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7 Ways to Avoid Holiday Financial Stress 11/17/2016 07:00pm • Black Friday sales are springing up online and in your local stores. But you still have time to pull together a financial plan for the holidays that will keep your bank account in the black. Carve out some time in the next few days to do the following, and you should be in good financial shape for Smokey Robinson receives Gershwin Prize for Popular Song 11/17/2016 01:35am • WASHINGTON — His soft, silky-smooth voice and swift pen made Motown history, sparking a 50-year career in which he composed more than 4,000 songs. Many were jams he voiced for his dynamite doo-wop group The Miracles: "Shop Around," "Tears of a Clown," "Tracks of My Tears," "I Second That 10 MBAs With the Highest Return for Grads Earning $100,000+ 11/16/2016 07:00pm • Evaluate an MBA's Return on Investment Many prospective business students look at an MBA as an investment, weighing the cost of attending a program with projected earnings. Salary-to-debt ratio is one way to evaluate that return -- that number is calculated by dividing the average salary of recent g 7 Financial Accounts to Be Thankful For 11/16/2016 07:00pm • Before the holiday hustle and bustle goes into high gear, families across the country will sit down together for a Thanksgiving meal and reflect on what makes them grateful. Family, friends and good health may be the first things that come to mind when counting your blessings, but there are other th 5 Possible Student Loan, Higher Ed Impacts of a Trump Presidency 11/15/2016 07:00pm • What will a Donald Trump presidency mean for student loan consumers? He rarely mentioned higher education or the nation's $1.3 trillion in student debt on the campaign trail, so the future is hazy. With so much still unknown and to be worked out during the transition over the next few months, it's t 6 Sneaky Travel Costs That Can Add Up Quickly 11/15/2016 07:00pm • As many as 72 percent of Americans are planning to travel at least once between Thanksgiving and New Year's day, according to Orbitz's 2016 holiday survey. If you're among them, you're probably already deep in planning -- choosing destinations, booking hotel rooms and flights and, most of important 10 ETFs That Pay Sky-High Dividends 11/15/2016 07:00pm • ETFs that pay you to own them.There's yield, and then there's yield. Let's talk about the latter. Exchange-traded funds can give you access to just about any theme you want, and that includes dividends. However, like the stock world, if you want to dredge up significantly more income than your avera Flying out of Dulles could get cheaper next year 11/15/2016 02:30pm • WASHINGTON — The cost to fly out of Dulles International Airport could drop next year, and as promised, Dulles Toll Road rates would remain flat under the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority’s proposed budget. The annual budget proposal that will be presented Wednesday to the MWAA boa Financial Conversations You Should Have During the Holidays 11/14/2016 07:00pm • This may come as a shock to you: The holiday season is a great time for a family money talk. Sure, you may want to avoid politics, religion and sex chats at your Thanksgiving or Christmas meal -- but money should be on the table as a potential topic of conversation. "I think it's actually a very DOJ: Va. driver's license suspension law unconstitutional 11/14/2016 10:45am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is siding with a lawsuit challenging Virginia's practice of suspending the driver's licenses of people who can't pay court costs and fines. Media outlets report a team of DOJ civil rights lawyers filed a brief last week supporting the class-ac Q&A: Jessica Chastain's ruthless 'Miss Sloane' Goes to Washington 11/14/2016 01:11am • WASHINGTON — She's arguably the best actress working today, elevating every film she touches, from major popcorn blockbusters to indie art-house sensations. In the last five years alone, she was the lonely social outcast in "The Help" (2011), played an eternal mother in "The Tree of Li How Seniors Can Use Life Insurance 11/13/2016 07:00pm • Anyone with dependents needs life insurance, we're told. Policies on parents can provide food, shelter and education until children can provide for themselves. Husbands and wives can get policies to make a survivor's later years more secure and comfortable. But what about people in their 50s, 60s o Is Investing in a College Degree Worth It? 11/13/2016 07:00pm • With student debt reaching a record $1.3 million, colleges are reporting the pain as students back away from taking on the expense of a college degree. According to a recent Gallup poll, 87 percent of college admissions directors of private colleges and 51 percent at public colleges say they're losi Don't Make These Credit Card Rewards Mistakes While Holiday Shopping 11/13/2016 07:00pm • If you're not using a rewards credit card for your holiday shopping, you're probably leaving money on the table. It's as simple as that. Whether you want to use rewards cards to help keep costs down or to rack up points or miles during the holiday season, it's important that you factor these cards i 8 Ways to Profit From Donald Trump's Infrastructure Plans 11/13/2016 07:00pm • How to bet on the Trump White House.Donald Trump's Election Day victory has put several industries in the spotlight, but infrastructure looks to be one of Trump's major areas of focus. Trump has pledged $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over the next 10 years, and infrastructure even merited