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A home-equity loan may take weeks (but no need to tidy up the house) 08/11/2025 09:43am • U.S. homeowners are sitting on a record $34.5 trillion in home equity, and more are tapping that mountain of accessible assets. Home equity available to homeowners has risen by $600 million since the first quarter of 2024, according to LendingTree. Home equity loan originations, including closed These DC students thought they were interviewing for scholarships. Then, they all walked out with money 08/07/2025 07:12pm • Wearing dresses and suits, over 30 students raised in D.C. gathered in a large room at the Department of Parks and Recreation’s headquarters on Thursday afternoon. The students submitted a video and recommendation letters with the hope of earning a college scholarship from the city agency. Thur Tysons-based Strategy buys another $2.5B in bitcoin 08/05/2025 01:40pm • Tysons-based Strategy, which changed its corporate name from MicroStrategy earlier this year to reflect its new focus on bitcoin investment, purchased another $2.46 billion worth of the cryptocurrency over the course of the last week, according to Bloomberg. This is Strategy's third-largest bitco Weeks after his release from prison, Franklin hired back to Prince George’s Co. Council job 07/30/2025 09:30am • At-large Prince George’s County Councilmember Calvin Hawkins II believes in second chances. He’s led a career marked by overcoming past mistakes, and now he hopes to play a role in a “comeback story” for an old colleague: former At-Large Councilmember Mel Franklin, whom he hired as his ne DC mortgage group says homeowners are tapping equity for a new reason 07/29/2025 12:00pm • Homeowners have an estimated $25 trillion in home equity built up, and more are tapping that equity. But the reasons for taking on those equity loans are shifting. The D.C.-based Mortgage Bankers Association reports applications for home equity loans and open-ended home equity lines of credit — Gov. Moore’s office pushes back against Md. lawmakers as reparations feud continues 07/23/2025 07:30am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) and his staff met regularly with lawmakers to discuss a bill creating a reparations study commission, and expressed concerns about the bill that the governor subsequently vetoed, his office insisted Monday. And lawmakers’ claims that the administration was pursuing its own re What Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could mean for families' budgets 07/02/2025 08:00pm • The tax bill passed by the House of Representatives on May 22 includes some big changes for families. It increases the child tax credit, introduces a new tax-deferred account with government contributions for new babies, expands eligible expenses for health savings accounts and proposes a tax bre Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismisses $95M overdraft case vs. Navy Federal Credit Union 07/01/2025 04:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Navy Federal Credit Union will no longer have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees on their accounts, after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved to dismiss the case. In a statement, Navy Federal defended its use of ov Pell Grant changes could raise college cost for Virginia students 06/30/2025 06:21pm • Students in Virginia who rely on Pell Grants to help pay for college may soon face higher costs under a sweeping set of federal education reforms being considered by the U.S. Senate. The Pell Grant program is the primary source of federal financial aid for low-income students, supporting degree A postnuptial can save a marriage after infidelity 06/30/2025 05:31am • Prenuptial agreements are increasingly common. A recent Harris Poll found 15% of Americans who are married or engaged report having signed one. Postnuptial agreements are not as common. But now, this once-considered rare legal agreement signed by couples after tying the knot is finding its way into African American Civil War Museum honors the Black soldiers who ended the Civil War on Juneteenth 06/19/2025 07:06pm • The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago to tell the last holdouts of the Confederacy that the Civil War, and slavery, were officially over. Juneteenth ca Dating during divorce proceedings? Maryland lawyer says wait, don’t dissipate 06/09/2025 01:11pm • If you’re separated and in the process of getting a divorce, dating someone new can complicate things legally. Especially if the divorce is not amicable. Adultery is no longer considered fault-based grounds for divorce in Maryland or D.C. In some cases, it still is in Virginia. If the couple ha Virginia’s federal lawmakers want to make childbirth free 06/05/2025 08:02am • Childbirth can cost thousands of dollars, with certain conditions also posing extra costs for parents-to-be who have private health insurance. New legislation proposed by Virginia’s Capitol Hill lawmakers and their colleagues could prevent cost-sharing for prenatal, childbirth, neonatal, perina Fairfax Co. families got $750 per month. They say it gave them 'new freedoms' 06/04/2025 09:02pm • A pilot program offering select families extra money every month has concluded, and officials said Tuesday it helped them reach goals and experiences that were previously unimaginable. The Economic Mobility Pilot program launched in October 2023, and gave families who need financial help, but are Post-COVID 'revenge spending' appears to be on the way out 06/03/2025 09:27pm • After COVID restrictions lifted, many of us made up for lost time by shopping, leading to a trend known as “revenge spending.” Now, with uncertainty surrounding the economy, it appears many are turning in the opposite direction and putting a focus on saving. According to a report by the B