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5 ways nonprofits can win at talent management in 2023 01/23/2023 12:57pm • There’s no getting around it: The last couple of years have been challenging for human resources teams in the social impact sector — particularly recruiting and retaining talent. Since 2020, nonprofits have seen “decreases in revenue, decreases in funding, decreases in opportunities to Jeff Zients, Biden's former COVID czar, set to serve as next chief of staff 01/22/2023 01:46pm • President Biden is set to choose Jeff Zients, his former COVID-19 policy czar, to serve as his next chief of staff, according to two people familiar with the matter. Zients is expected to take the job shortly after the president's State of the Union address on Feb. 7, the people familiar with How Big Tech's pandemic bubble burst 01/22/2023 08:11am • In January 2021, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke in lofty terms about how the first year of the pandemic had sparked a staggering shift toward online services, benefiting his company in the process. "What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation s Lunar New Year 2023: Ways to celebrate in the DC region 01/20/2023 10:18am • The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, is one of the most important and most celebrated holidays in China and many parts of Asia — and the D.C. region will be celebrating it in many ways. Penny Lee, public relations officer for the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Washington, D.C After the blast: 3 families devastated by Montgomery Co. condo blast share struggle to pick up the pieces 01/18/2023 07:15am • Sarah St. Jour and her husband Marc as well as the couple's 8-month-old daughter stand with Sequoia Royster and her son Zyir Cooper (from left to right). (WTOP/Mike Murillo) On Nov. 16, an explosion and fire ripped through the Potomac Oaks Condominium in Gaithersburg, Maryland, destroying two bu Review: Jury still out on whether NBC's 'Night Court' reboot can make us laugh 01/18/2023 04:31am • After mining laughs from a police department in "Barney Miller" (1975-1982) and a military surgical unit in "M*A*S*H" (1972-1983), TV writer Reinhold Weege created the beloved sitcom "Night Court” (1984-1992) about the night shift of a Manhattan municipal court. Nominated for 31 Emmys and w Woodbridge man killed in shooting identified by police 01/17/2023 11:26am • A Woodbridge man is dead and another man is wounded after a shooting Monday night in Prince William County, Virginia, police said. Akeem Rashad Williams, 27, of Woodbridge died and a 22-year-old man who hasn't been identified by name was also injured, according to Prince William County police. 2% cash back credit cards 01/15/2023 05:45am • Cash back credit cards offer an opportunity to get some money back every time you make a purchase, but how you earn that cash back can vary from card to card. Credit cards with 2% cash back allow you to earn a great rewards rate, regardless of where you spend your money. However, they also limit Spice Suite opens new Langdon Park store, aims to empower Black women entrepreneurs 01/13/2023 08:07pm • When Angel Gregorio closed on the property at 2201 Channing St. in Northeast D.C., it was the home of a tow truck company and little was happening in the industrial neighborhood. It was "ugly and gross," she said. But after buying the commercial area in December 2021, the entrepreneur envisioned Man arrested after McDonald’s stabbings in Silver Spring 01/12/2023 09:38am • A man is under arrest following a stabbing incident at a McDonald's in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this week. Theodore Andrew Brandy, 34, is suspected of stabbing three men inside the McDonald's in the 8400 block of Colesville Road on Tuesday morning.  All three victims suffered injuries th 11 best weekend getaways from DC 01/10/2023 11:00am • There's no denying the countless things to do and see in our nation's capital. However, the nonstop pace of Washington, D.C., can wear anyone out, and sometimes a weekend getaway is just what the doctor ordered. Luckily, D.C.'s central mid-Atlantic location gives travelers easy access to top destina Electric vehicles at CES give a peek at the future of battery-driven transportation 01/09/2023 12:50pm • If one were to stroll through the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the venue that housed the Consumer Electronics Show’s behemoth automotive exhibition over the past few days, you’d be excused for thinking that all vehicles presently in circulation are electric. After all, pretty 'Don't feel safe': Brightwood planning community meeting after deadly shooting 01/06/2023 09:17pm • A longtime D.C. resident recently told Kim Patterson, a newly-elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and vice president of the Brightwood Community Association, that she no longer plans to take the bus from Georgia Avenue downtown. The woman's brother had previously mentioned that he wasn't c Smithsonian 'Castle' on National Mall to close for 5-year restoration 01/05/2023 03:50pm • One of the National Mall's iconic landmarks will close soon for a years-long restoration. D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution Building, widely known as "the Castle" owing to its Gothic revival architecture and sandstone exterior, will close to the public starting Feb. 1 to kick off its first major ren DC woman tracked lost luggage's odyssey using AirTag 01/04/2023 03:37pm • A woman in D.C. has finally gotten a bag that was lost on a United Airlines flight home last week — after she spent five days tracking the bag using AirTags that showed it was at an apartment complex just 2 miles away from her house. Valerie Szybala told WTOP her bag was separated from her on a