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3 Reasons Why Parents Need to Talk to Teens About Safe Driving 06/28/2015 08:00pm • Teens have more time for adventures when high school is out for the summer, but these escapades can often turn deadly when they're driving. Ohio dad Brock Dietrich knows this all too well. His 17-year-old daughter, Sydnee Williams, died in a 2013 car crash after using her phone behind the wheel. " 5 Workplace Trends That Are Making Your Job Harder 06/28/2015 08:00pm • Some recent workplace trends are good ones, such as the increase in telecommuting, a growing call for paid sick leave and the gradually closing pay gap between men and women. But not everything is moving in a worker-friendly direction. With many other work trends, employees are getting the short end Health advocates remake iconic Coke ad (Video) 06/24/2015 09:17am • WASHINGTON ��� The iconic Coca-Cola ���Hilltop��� ad, featuring the song in which young people sang about teaching the world to sing and buying it a Coke, debuted in 1971 and was revived in the ���Mad Men��� finale. But now a group is putting a new spin on the familiar tune to warn people about the Starting Your Baby on Solids 06/23/2015 07:00am • You're a brand-new mom (or a mom again) and have just mastered breast-feeding or formula feeding (or are still wondering when the feeding gets easier), but now you're anticipating the next nourishment phase: solid food introduction. With all the nuances of being a new mom, including returning to wor Down the drain: Girl walking and texting gets stuck 06/22/2015 12:47pm • WASHINGTON -- A Chinese teenager got a valuable -- and embarrassing -- lesson about distracted walking when her entire leg got lodged in a drain while texting. The girl's leg slipped through the metal grill of the drain, up to her thigh recently in China. Her foot was lodged, and she was unabl How Investors Can Win By Finishing in the Middle 06/21/2015 08:00pm • Most people would prefer to win, rather than finish in the middle of the pack. But when it comes to investing, winning takes on a different meaning. Many financial advisors suggest that people emulate the slow-and-steady tortoise, rather than the hare, who boasts about his speed. In that context, 3 Summer Fixes for Bad High School Grades 06/21/2015 08:00pm • A bad end-of-year report card can put a damper on the start of summer for teens and their parents. "I definitely think it can be frustrating for parents and they may not know what direction to go in and try to help their student," says Dominique Foster, guidance director at Prince Edward County Hig 3 Things to Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer 06/21/2015 08:00pm • Selecting an ideal employer can be a tricky endeavor. It is easy to judge a company by the friendly interviewers, modern furniture and above-average perks. However, employment satisfaction requires a few more factors that may be challenging to assess. Here are some things to consider before saying " Students lose Chromebooks due to Montgomery County budget cuts 06/18/2015 04:01pm • WASHINGTON -- The decision by the Montgomery County school board to save $3 million by putting off the purchase of more Google Chromebooks means students in grades two, four, seven and some high school classes won't be getting the high tech tools when school starts in August. But students in grad Feds issue scathing Metro safety report 06/17/2015 06:34pm • WASHINGTON ��� Overworked, undertrained and distracted rail controllers are just part of the major safety issues that Metro has failed to address, according to a Federal Transit Administration report released Wednesday. The FTA inspection, initiated following the January smoke incident near the L 5 Ways to Defeat the Summer Work Slump 06/16/2015 08:00pm • So you're not vacationing in Maui. Or even Milwaukee. You're sitting in an office, feeling like a kid in summer school, blinking at the florescent lights when you'd rather be squinting at the sunshine. That's life as a grown-up. Fortunately, there are several ways to shake off that lethargic feeling Amtrak tests safety technology in D.C. area 06/16/2015 06:33am • WASHINGTON ��� After the deadly derailment in Philadelphia last month, Amtrak is reportedly taking steps to make its passengers safer. Amtrak has been testing positive train control, a technology that can slow or stop a train automatically, on tracks from D.C. through Maryland and into Delaware, Trea Turner finally joins Nationals organization 06/16/2015 02:46am • WASHINGTON ��� On Friday night in Woodbridge, Virginia, the Potomac Nationals gave away Steven Souza, Jr. bobbleheads, commemorating the catch the outfielder made that saved Jordan Zimmermann���s no-hitter on the final day of the 2014 regular season. The timing may have felt odd, as Souza has bee How to Retire Overseas in 7 Steps 06/15/2015 08:00pm • Millions of Americans have retired to other countries in recent years, and more are choosing to retire overseas all the time. Moving overseas can be a dramatic change, but frequently leads to a new life that is more exciting and cheaper. Here's how to break the adventure down into steps. Step 1: De Diets of Straw 06/07/2015 08:00pm • We have been diverting what we know about nutrition and health into lamentable nonsense for decades already. But now, our dialogue about nutrition seems to have devolved further into a sequence of assaults on straw man arguments, aided and abetted by the shoot-aim-ready inclination that prevails in