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A provision in the latest Covid stimulus package nixes people’s monthly COBRA premiums. Health care advocates worry people will miss out on the relief though.

The government will pay for laid off workers to maintain their employer-sponsored health insurance through September.

A pause on student loan payments will leave most borrowers with extra cash through September. These are the best ways to use the money, according to experts.

New President Joe Biden is already being spotted in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods.  Four days after Inauguration Day, the president attended Mass on Sunday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown and then his motorcade made a stop at the deli Call Your Mother.  Biden waved to a crowd of cheering onlookers near the bagel shop at 35th and O...

With the spring semester nearly underway, and Covid cases rising, Georgetown plans to maintain distance learning. That doesn’t sit well with many undergrads.

A law protecting the tech industry from liability for their users’ posts continues to be on shaky ground as President-elect Joe Biden prepares for office.

A scathing report from the Trump administration on Tuesday concluded that top U.S. universities have “massively underreported” funding they accept from China, Russia and other nations described as “foreign adversaries.”

Two Georgetown police officers are recovering after they were injured in a shooting with a person suspected of trying to break into a home Wednesday morning, police said. The suspect was fatally shot by an officer, police said. A 911 caller told dispatchers at about 11:19 p.m. that someone was trying to break into their home on Garden Meadow Drive…

Historians are hopeful that one of the four human skeletons recently found in the basement a Georgetown home could belong to one of the most famous slaves in the history of Washington, D.C.

The neighbors who filed a lawsuit against a family in the Austin area over the size of a playscape they built in their own backyard are dropping the suit, NBC’s Austin affiliate KXAN reports. When 3-year-old Colton Costa, who has a terminal disease, learned he could pick out which playscape his parents would buy, he chose the one with...

Three men incarcerated for 36 years in Maryland were exonerated Monday in the slaying of a Baltimore teenager after a review of their case. Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart were released from custody hours after a judge cleared their convictions and prosecutors dropped the charges. They were teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984....

Georgetown University students who planned to spend the rest of the fall semester in Hong Kong will be headed home early amid violent clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police.

Police in D.C. and Montgomery County say they have arrested the Potomac River Rapist who killed a D.C. intern and raped nine women over the course of seven years in the 1990s.

A number of parents in the college admissions scandal, including actress Lori Loughlin, were hit with a new grand jury indictment adding a conspiracy to commit bribery charge against them, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The parents, who were all arrested in March in the alleged nationwide bribery scheme, “conspired to commit federal program bribery by bribing employees of the University...

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com’s high school football rankings following Week 7, distributed by The Associated Press, with rank, team and team’s record in parentheses, last week’s result and last week’s ranking.

Testifying in defiance of President Donald Trump’s ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators Friday that Trump himself had pressured the State Department to oust her from her post and get her out of the country. Yovanovitch told lawmakers investigating Trump’s dealings with Ukraine that there was a “concerted campaign” against her based on “unfounded...

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps a wild weekend of high school football in North Texas.

Two associates of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani, involved in his efforts in Ukraine, were arrested Wednesday on charges of campaign finance violations. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested at Dulles International Airport Wednesday evening while attempting to leave the country with one-way tickets. NBC’s Alice Barr reports.

Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com’s high school football rankings following Week 6, distributed by The Associated Press, with rank, team and team’s record in parentheses, last week’s result and last week’s ranking.

NBC 5’s Pat Doney recaps a wild weekend of high school football in North Texas that included last second wins, a near top-10 upset and an MVP Bobblehead award given to a DeSoto running back who had one of the best games of the year.