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Health Team Works To Keep Kids Healthy

In 2005, 6 percent of all babies in the United States born with HIV were from Washington, D.C., but thanks to better screening and medical advances, there hasn’t been a baby born with HIV in the District since 2009.

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Berliner: Pepco Rate Increase Best Consumers Could Get

Maryland state regulators rejected Pepco's call for a 4 percent rate increase in favor of a much more modest bump in fees. Montgomery County council president Roger Berliner says that was the best ratepayers could do.

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D.C. HIV Activists Shout Mayor Gray Off Stage

At a press conference at the International AIDS Conference in D.C., a group of HIV/AIDS activists shouted D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray off the stage for not addressing assisted housing for those afflicted with the deadly disease.

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D.C. Unemployment Rate Drops Slightly In June

The unemployment rate in D.C. dropped slightly last month, due to a combination of jobs added in both the private sector and the federal government.

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BWI Airport Receives Grant To Improve Runways

BWI-Marshall Airport has received a $12 million grant for the first phase of bringing Runway 10-28 up to FAA safety standards.
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Housing Starts In D.C. Area Increase

Housing starts and home sales in the D.C. region have increased since last month.

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Minimum Wage Debate Comes Back To Capitol Hill

It's been three years since the federal government increased the national minimum wage, and activists and lawmakers alike plan to rally this week to call for a hike in the national pay standard.

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National Zoo Hatches A Pair Of Cuban Crocodiles

With less than 4,000 Cuban crocodiles left in the wild, it was a big achievement this month when the National Zoo hatched a pair of males, for the first time in a quarter century.

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ACLU Defends Maryland Citizens' Right To Record Police

Maryland citizens have the right to record police on the job — a point the ACLU is pressing upon police in the state.

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Gray Campaign Improperly Used Public Housing Data

The improprieties conducted by D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign continue to stack up, as a report from the Washingon Post alleges that the campaign illegally used a public housing database to target specific voters.

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Global Village At AIDS Conference Engages Visitors With Advocates

The Global Village is free and open to people who want to meet and interact with the people who fight against AIDS worldwide.

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Montgomery County Ride On Buses On Limited Schedule

Montgomery County's Ride On bus system is operating on a reduced schedule Monday and Tuesday, due to last week's bus fire.

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Richmond Highway Plan Will Affect Cemetery Or Stables

Federal officials are weeks away from making a final decision about how and where to widen Virginia's Richmond Highway to accommodate an expansion at Fort Belvior.

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Iowa Senator Investigating FDA Spy Program

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is continuing his probe of the Food and Drug Administration over what he says was an effort to spy on government employees.

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Little Progress On Federal Budget Talks

Members of Congress are under the gun to find trillions of dollars in budget cuts before automatic reductions known as "sequestration" kick in early next year.

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Colo. Shooting Suspect's Family: Hearts Go Out To Victims, Families

Arlene Holmes, the suspects mother, said her initial comments have been taken out of the context.
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Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead

Ride was a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford when she answered an ad to become a NASA astronaut. She became the first American woman in space when she blasted off in the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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Penn State Fined $60M, Banned From Bowls, Wins From 1998 On Vacated

A "conspiracy of silence" allowed former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky to continue preying on young boys, the athletic association said.

International

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Phone Hacking Probe Extends To Stolen Cellphones

A British investigation also found that Rupert Murdoch's tabloids accessed medical and other personal records illegally.
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Dozens Dead After Iraq's Bloodiest Day This Year

A series of apparently coordinated attacks in at least 13 cities also injured hundreds of people.
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Many Muslim Olympians Get A Break On Ramadan Fasting

Hundreds of Muslim athletes are participating in the London Olympics, which officially begin Friday. But along with travel and other logistics, they're also adjusting to Ramadan, the holy month that requires them to fast.
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It's Deja Vu As Pakistan's Political Crisis Deepens

Pakistan's Supreme Court has given the prime minister until Wednesday to ask Swiss authorities to reopen an old corruption investigation of President Asif Ali Zardari. The premier has refused, and the court is threatening to find him in contempt of court and remove him — as it did his predecessor.

Arts & Culture

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Art Beat With Sean Rameswaram, July 24

Town of Runners, Imperial Paintings, and Rufus Wainwright.

Politics

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Wheaton Costco Gas Station Zoning Up For Vote

A vote on potential zoning changes in Montgomery County that would preclude a Costco "mega" gas station from being built close to residential areas is up for vote on Tuesday.

Food

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Ordering Food Online? That'll Be More Calories, Cost And Complexity

It may be easy to order food online, but it's also more pricey and more calorific compared to traditional ways of ordering, says a new study. It seems we lose our personal inhibitions when we don't have to talk to the seller or see other customers.

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Stanford's Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees?

Now that Stanford, Harvard and other top American universities are offering free online courses, will students one day be able to get course credits and degrees online from these schools without having to pay for it? Stanford's president says his school "can see moving in that direction."