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How to Protect Your Credit in the Wake of the Equifax Breach 09/14/2017 08:00pm • For anyone who takes protecting their credit score and identity seriously, the news was probably like getting a punch in the gut. As you've no doubt heard, Equifax, one of the nation's largest credit bureaus, was hacked -- it is believed that 143 million American consumers' personal information was Md. teacher charged with child solicitation in Fairfax Co. 09/14/2017 12:49pm • WASHINGTON — A Carroll County teacher was arrested Wednesday on Virginia child solicitation charges after he tried to solicit a 14-year-old boy who was really a Fairfax County detective. Kenneth B. Fischer, 39, of Westminster, is a teacher at Westminster West Middle School and has previously wo 5 Modern Stressors and How to Handle Them 09/13/2017 08:00pm • Ah, the good old days: When all you had to worry about was, well, if you'd eat again, survive the night and find a suitable mate with whom to pass on your genes. Today, while most of our basic needs -- food, water, warmth and rest -- are met, we're hardly living free and easy. "In our society today 4 Ways to Turn Your Cruise Into a Cultural Experience 09/13/2017 08:00pm • Once a popular vacation option for partying beachgoers and families seeking a bargain-friendly getaway, cruising has long garnered a reputation for bland buffets and generic itineraries. And while today's ships boast unique onboard entertainment offerings, enrichment opportunities and whiz-bang fea 'DaddyOFive' parents found guilty of neglect, avoid jail 09/11/2017 01:05pm • FREDERICK, Md. — The Maryland couple, whose "DaddyOFive" YouTube videos featured them pranking their children, were found guilty of child neglect on Monday and sentenced to five years supervised probation. Mike and Heather Martin, of Ijamsville, each entered Alford pleas to misdemeanor counts Local man stranded in Caribbean after Irma's wrath 09/10/2017 05:14pm • WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be a fun guys-only trip to the Caribbean — then, Hurricane Irma showed up. Now, a D.C.-area resident is struggling to get back home. Taylor, who declined to give her last name, said she's been frustrated trying to get her husband back home following Hurrica Metro issues refund over rejected ads for controversial writer's book 09/08/2017 04:17am • WASHINGTON — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is getting his money back for ads that Metro pulled down this summer after rider complaints, even as he tries to get them put back up across the system. In new court filings opposing Yiannopoulos’s effort to get the book ads put back up, M 5 Ways to Embrace Technology to Manage Your Retirement Money 09/07/2017 08:00pm • Not long ago, ATMs and home computers were all the rage in the personal finance world. Today, all the comforts of the past remain, but innovative technology is changing the way people transact across the globe. The younger generation is quick to adopt new technologies because they flock to whatever 4 Steps to Get Organized for Online Courses 09/07/2017 08:00pm • Even as thousands of students head back to college campuses nationwide, enrollment in online courses continues to grow. For students starting online courses, it's important to set yourself up for success -- particularly if you work full or part time and juggle other family and personal responsibilit 'We are pretty much on our own': In the Virgin Islands, Irma rolls out while Jose nears 09/07/2017 05:29pm • WASHINGTON — Residents of the Virgin Islands battered by Hurricane Irma began to assess damage on Thursday while also looking ahead to the next possible threat — Hurricane Jose. "We're praying Jose goes north of us," said John Klein from the U.S. island of St. Thomas. He also owns White Bay Robo Rage: Getting your 'good number' off robocall lists 09/07/2017 04:06am • WASHINGTON — Federal agencies are working furiously with mobile carriers and on new technology to stop robocalls. But there are steps consumers can take to reduce the number of robocalls they receive, starting with a change in their call behavior. "Just the mere fact you answer will put y The Hunt: How do extremist groups attract everyday people to commit acts of terrorism? 09/06/2017 09:18pm • WASHINGTON — How do terrorist sympathizers get radicalized in the first place? In this week's edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Nikita Malik, a senior research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, says the internet and real-life scenarios provi Cyberterrorists targeting first responders 09/06/2017 04:53am • WASHINGTON — A U.S. intelligence community collaborative warned first responders in late July about escalating efforts to target them and their missions by cyberterrorists. The Joint Counterterrorism Assessment Team (JCAT), an alliance between the FBI, DHS and the National Counterterrorism Cent Is GTA Hijacking GDP? How Gaming and Opioid Addictions Rob Our Economy 09/05/2017 08:00pm • The rising popularity of video games has paralleled a surge in video game stocks over recent years. Stock in major video game developers Take-Two Interactive Software (Nasdaq: TTWO), Electronic Arts ( EA), and Activision Blizzard ( ATVI) are up 840 percent, 798 percent and 453 percent respectively i 10 ETFs to Buy for Oodles of Growth 09/05/2017 08:00pm • Forget value, go for growth here.Sometimes it pays to throw value out the window, and throw a few growth stocks into your portfolio. Investors in the likes of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Netflix (NFLX) will be happy to tell you that triple-digit price-earnings ratios don't keep stocks from heading