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Happy Monday. DC officials are urging residents to opt into a new mobile contact tracing program, which launches tomorrow on iPhone and Android phones in the city.

Starting today, residents of the D.C. area may spot helicopters flying at rather low altitudes above the city and surrounding region ahead of the presidential inauguration.

A helicopter flying low over the Washington area on Monday was measuring naturally occurring background radiation as part of security efforts for the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National…

The barely year-old Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce has hired its first executive director as the organization gears up for a big fall.

The National Gallery of Art will reopen more galleries next week, but for the first winter in 20 years it will not reopen its popular ice-skating rink in the Sculpture Garden.

A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” the first of three such planned measures to restrict the…

It’s not a total goodbye. The shop is hoping to pop up elsewhere.

Orange delivered a speech to a 50-person crowd at the Mansion on O Street in Dupont Sunday evening.

The Shaw restaurant will have a new four-course prix-fixe menu.

Kobe Bryant’s game-worn 2008 National Basketball Association Finals jersey is now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The District is launching a new smartphone app to assist in contact tracing as it continues the fight against coronavirus — but it won’t work with a similar tool for Virginia, and Maryland doesn’t have one yet.

Residents can opt in beginning Tuesday, and then be notified if they've unwittingly come into contact with a positive case.

The District’s COVID-19 exposure notification tool will launch this week, the city announced Monday.