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It’s only Monday, and we already have some good news for animal lovers and parents who have been cooped up with their small children for months: Two Smithsonian institutions will reopen to visitors this Friday, July 24.

Metro announced on Monday that rail and bus hours and service will expand beginning in mid-August.

The chemical giant Monsanto will pay the District of Columbia $52 million dollars, as part of a settlement over toxic contamination in D.C. waterways. It’s one of the largest environmental settlements ever in the city.

The world has changed since D.C.’s social studies standards were created 14 years ago.

As school systems continue to figure out how or whether to welcome back students for on-campus learning this fall, a DC private school is taking to the parking lots.

Fifty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his soaring “I Have A Dream” speech on the Mall before hundreds of thousands, his oldest son will join civil rights leaders and the families of black men and women slain…

The television news cameras are gone, along with the T-shirt vendors, tents and free hot dogs. The swelling crowds of protesters who inspired the birth of Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington have largely dissipated.

Local bands can use all the accolades they can get to boost recognition these days.

Unemployment rates remain near historic highs and they continued to fall in 42 states and the District of Columbia in June. During that month, D.C., Maryland and Virginia regained tens of thousands of jobs.