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Eta weakens to tropical storm, poised to strike Florida second time

Eta was downgraded to a tropical storm after briefly regaining strength as a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday as it prepared to strike Florida a second time.

November 11, 2020

Tropical Storm Eta drenches South Florida neighborhoods

Tropical Storm Eta hovered Tuesday over the coast of western Cuba after drenching South Florida on Monday as a record-setting 29th named storm headed east over the Atlantic.

November 10, 2020

Wildfires damages as high as record-setting $150 billion

Researchers project economic losses as high as $150 billion. The fires already have displaced thousands of people and destroyed millions of acres of land.

November 9, 2020

WHO investigating mink farming after mutated coronavirus spreads to humans

The World Health Organization is investigating the biosecurity of mink farming globally after Denmark ordered its entire herd to be killed to try to contain a mutated form of the coronavirus that has spread to humans.

November 6, 2020

D.C., Montgomery County eye coronavirus restrictions as cases surge

Officials in D.C. and Maryland are altering travel advisories, delaying reopening plans and proposing additional restrictions to combat rising coronavirus cases as the region and the country as a whole struggle with another surge in COVID-19 infections.

November 5, 2020

NASA confirms spacecraft collected and stored enough of its first-ever asteroid rubble

NASA this week confirmed it has collected and stored enough of its first-ever asteroid rubble to send back to Earth.

October 30, 2020

Zeta kills 3 in South, weakens in northeast path

Zeta weakened to a post-tropical cyclone as it swept northeastward across Southern states Thursday after hitting Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane, killing at least three people and leaving millions without electricity.

October 29, 2020

Hurricane Zeta strikes Louisiana as Category 2 storm

Hurricane Zeta made landfall Wednesday evening near Cocodrie, Louisiana, as a Category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of about 110 mph, delivering a dangerous storm surge along portions of the Gulf Coast.

October 28, 2020

Hurricane Zeta aims for Louisiana, residents told to ‘hunker down’

Weather forecasters urged Gulf Coast residents to seek shelter or evacuate Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Zeta's expected landfall in southeastern Louisiana, warning of damaging winds, heavy rainfall, coastal flooding and possible tornadoes.

October 28, 2020

Lab in Rockville, Md., approved to resume coronavirus tests again

A genetics lab, which was previously one of Montgomery County's largest coronavirus test suppliers, this week received approval to resume COVID-19 testing after the state ordered the company to stop administering these tests.

October 28, 2020

Tropical Storm Zeta expected to strengthen to hurricane, strike Louisiana

Gulf Coast residents braced Tuesday for more torrential showers as Tropical Storm Zeta swept north toward Louisiana after having made landfall as a hurricane in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

October 27, 2020

Intensifying Colorado fire grows thousands of acres

The East Troublesome Fire in Colorado, which forced hundreds to evacuate this week, grew another 45,000 acres Thursday afternoon and evening.

October 23, 2020

Colorado fires spreading quickly, forcing hundreds to evacuate

Hundreds of residents in north-central Colorado have evacuated the area to escape an intensifying wildfire, as officials prepared for another day of rapid fire spread despite weather forecasts predicting lower temperatures for the region.

October 22, 2020

Arlington schools to resume online teaching after internet outage

Arlington Public Schools officials said they will resume online instruction Thursday morning after having canceled all remote learning Wednesday because of a severed fiber optic cable that halted the school system's web portal.

October 21, 2020

Osiris-Rex, NASA spacecraft, takes sample of rubble from asteroid 200 million miles from Earth

NASA scientists on Tuesday appeared to make a successful historic collection of its first samples from an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth.

October 20, 2020

NIH launches human trial to test three drugs against COVID-19

The National Institutes of Health has started a phase three trial to test the safety and effectiveness of three therapeutic drugs for the coronavirus.

October 16, 2020

One in four U.S. labs are short coronavirus test kits

One in four U.S. labs doesn't have enough coronavirus test kits, while one-third don't have supplies for routine bacteria detection, according to a data collection tool.

October 16, 2020

Social events responsible for most coronavirus cases in D.C.

Almost a quarter of positive coronavirus cases in the District have been linked to social events with five or more attendees, the city's health director said Wednesday.

October 14, 2020

Scientists confirm first case of coronavirus reinfection in U.S.

Scientists confirmed this week the first reinfection of a coronavirus patient in the U.S. — a 25-year-old man in Nevada.

October 13, 2020

D.C. extends public health emergency until end of 2020

The District has extended its public health emergency to the end of the year, and is urging people who attended recent White House events to get tested for COVID-19.

October 8, 2020