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US Department of Education issues Title IX violations to five Northern Virginia school divisions 07/25/2025 04:37pm • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday the U.S. Department of Education���s Office for Civil Rights found the policies of five Northern Virginia school divisions regarding sports and locker rooms violated the Title IX requirements in the Education Amendments of 1972. Fairfax County, Loudou Charity founded by kids in Potomac hopes to make swimming more accessible and safer 07/24/2025 05:30am • A Potomac, Maryland, organization founded by kids is making a splash ��� quite literally ��� as they work to make competitive swimming more accessible for all kids. In 2024, Maximus Devinney, 17, was lent a tech suit, which are worn by competitors during swim meets. It was this kind gesture t Hulu announces 'Only Murders in the Building' season 5 release date 07/23/2025 08:45pm • Only Murders in the Building season 5 has its release date. (Disney/Patrick Harbron) Only Murders in the Building season 5 has its release date. The Hulu show will premiere its first three episodes on Sept. 9. New episodes will debut weekly on the following Tuesdays. Steve Martin, Martin Erik Menendez in hospital, diagnosed with serious medical condition: Family 07/22/2025 04:40pm • Erik Menendez, 54, is in the hospital and has been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, his family confirmed to ABC News. The condition has not been disclosed. Erik and Lyle Menendez were resentenced in May to 50 years to life in prison, which makes them eligible for parole -- the lates Advice for parents worried about too much 'screen time' and not enough learning this summer 07/22/2025 05:10am • The summer weather has not been the most cooperative. When the heat and humidity haven't made it difficult to even open the door, it's probably been raining instead. Often enough, the alternative activity for your kids has involved some sort of screen, whether it's the television, a video game or 'It's taking your education one step further': Student satisfaction with Advanced Placement courses 07/22/2025 12:22am • Students got a chance to be the ones in charge of grading this year. For the first time this July, the College Board released the student satisfaction ratings of the Advanced Placement courses it offers. On a scale of 1 to 10, AP Calculus BC was given the highest score with an average rating o Climate activists rally at the White House in memory of those lost in Texas floods 07/21/2025 06:05pm • A rally and memorial was held on the Ellipse near the White House on Monday for the victims of the Kerr County, Texas, flood on the weekend after the Fourth of July. It was organized by climate activists and others who are demanding the full funding of the National Weather Service, the Nation Tips to keep DC-area children safe around pools, beaches and other bodies of water this summer 07/18/2025 07:13pm • In Virginia, at least eight children under the age of 5 have accidentally drowned in Virginia swimming pools since Memorial Day. That's more than the total number of drowning deaths in each of the last three years, according to Arlington County's Department of Health. In Arlington, there have bee Santa swaps sleigh for sirens in 'Christmas in July' celebration for NIH families 07/17/2025 07:22am • Santa Claus arrived in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Wednesday with a police escort ��� not because he was in trouble, but because he was spreading joy. The Children���s Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its annual "Christmas in July" celebration, a lighthearted event that off Applying for government benefits just got much easier in Maryland 07/15/2025 05:55pm • Applying for government assistance can be hard, stressful and a long ordeal ��� not to mention embarrassing. Maryland is trying to make the process easier, and cut down some of the red tape. "It is extremely stressful to sit here and have to go over and over and meet different people and have to Public school enrollment continues to fall, including in Virginia 07/15/2025 05:09pm • Across the country, public school enrollment has failed to rebound to pre-pandemic levels ��� and data suggests the decline is far from over. The National Center for Education Statistics��� data shows that public school enrollment in Virginia decreased 2.9% from fall 2019 to fall 2023. Accordi Laurel teens get summer curfew after fights, fireworks tossed 07/15/2025 04:20pm • D.C. is not the only city in the region that has expanded its youth curfew. After teens started fighting and shooting off fireworks at hot spots in Laurel, Maryland, the town is telling them to go home earlier. ���A lot of fights, fights at our town center, fights out at McDonald's on Route 1, t She never used to enjoy cooking. Now this Prince William Co. manager is making school meals kids actually like 07/14/2025 04:07am • Standing behind tall shelves and ovens in the back of the cafeteria at Bristow Run Elementary School, Rafaela Herrera is taking cooked hamburger patties off a long baking sheet and placing them onto buns with cheese that she had previously laid out. It's minutes before the lunch rush at the Princ It can be scary to be a refugee. New York���s famed culinary scene is teaching these newcomers to thrive 07/13/2025 08:00am • New York (CNN) ��� Alpha Oumar Diallo hunches over a kitchen counter at a library caf�� in Brooklyn, his nose hovering above a plastic container of brownie batter. Eyebrows furrowed, he tries to pinpoint where this batch went wrong. ���I don���t know what you did,��� chef Ashley Fils-Aime lecture John Lyon, longtime DC radio host dies, spent decades quietly seeking answers, justice for murdered daughters 07/12/2025 02:19pm • John Lyon, whose 22-year career at WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. coincided with his family's quiet, determined search for answers in the 1975 disappearance of his young daughters, Sheila and Katherine, has died at the age of 85, according to his family. "He was a great father, a great model