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10 Best Personal Finance Courses 07/08/2020 12:00am • If you want to learn how to make smart financial decisions, save more and eliminate debt, you're in luck. Today, there are plenty of online personal finance classes offering money-management lessons. Still, "people need to keep in mind that online personal finance courses should be seen as an educa 10 Robinhood Stocks Investors Are Buying in July 07/08/2020 12:00am • Robinhood stocks have been on fire in 2020.The S&P 500 just completed its best quarter since 1998, and some of the Robinhood traders' most popular stocks were among the best performers of the quarter. Robinhood traders are generally considered to be younger and more tech savvy than the typical r China Stocks Surge; Tesla Keeps Soaring 07/06/2020 12:00am • U.S. indices advanced again on Monday, continuing a months-long rally as they emerged from a long holiday weekend. Rip-roaring Chinese markets helped encourage the Wall Street gains. The Shanghai Composite surged an incredible 5.7% on Monday as China's state-run media began urging investors to get 7 Best Penny Stocks to Buy 07/06/2020 12:00am • Some penny stocks are worth the risk.The prospect of stumbling upon a dirt-cheap penny stock that will ultimately make shareholders rich is an exciting idea. In reality, these types of rags-to-riches stories are few and far between. Unfortunately, most penny stocks that trade for less than $1 per sh Maryland commits $30 million to prevent evictions during pandemic 06/28/2020 07:59am • Maryland will commit $30 million in new funding to help prevent tenants affected by the coronavirus pandemic from facing eviction. While eviction moratoriums provided time for federal stimulus funds and state unemployment benefits to take effect, many people are still struggling to pay their rent Manassas, Va. council approves $1.6M in CARES act spending 06/27/2020 09:13am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Manassas City Council signed off on over $1.6 million in federal CARES Act funding for schools, airport services and economic develop Where the pandemic is exacerbated by a housing crisis — and vice versa 06/25/2020 08:41am • In front of CASA's Langley Park headquarters, children from the neighborhood express their views on housing issues. (Courtesy CASA) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Th Dispute over Purple Line rages, and Md. lawmakers want info on highway project bidders 06/23/2020 11:22am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Amid a contract dispute involving the Purple Line that a leading lawmaker described as “very serious,” key members of the General Assemb As courts reopen amid COVID-19, Maryland AG forms task force to stave evictions 06/11/2020 02:40pm • As Maryland's courts reopen, Attorney General Brian Frosh has formed a COVID-19 Access to Justice Task Force to deal with preexisting racial inequities within the health care and justice systems, which are poised to be exacerbated by the ongoing public health crisis. In an online news conference, Wicomico Co. couple struggles to stay afloat with underwater mortgage 05/23/2020 05:05am • John Peters (gray shirt) and Sheryl Peters (seated), share their house with friends but are worried they will not be able to refinance their mortgage, which is more than their house is worth. (Paige Leckie/Capital News Service) Each week, John Peters does yard work for neighbors, shuttles friend Coronavirus update: Bowser details budget cuts amid pandemic; council to vote on emergency bill 05/18/2020 09:39pm • The Lincoln Memorial is visible as a man works at the banks of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Bowser's budget cuts; coronavirus response D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released her proposed fiscal year 2021 budget during a news conference Monday. The mayor and Cit Legg Mason shareholders approve $4.5 billion sale 05/18/2020 08:59am • Legg Mason Inc. shareholders voted Friday to approve the money manager's $4.5 billion sale to Franklin Resources Inc., moving the deal closer to completion by September. More than 99% of Legg Mason's shareholders voted in favor of the transaction during a virtual meeting hosted by the Baltimore-b 'We need to be careful': Montgomery Co. keeping coronavirus restrictions in place 05/14/2020 02:10pm • Medical personnel from Montgomery County, Md., check patients arriving for a COVID-19 drive-in testing in Silver Spring, Md., Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) More from: Prince George’s County | Calvert County | Anne Arundel County | Charles County Montgomer Despite furor, Eastern Shore town approves zoning for possible immigrant detention facility 05/14/2020 07:30am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. When residents of the Town of Sudlersville joined a virtual commissioner’s meeting at 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday, they could see Town Comm Coronavirus has created a rift between the US and China that may take a generation to heal 05/08/2020 11:07pm • The novel coronavirus has destroyed lives and livelihoods in both the United States and China. But instead of bonding the two nations together to fight the pandemic, it has sent their already strained relations on a rapid downward spiral -- and fanned the flames of a potentially dangerous strain of