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Your Black Friday and Cyber Monday Survival Guide 11/14/2017 07:00pm • Black Friday and Cyber Monday can be overwhelming and chaotic, forcing even the savviest shoppers to make rash decisions, purchase impulsively and overpay. Here are the steps you need to keep calm, stay on budget and get the best deals on all your holiday gifts. Get organized. Having a well-organiz Should I Invest in Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology? 11/12/2017 07:00pm • Bitcoin, the controversial digital currency, has been hot this year, recently more than $7,000 this month from around $1,000 in January. Is it the next great thing, or will bitcoin run its course? And what about blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin? Companies are scrambling to find new uses for Movie Review: 'Last Flag Flying' should not work at all — yet somehow it does 11/10/2017 02:10am • WASHINGTON — Richard Linklater is without a doubt one of our best living filmmakers after "Slacker," "Dazed and Confused," "School of Rock," "Boyhood" and the "Before Sunrise" trilogy. But while "Last Flag Flying" is nowhere near his best work, it might just be his most impressive feat, sim When Gay Men Get Prostate Cancer 11/08/2017 07:00pm • First, Allen Rose had to face reality: His doctor had just diagnosed him with prostate cancer at age 45. "I was stunned," recalls Rose, now a 60-year-old paralegal living in Rockville, Maryland. "It was really the first experience of my life where I had to take in my own mortality." Next, Rose had Combating Suicide in Rural America 11/08/2017 07:00pm • Suicide rates have been climbing across the U.S., and the problem is most pronounced in rural America. Not only has research found that suicide rates are higher in these less populated areas -- even as urban areas are also seeing an uptick in suicide -- but rural suicide rates are rising faster as Preparing for the Wealth Transfer Tsunami 11/08/2017 07:00pm • More than 10,000 baby boomers enter their retirement years every day. Beyond this incredible number is a significant looming tsunami -- one of the largest intergenerational wealth transfers ever in history, estimated to be as much as $30 trillion. While turning 65 doesn't mean that boomers are nece 3 Ways Real Estate Can Boost Your Retirement Income 11/08/2017 07:00pm • There's big appeal in the idea of investing in real estate right now. And it's not just because of all the attention these days on President Donald Trump, who made his fortune in the industry. Many real estate-related investments have done quite well in the last decade or so. The median sales price Suspect charged with kidnapping, killing Va. woman found dead in NC 11/08/2017 06:24pm • WASHINGTON — A retired 21-year Navy veteran is charged in the abduction and death of 19-year-old Ashanti Billie, who disappeared from a military base in Hampton Roads in September and was found dead in North Carolina. The U.S. attorney's office in Norfolk, Virginia, Wednesday afternoon announce Prince George's Co. man arrested for child pornography 11/08/2017 04:45pm • WASHINGTON — A Prince George's County man is facing charges after police say he possessed and distributed child pornography. On Wednesday morning, Maryland State Police arrested 23-year-old Austin Whyte at his Accokeek home. He is charged with three counts of distribution of child pornography a 5 Potential Roadblocks to Stock Market Growth 11/07/2017 07:00pm • No doubt about it -- the U.S. stock market is still firing on all cylinders, as the number of naysayers who say a market slide is imminent grows. Consider these attention-getters: -- The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 15.8 percent on a year-to-date basis.-- The Dow Jones industrial average is Tencent Takes Big Stake in Snap Inc Stock 11/07/2017 07:00pm • A Chinese holding company bought a 10 percent stake in Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) stock, the companies announced today, turning over a 20 percent loss in the U.S. company's share price after Snap reported disappointing earnings on Tuesday. Tencent Holdings, one of the largest internet companies in the wor Job Searching When You Are on the Go 11/06/2017 07:00pm • Do you remember the old stereotypical picture of a job seeker sitting around the kitchen table on a Sunday morning circling jobs of interest in the local newspaper's classified ads section? That image is replaced today by that of a millennial glancing down at a smartphone looking for open positions Buddhist Nationalism Reaches Beyond Myanmar 11/06/2017 07:00pm • As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee across the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh, stories of terror and suffering continue to mount: tales of torched villages and gang rape, of soldiers stabbing babies and cutting off heads. U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein has called the violenc A Parent's Guide to Social Media 11/05/2017 07:00pm • Not so long ago, "screen time" referred to the hours kids spent parked in front of the tube or playing video games. Today, they're also using their tablets and smartphones to swap messages with friends, share music videos and rack up "likes" by posting photos. These forms of social media, which all Job Interview Mistakes to Avoid 11/02/2017 08:00pm • In the hiring process, knowing what not to do in an interview is just as important as having a polished resume and strong references. Like most interpersonal interactions, job interviews can be quite subjective. But experts have identified common interview mistakes that you should dodge to improve y