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A partir de este miércoles, McDonald’s ha entrado oficialmente en la guerra de los sándwiches de pollo de comida rápida lanzando tres nuevos sándwiches de pollo frito en todo el país: Crispy, Spicy y Deluxe. Aunque McDonald’s tiene una variedad de opciones con pollo, se unirá a varias otras cadenas ofreciendo populares sándwiches de pollo. […]

Starting Wednesday, McDonald’s has officially entered the fast-food chicken sandwich war launching three new fried chicken sandwiches nationwide: the Crispy, the Spicy and the Deluxe. Though McDonald’s does have a variety of chicken options, it will join several other chains with popular chicken sandwiches. “We’ve heard our customers loud and clear, and we know they’re craving more […]

Celebrity chef Guy Fieri has opened more than 100 delivery-only, pop-up restaurants in over 20 states and the District of Columbia, including one in Gaithersburg. The “Flavortown Kitchen” restaurants feature a variety of Americana cuisine including their signature Bourbon Brown Sugar BBQ Wings and the Mac N’ Cheese Burger according to the company website. The […]

Lidl, a popular discount grocery store chain, plans to open a new location in Wheaton on Feb. 24. Lidl has been rapidly expanding across the DMV with stores opening in Oxon Hill, Takoma Park and, as of last week, Springfield, Va. Since establishing its headquarters in 2015 in Arlington, Va., Lidl has opened nearly 45 stores […]

Altimmune, Inc. announced Wednesday that it was approved by the FDA to begin Phase 1 clinical trials for AdCOVID, its single-dose nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Gaithersburg, expects to begin volunteer enrollment in the trials in the coming week, according to a statement from the company. “We believe […]

Vigene Biosciences, a Maryland-based biotechnological company whose projects include a potential COVID-19 nasal spray vaccine, is looking to expand in Montgomery County with a new facility in Rockville. The new facility, which will be located at 14200 Shady Grove Road, will encompass 52,000 square feet of manufacturing space for its 125 current employees and hopes […]

Novavax, a vaccine development company headquartered in Gaithersburg, announced Thursday that it entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with an international vaccine organization to provide more than 1 billion total doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, according to a statement from the company. Novavax will work with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to provide 1.1 […]

The cofounder and chief branding officer of Denizens Brewing Co. in Silver Spring has been named Associate Administrator of Field Operations for the U.S. Small Business Administration by the Biden Administration. Julie Verratti announced she is leaving Denizens to serve as a presidential appointee. She previously worked for the the SBA before founding Denizens Brewing […]

Initial claims for unemployment filed by Montgomery County residents continued to fall. During the week that ended Feb. 13, about 100 fewer residents filed initial claims that week than during the week that ended on Feb. 6. Last week, 2,899 county residents filed initial claims. The prior week, 3,033 residents had filed initial claims, according […]

The Washington Spirit of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) announced a new investor group on Wednesday that includes Chelsea Clinton, Jenna Bush Hager and Dominique Dawes. “It is fitting that the Washington Spirit have an investor group commensurate with the dynamism and diversity of DC and its place as the most powerful city in […]