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U.Va. Health has launched Virginia’s first dedicated robotic heart surgery program as a less invasive alternative to traditional open-heart surgery.

Loudoun Supervisor Juli Briskman announced a run for board chair, saying she wants to curb data center growth and its impact on county residents.

Several days after an arbitrator ordered the Washington Post to reinstate fired opinion writer Karen Attiah, she tells WTOP she’s still hasn’t gotten a phone call about returning to work.

In the so-called “data center capital of the world,” Algonkian District Supervisor Juli Briskman told WTOP she will run for chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in Virginia next year, with a top priority of “stopping data centers.”

Prince George's County, Maryland, has the mid-Atlantic's highest share of households with a shadow buyer, at 8%. In Prince William County, Virginia, the share is 7.1%

VDOT said it's doing a feasibility study with Transurban, which builds and maintains the express lanes network in Northern Virginia, on adding lanes and transforming them into two-way operations, 24 hours a day.

Cardiologists at UVA Health are using a new type of leadless pacemaker in an ongoing clinical trial that could help patients with slow heart rhythms while preserving the natural timing between the heart's upper and lower chambers.

The superintendent of Prince George's County Public Schools has acknowledged responsibility in the ongoing transportation crisis during the first week of the new school year, and is giving the Maryland school system the grade of “F” in how it has handled the rollout of a new bus tracking app.

Despite Prince George's County Public Schools saying it has cleared a backlog of 10,000 students who hadn't been assigned a bus route, some parents Monday said their children still don't have a complete bus schedule, and others chose to drive their children to school amid the confusion.

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one.