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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday a new coronavirus contact tracing tool for smartphone users. Beginning Tuesday, residents with iPhone or Android smartphones will receive a push notification asking them to opt into exposure notifications for D.C. COVID Alert Notice (CAN). If enabled, a users’ phone will “regularly” emit a …

D.C. officials added eight states to its list of high-risk states that its residents should avoid nonessential travel to. Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Islands join 31 other states on the District’s list, which consist of states with a seven-day moving average of daily new coronavirus cases at 10 or more

Whitman-Walker’s annual Walk & 5K to End HIV will be held virtually this year, with the goal of raising $400,000 to ensure equality, fight racism and save lives. The 34th annual event, which supports the organization’s mission of keeping some 20,000 or more patients healthy and thriving, invites the D.C. region and beyond to participate

A group of community and health advocates and organizations have banded together for a campaign pushing D.C. lawmakers to help stop the sale of flavored tobacco products to teenagers in the city. The Flavor Hook Kids DC campaign also aims to stop the sale of flavored tobacco to minority communities, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic

Montgomery County officials said they will suspend efforts to change an executive order loosening some coronavirus-related restrictions amid a recent resurgence in cases. Dr. Earl Stoddard, director of Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, said at a virtual briefing Thursday that the county’s cases per 100,000 is the highest point since Aug.

A work group composed of Maryland lawmakers approved recommendations Thursday for law enforcement agencies to ban chokeholds, limit the use of no-knock warrants and enforce penalties for violating use-of-force statutes. Most of the recommendations were approved along party lines, with the majority of Democrats seeking significant reform amid a nationwide outcry against police-related deaths and

The Maryland Department of Labor has flagged hundreds of thousands of possibly fraudulent unemployment claims filed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, finding that 82% of those claims were illegitimate. An initial investigation over the summer exposed over 40,000 claims linked to what authorities said was a “massive and sophisticated criminal enterprise,” while a

Almost a quarter of positive coronavirus cases in the District have been linked to social events with five or more attendees, the city’s health director said Wednesday. Social events involving family and friends yielded the highest percentage of infections, followed by workplaces at nearly 22%, restaurants and bars at 21% …

Amid the economic, health and educational uncertainties caused by the coronavirus, an equally virulent pandemic co-exists: the increased instances of intimate partner violence. On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner or parent in the United States. In a single year, this equates to more than 10 million women,

This is the final installment of a four-part series about D.C. State Board of Education (SBOE) races. The winners will advocate and organize policy on behalf of students, teachers, and parents in Wards 2,7 and 8,and throughout the entire city. In this article, three of the four candidates are vying for the Ward 2 SBOE