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Toll collections soar after Dulles Toll Road increase 04/23/2019 04:20am • More drivers are sticking with the Dulles Toll Road this year than the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority expected following a toll increase meant to cover Silver Line construction costs. Drivers paid 31.9% more in tolls, over the first three months of this year compared to the same p My Take: Student load debt — take it or leave it? 04/22/2019 10:28pm • Student loan debt, I wonder if we should keep it around? Mortgage before marriage for many young buyers 04/22/2019 08:59am • Nearly 25% of millennial homebuyers want to buy a home before they get married. LendingTree, which conducted the survey, says times have changed. "Many people used to get married, and then buy a home or have a baby, and then buy a home. Often times buying a home was triggered by these life eve DC must study impact of ride-share services on drivers, environment, researchers say 04/19/2019 04:00am • D.C. should establish a commission for a one-year study on the many possible effects on the city of on-demand, ride-hailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, Georgetown University researchers warn. "This study offers more questions than answers," said Katie Wells, a postdoctoral fellow with George Wake up, people: You're fooling yourself about sleep, study says 04/16/2019 03:54am • Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream.Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health's School of Medicine, who conducted a study published Tuesday i Exasperated Ecuador ends asylum for world's worst houseguest 04/12/2019 02:41am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Did Western media and government hypocrisy bring about Julian Assange's arrest, or was it his bad manners? The dramatic end to Julian Assange's asylum has sparked curiosity about his 7-year stay inside Ecuador's embassy in London that was marked by When strep triggers attack on brain, kids see ‘terrifying’ symptoms 04/10/2019 12:17am • About two years ago, Laura Murdock noticed a sudden change in her son Lucas’ behavior. The 8-year-old was “always happy,” but then stopped wanting to play baseball — a sport he loved — and would “get upset over the littlest things.” Almost overnight he became anxious, obsessive- Big changes for Virginians possible in ‘veto session’ still shadowed by scandal 04/03/2019 04:30am • Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond on Wednesday for a series of key votes on Gov. Ralph Northam’s vetoes and amendments to bills, ranging from road safety and interstate upgrades, to the budget and elections. At the one-day reconvened session, often called a “veto session," the General Ass Some of the greatest April Fools' pranks of all time 04/01/2019 02:38am • April Fools' Day ain't what it used to be. Companies will come up with gags. Everybody will have a good laugh, but nobody will be fooled. Oh, for the days when April Fools' Day hoaxes and pranks could cause lines outside liquor stores or prompt people to smell their T Smartest ways to redeem credit card cash back 03/28/2019 08:00pm • Cash back credit cards are some of the most popular rewards credit cards available today. These rewards credit cards are relatively easy to understand. Redeeming the cash back you earn with them is fairly simple, too. How you use the cash back you accumulate can make a big difference. Rather than Virginia may raise truck fees, gas taxes for I-81 fixes and Northern Virginia projects 03/27/2019 12:53pm • Funding for Interstate 81 upgrades could also restore money Northern Virginia lost as part of last year's Metro funding agreement, depending on a General Assembly vote next week. Late Tuesday, Gov. Ralph Northam proposed increased truck registration fees across Virginia, a higher diesel tax to mo 9 red flags you're making a bad financial decision 03/25/2019 09:00am • Watch out for these telltale signs. If you've made poor spending decisions in the past or developed lackluster money-management habits over time, you've probably tried to figure out where things went south. The reality is there are often warnings indicating that you were about to stumble into som US budget deficit hit $234 billion in February, a new monthly record 03/22/2019 04:51pm • The US logged its biggest monthly fiscal gap ever last month. The budget widened to $234 billion in February, the Treasury Department announced on Friday, compared with a monthly shortfall of $215.2 billion a year earlier. Last month's budget gap helped push the US go Want a perfect credit score? Get more credit cards (and where DC ranks) 03/18/2019 07:55am • The Washington metro area ranks in the top 10 for cities with the highest percentage of consumers with perfect credit scores, at No. 7 — but even so, only 1.94 percent of Washington area consumers have a perfect score of 850, according to Experian. And while that squeaky-clean score of 850 is c Va. Rep. Wexton addresses white nationalism, student debt during 1st town hall 03/17/2019 05:46pm • The auditorium at Goshen Post Elementary School in Aldie, Virginia, was packed Sunday afternoon for Rep. Jennifer Wexton's, D-Va. 10, first town hall, where she discussed her progress since taking office before giving residents a chance to ask her about the issues most important to them. Some of