The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened its doors to the public on Oct. 26 with new coronavirus safety restrictions.  The museum is reopening with timed-entry tickets and requiring visitors to wear face masks. Visitors will have to go through a temperature check and answer health screening questions upon entry.  Since its closure, the museum has updated its heating, ventilation,…

With the daily case count rising this month, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said the city is discouraging residents from traditional door-to-door trick-or-treating this year.

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Thousands of voters donning masks are lining up to participate in early voting throughout Maryland today. Early voting will continue until the day before Election Day in the state. As folks gather at voting centers, Maryland’s coronavirus data points to rising cases, deaths and hospitalizations. Maryland reported high numbers of COVID-19 infections on Saturday (796) and yesterday (792). The highest…

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The superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute has resigned, the school’s board president announced in a statement Monday, a week after state officials ordered an investigation into what they characterized as a culture of “ongoing structural racism.†Retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III tendered his resignation Monday, and the Board of Visitors accepted it “with deep regret,†board President…

A police officer was shot and wounded in Old Town Alexandria on Monday morning, and the suspect was later found dead after an exchange of gunfire, police say. Residents in the area were told to stay indoors for a period but there is now no threat to the public, officials said in an update.

Maryland voters lined up on Monday for a busy, record-breaking first day of in-person early voting in the state. The first early voters began lining up before dawn outside the Silver Spring Civic Center and elsewhere. This is a “pivotal election†and it’s important to recognize “the massive level of sacrifices that have been made by African Americans for the…