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The chess players at the event at Harold Washington Library were seasoned competitors, and they're all still students in the ...

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D.C. residents, businesses and even the Washington Commanders are firing up lobbying efforts to pass a bill allowing the city to keep spending its 2025 budget. The bill, which would allow the city ...