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Wait for it: Hamilton's return to Kennedy Center postponed amid pandemic 05/04/2020 02:44pm • WTOP's Jason Fraley holds his "Hamilton" playbill awaiting the show at the Kennedy Center in 2018. (WTOP/Jason Fraley) The return of the popular musical "Hamilton" to the Kennedy Center this summer has been postponed. The Kennedy Center and the musical’s producers have pulled the entire 14- Arlington’s $1.3B budget reflects the coronavirus impact 05/01/2020 04:10am • Arlington County, Virginia is expected to lose $56 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Getty Images) The Arlington County board approved a $1.3 billion fiscal 2021 budget that maintains its current level of services, but reveals an estimated loss of $56 million in revenue from m DC Mayor Bowser: New hospitals part of an emphasis on equity 04/30/2020 03:06pm • Saying that the COVID-19 health crisis is "laying bare the inequities in our system," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser provided more details Thursday about two new hospitals and several other medical centers that will open in the coming years and said they will "transform our health care system by promoting Seeking health care equity, DC will build 2 new hospitals 04/29/2020 11:45pm • D.C. announced two new hospitals will be built in the city that would address issues of health care equity among its residents. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the hospitals will be in Wards 1 and 8. “While D.C. continues to battle this pandemic, our team has remained committed to delivering hope a Virginians stuck at home are fed up with noise from Amazon headquarters project 04/29/2020 04:32am • The coronavirus pandemic has shut down American life as we know it, but construction remains underway on Amazon's second headquarters in Northern Virginia and is producing noise that's frustrating many homebound residents nearby. The Seattle-based online retail giant is building twin 22-story bui DC town hall on business recovery focuses on equity 04/28/2020 07:17pm • At a telephone town hall Tuesday afternoon, a group of D.C. leaders spoke on plans to aid businesses and workers during the COVID-19 public health crisis, and to help them rebuild afterward — with an emphasis on equity. Ashley Emerson, the executive director of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office of Getting unemployment benefits? What the fed, DC and Maryland will want back 04/28/2020 09:42am • Unemployment benefits are taxed, although how much depends on where you live. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File) The $1,200 federal stimulus checks many Americans are getting are not subject to income tax, but unemployment benefits are. Depending on where the recipient lives, he could be subject to Considering a divorce? Closed courthouses don't have to stop you 04/27/2020 06:55pm • Courts are closed in the D.C. area during the coronavirus pandemic, but people planning to dissolve marriages don't necessarily have to put those plans on hold. "What we're seeing is an uptick in mediation, which is really a great thing to consider," said Dianne Nolin, managing partner of Argent 'This is what a recession looks like.' D.C. officials offer grim financial outlook. 04/27/2020 08:49am • It could be two years before D.C. recovers from most of the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a newly released budget forecast by D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt. The District expects to lose as much as $721 million in revenue by the end of this year, largely due Deportees from U.S. make up 20% of Guatemala's COVID-19 cases 04/27/2020 06:02am • When it unveiled an unprecedented order last month to swiftly expel virtually all unauthorized migrants from the U.S. southern border, the Trump administration said potentially infected foreigners could spread the coronavirus in the U.S., prompt outbreaks in immigration jails and strain public hea Fairfax Co. teen uses 3D printing to help meet the demand for protective gear 04/25/2020 12:09pm • A Virginia teen is using a very special set of skills to make sure first responders and local businesses are getting the protective gear they need to serve the community. Aashray Manchanda is a junior at Fairfax High School and he's been working with 3D printing technology as part of a robotics c COVID-19 crisis blows a hole in DC's revenue, budget projections 04/24/2020 09:52pm • A cyclist wearing a face mask rides along Pennsylvania Avenue as the U.S. Capitol stands in the background amid the novel coronavirus outbreak on April 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images) The COVID-19 health crisis is doing a number on D.C.'s Study suggests coronavirus impact on travel will be 9 times worse than 9/11 04/23/2020 03:22pm • Nearly all segments of the U.S. economy seem to be shrinking, if not collapsing, but one of the hardest hit will be the travel industry. After all, how soon do you plan to hop on an airplane or head to a bustling theme park? A new study from the U.S. Travel Association suggests many people won Coronavirus reshapes Virginia's budget 04/22/2020 08:52am • Virginia lawmakers are headed back to work in Richmond, faced with a completely different economy than they had back on March 12 when they passed their $135 billion two-year budget. Reconvened sessions normally happen on the sixth Wednesday after adjournment of each regular or special session, bu Most of the Outer Banks opening up to property owners beginning May 4; visitors still restricted 04/22/2020 07:51am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Outer Banks leaders are opening up sections of the popular North Carolina barrier islands in phases — first to property owners, then ev