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Shen Wu Tan was a general assignment reporter, with a focus on health news, at The Washington Times.

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Eat Just, a San Francisco-based company, received regulatory approval to sell its laboratory-grown cultured meat in chicken nugget form. (Eat Just)

Synthetic chicken nuggets approved for consumption

Eat Just, a San Francisco-based company that develops meat alternatives, this week received the first-in-the-world regulatory approval from Singapore to sell its laboratory-grown cultured meat in the form of chicken nuggets.

December 3, 2020
In this file photo, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks during a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

D.C. expanding COVID testing for public schools

The District is expanding coronavirus testing for its public schools students and staff as local coronavirus infections climb and the U.S. undergoes another surge in infections.

December 2, 2020
Average math scores were lower by 5 and 10 percentile points for students this year compared to last year, according to a new report. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Report: Students lagging in math during pandemic school year

Elementary and middle school students are falling behind in math skills this year compared to last year, highlighting the challenges of learning during the coronavirus pandemic, an assessment by an education research nonprofit found.

December 1, 2020
For the 21st annual Feast of Sharing event, Safeway and Events DC on Tuesday distributed thousands of Thanksgiving meal boxes and gift bags to local nonprofits to distribute to those in need. (Courtesy of Safeway)

Feast of Sharing shifts into delivery mode due to pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic may be crimping some people's holiday plans, but it's not stopping nonprofits and businesses from giving back to the community. On Tuesday, Safeway and Events DC kicked off the 21st annual Feast of Sharing, offering 5,000 Thanksgiving meal boxes and 5,000 gift boxes for delivery to 20 D.C.-area nonprofits to distribute to people in need.

November 24, 2020
Ashley Gannon, left, reads a book as she and others wait in line outside a New York City Health + Hospitals COVID testing site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Gannon says she gets tested periodically to make sure she is coronavirus-free. Some said they waited more than two hours to get a rapid test, one of two kinds of tests available at this particular site. Workers at the site said rapid test results take one to two days, while a regular test could take two to four days. At this testing site, there were longer lines for the rapid test as they are not available at all sites. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Thanksgiving travelers swamp coronavirus testing sites

A long line of masked D.C. residents snaked around a coronavirus testing site exactly a week before Thanksgiving, as a steady stream of motorists zipped into the parking lot to get their noses swabbed.

November 22, 2020
Tropical Storm Eta delivered heavy downpours and wind gusts across the East Coast on Thursday.

Eta brings heavy rainfall along East Coast

Tropical Storm Eta delivered heavy downpours and wind gusts Thursday over parts of the East Coast as it weakened and moved offshore, traveling parallel to the Carolinas in the Atlantic Ocean.

November 12, 2020