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COVID-19 pandemic has piled many more tasks on oldest child 12/17/2020 04:20pm • Katherine Banegas-Bonilla, a high school student at Baltimore City College, has much more to do at home since classes went virtual. (Photo by Megan Sayles/Capital News Service) BALTIMORE — A year ago, 17-year-old Katherine Banegas-Bonilla had to worry only about managing her classes at Baltimo Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' finally hits streaming for quarantined audiences 12/15/2020 02:49pm • When Christopher Nolan's sci-fi/action flick "Tenet" stubbornly opened in theaters back on Sept. 3, many folks chose to skip it due to COVID-19 restrictions, reducing its domestic box-office to a measly $58 million compared to $302 million internationally. That's a huge drop from Nolan's bigg Starbucks suspends 'Happy Hour' promotions as COVID-19 cases rise 12/15/2020 11:47am • Starbucks is temporarily suspending its buy-one-get-one drink deals, better known as "Happy Hour," in an effort to reduce the number of customers in its stores as U.S. COVID-19 cases rise. In an announcement Tuesday the company scrapped the next planned Happy Hours, scheduled for December 17 and Qiagen expands Montgomery County operations 12/11/2020 01:40pm • Qiagen’s U.S. headquarters and research and development manufacturing facility is in Germantown, Maryland. (Credit: Google Street View) Dutch medical testing company Qiagen, which has seen huge demand for its COVID-19 test kits, is expanding its manufacturing operations in Montgomery County, M DC's Drafthouse Comedy permanently closes because of pandemic 12/10/2020 04:04pm • Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse opened Drafthouse Comedy at 1100 13th St. in Northwest D.C. four years ago. (Credit: Google Street View) D.C. comedy club Drafthouse Comedy in the downtown area has closed permanently due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. “Under current circumstanc DC's Smoke & Barrel closes, hopes to downsize 11/30/2020 05:15pm • Smoke & Barrel, at 2471 18th St. Northwest, opened in 2011 with the slogan "Beer, BBQ and Bourbon." (Credit: Google Street View) Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information about the closure. Popular Adams Morgan BBQ joint and pub Smoke & Barrel has closed, though Baltimore Co. schools laptops, Google accounts safe to use following ransomware attack 11/29/2020 08:35pm • Baltimore County Public Schools said its school system-issued Chromebook laptops and county schools' Google accounts are safe to use after the district suffered a ransomware attack to its IT infrastructure. The announcement comes after BCPS canceled classes for Monday, Nov. 30 and Tuesday, Dec. 1 Data Doctors: Why smartphone pay systems are safer 11/27/2020 06:30pm • Q: Are the smartphone-based payment systems safe to use? The holiday season means more items being purchased both online and offline, and how you pay for those items isn’t as simple as it used to be. Credit cards are still the safest way to make purchases, especially online, because they pro The spiritual mysteries of 'The Mandalorian' 11/22/2020 05:21am • In Disney's hit show "The Mandalorian," the title character has defeated a dragon, massive ice spiders and a horde of ugly squid-face creatures called Quarren. But in a recent episode, the stoic bounty hunter faced perhaps his most fearsome foe: pluralism. For the uni US Navy strongly opposed to Capital Beltway widening project 11/21/2020 06:07am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. This aerial image shows the edge of Naval Support Activity Bethesda ― home to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center ― near the Inside the FBI's search for the dark web kingpin of Silk Road 11/10/2020 11:03pm • ▶ Watch Video: The FBI Declassified: Dangerous Journey on the Silk Road Through never-before-seen footage and in-depth interviews,  "The FBI Declassified" takes you inside the minds of heroic federal agents and analysts as they reveal how they solved some of the biggest cases of thei Department of Health offers COVID-19 exposure tracking app 11/10/2020 08:02pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland’s Department of Health launched its MD COVID Alert system Tuesday in an effort to bolster the state’s contact tracing effort Man found shot to death at New Carrollton Metro station 11/09/2020 07:27am • One man is dead after a shooting at the New Carrollton Metro station in Maryland Sunday night. Metro Transit police said around 11:20 p.m. they found a man who had been shot multiple times in the bus bay area near Ellin Road in West Lanham Hills. He died on the scene. The Ellin Road entranc Data Doctors: Why Snapseed is a great photo editing app for smartphones 11/06/2020 03:04pm • Q: Looking for more photo editing options for my smartphone — any app suggestions? The sophistication and technology built into our smartphones has consigned the use of traditional point-and-shoot cameras to a very small percentage of users. Estimates are that over 90% of images captured in 202 Who won? How WTOP will report election results 11/02/2020 04:08am • The 2020 presidential race, occurring during a once-in-a-century pandemic, is one of the most unique in U.S. history. Election Day will be very different this year and media organizations will need to be extremely careful in how they report results — not only for the presidential contest, but a