduced roadwork during a long holiday weekend. There are a few long-term work zones to be aware of if you Richmond removes statue of Confederate officer Maury 07/02/2020 01:05pm • Richmond’s stately Monument Avenue looks slightly different Thursday than it did Wednesday, and will look different again in the near future. By 10 a.m. Thursday, the statue of astronomer and Confederate naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury had been removed by city work crews to cheers from 200 Experts warn: Those fireworks are not kid-friendly 07/02/2020 11:17am • With most municipal shows canceled and fireworks sales skyrocketing lately, local fire departments and paramedics are worried there could be a rise in tragic incidents this Fourth of July weekend, especially when it comes to kids. Some parts of the region allow fireworks such as sparklers and oth Highway worker killed as driver smashes into trucks setting up I-70 work zone 07/02/2020 08:53am • A highway construction worker was killed and two of his colleagues were injured when the driver of a Jeep crashed where they were working on eastbound Interstate 70 near U.S. Route 29 in Ellicott City, Maryland, at about 12:30 a.m. Thursday. Christopher Marsden, 34, of New Jersey, was pronounced Column: Now is the time for 'Redskins' to go 07/02/2020 05:03am • Fans of D.C.'s NFL team walk past Native Americans and supporters protesting the name and logo of the Washington Redskins before a game in Landover, Maryland, on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty) For all its challenges, 2020 has been a watershed moment in U.S. As Richmond's Confederate statues come down, Charlottesville's remain standing 07/02/2020 03:51am • Despite the fact Confederate monuments in Virginia's capital of Richmond have started to come down after Wednesday's emergency order by Mayor Levar Stoney, Charlottesville's statues, which in part led to the new law allowing localities to remove Confederate monuments, are still in place. "Here in Judge denies Virginia ACLU's request to bar irritant use 07/01/2020 12:00pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge has denied an emergency request by lawyers from the Virginia branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to bar police from using chemical irritants or other devices to disperse protesters. News outlets report Richmond Circuit Judge Beverly Snukals ruled Tuesday th Man's body found in Waldorf lake after woman hears him yelling for help 07/01/2020 08:33am • A man's body was recovered from a lake in Waldorf, Maryland, Tuesday after a woman heard him yelling for help. The Charles County Sheriff's Office said the woman heard the cries near a lake behind her house in the 11600 block of Fountain Head Court around 4:40 a.m. and called 911. Officers, me Loudoun Co. parents to decide in-school or distance learning 07/01/2020 08:20am • The Loudoun County School Board has voted to allow parents in the Northern Virginia school system to choose whether they want their children to be in their school classrooms twice per week and have three days of distance learning, or do 100% distance learning for the fall semester. In a nine-hour Car Review: Range Rover small SUV Evoque gets a makeover 06/29/2020 04:07am • Luxury SUVs are a staple for Range Rover, and now their smallest ride, the new 2020 Evoque, is redesigned to better fit the Range Rover image. It has new front-end styling borrowed from the larger Range Rover Velar, one of the best looking SUVs on the market. I drove the Evoque First Edition, only a