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‘Scary': How a woman discovered deepfakes of herself
When Amanda Aguilar saw a video of what appeared to be her speaking, she was stunned. It looked just like her – but it wasn’t. The video was a deepfake.
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Family of 2nd grader injured in school bathroom incident plans to sue district
The parents of a Charles County, Maryland, second grader injured in a school bathroom incident plan to sue the school system. School officials say an alleged accident during horseplay left the boy hanging on a stall hook at Barnhart Elementary School in Waldorf a week-and-a-half ago. He had to be rushed to the hospital. The family says they’re still...
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Excitement grows as Washington Spirit heads to championship
The popularity of women’s sports is on the rise all around the country, with basketball stars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese also driving up the excitement.
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Georgetown University president to step down amid health challenges
DeGoia, who suffered a stroke in June, was the longest-serving president of the school, at 23 years.
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Girl, 14, sentenced for role in fatal beating of DC man
A judge sentenced a D.C. teenager to about three-and-a-half years for her role in the beating death of a 64-year-old man last year. Reggie Brown was battling cancer and weighed just 110 pounds when he a man in a blue coat attacked him in Northwest in October 2023. Five girls, ages 12-to-15, joined the attack, kicking and stomping on Brown…
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Speech therapist shortage in Montgomery County schools affects students in need
Online job listings for Montgomery County Public Schools show Ashburton Elementary is one of eight schools looking for an SLP who can start immediately.
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Children's Inn at NIH set to expand facility, construct new one in 2027
“I know I have to do what I have to do to survive,” said Markus Forrester, a patient at the National Institutes of Health. Forrester was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder in 2013, but did not believe his complications would continue for more than a decade. His lungs collapsed seven times, and he’s still recovering from a double lung…
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LGBTQ+ crisis hotline sees 700% surge in calls, spike in pranks post-election
On Nov. 6, one day after the 2024 election, one LGBTQ+ crisis hotline says it saw 700% more calls than normal. It’s a record number of calls for the Trevor Project’s suicide prevention hotline, and a sign of the impact of the 2024 election.
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Did you get a racist text? DC misinformation expert says ‘don't play into it'
People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.
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Inside a ballot canvassing center at core of the razor-thin MD 6th District race
More than two days after Election Day, the winner of Maryland’s 6th Congressional District remains too close to call as thousands of ballots have yet to be counted. Democratic candidate April McClain-Delaney currently leads her Republican opponent Neil Parrott by a razor-thin margin of a little under 400 votes. Inside a ballot canvassing center in Germantown, election workers swore an…
