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What makes a great director? DGA Award breakdown on road to Oscars 01/09/2019 12:03am • WASHINGTON -- The Directors Guild of America just announced its DGA Award nominees. It's a significant Oscar indicator, as the DGA Award winner has gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Director in all but seven years since the guild's inception some 70 years ago. So what exactly makes 4 Body Image Lessons You Need to Learn Before You Turn 30 01/08/2019 07:00pm • In my recent work interviewing dozens of women for an upcoming book, I've come to realize we all have something in common: We all struggle to some degree with body image. We don't necessarily feel bad about ourselves, but we don't feel as good as we'd like to either. Most of us also have some regret New TV drama 'Project Blue Book' based on real-life X-Files 01/08/2019 04:21am • BALTIMORE — If you miss Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, check out a new series premiering Tuesday night on the History channel. "Project Blue Book" stars Aidan Gillen, best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in HBO's "Game of Thrones," and is executive produced by Robert Zem The Best Free Interior Design Apps 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Use tech to get creative with your next interior design project.Sprucing up your home, or even building a whole new addition, is best done with some planning. Fortunately, plenty of apps are available for Android and Apple smartphone or tablet users to help with the design, planning, professional co Data Doctors: Should you use a VPN on your phone? 01/03/2019 09:14am • Q: Should I be using a VPN service on my smartphone? A: There are a number of reasons for using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), especially for mobile devices such as laptops, smartphones and tablets. Mobile devices are often connecting to insecure public Wi-Fi networks, which can expose them to What Is a Credit Card Skimmer? And How You Can Avoid Them 12/13/2018 07:00pm • The threat of credit and debit card skimmers has grown in both number and sophistication in recent years. Today, you can't fill up your gas tank or withdraw cash from an ATM without the risk of becoming the next victim of a skimmer. Statistics about the prevalence of skimmers -- electronic devices e How Emotional Labor May Affect You at Work 12/13/2018 07:00pm • Do you work in a field where you're expected to give customers service with a smile, no matter how lousy you may feel inside or how irritating they are? Or, do you work in an environment where you're supposed to squelch your own feelings and kowtow to the wishes of clients, patients or difficult sup DC sues 6 Md. parents accused of faking residency to send kids to District schools 12/12/2018 02:05pm • WASHINGTON — The D.C. attorney general's office is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Maryland parents who it claims faked District residency to send their children to prestigious D.C. schools without paying tuition. Attorney General Racine has filed a total of four lawsuits seeking Man who admitted faking records in faulty Silver Line concrete case sentenced to prison 12/07/2018 02:50pm • WASHINGTON — A man who admitted faking records to hide faulty Silver Line concrete panels was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison along with a significant financial penalty. Andrew Nolan appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, where a judge also sentenced him to three year More fired track inspectors blamed for ‘falsified' reports get jobs back at Metro 12/05/2018 03:16pm • WASHINGTON — Track workers blamed for what Metro had called faked inspection reports are getting their jobs back, after an arbitrator found the reports were done as Metro had instructed. A court filing this week suggested Metro and five track workers who had filed a federal lawsuit over their f Today in History: Dec. 1 12/01/2018 12:15am • Today is Saturday, Dec. 1, the 335th day of 2018. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus; the incident sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks. Payless pranks VIPs, sells discount shoes at luxury prices (VIDEO) 11/30/2018 08:27am • (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jss 9 Holiday Shopping Scams to Watch Out for This Season 11/28/2018 07:00pm • We're in the thick of the holiday shopping season, but it isn't only retailers who want your money. Scammers and hackers are looking for ways to crack into your accounts and make off with your cash or your identity. The good news for consumers: Holiday shopping scams often follow a predictable scri How to Earn Money Online 11/26/2018 07:00pm • The jobs available for people looking to make money online run the gamut. On the internet, you can seek everything from full-time employment as a remote staff member to a work-whenever-you-want side hustle as a mystery shopper, blogger or jewelry-maker. The parameters for how and when you make money 'They've hacked us:' Journalist says Facebook, tech giants fuel fake news health crisis 11/24/2018 01:18pm • WASHINGTON — Facebook has come under fire this week following a New York Times' investigation into what the company knew about Russian meddling, data sharing and fake news, and how its leaders went on the attack after each scandal. And just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Facebook acknowledged it