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Column: Getting your computer ready for school year 07/25/2016 11:13am • What should I be doing to get the computer ready for the upcoming school year? Much like the "spring cleaning" season, the back-to-school season is a good time to evaluate your computer to make sure it’s secured, optimized, or to decide if it’s time to upgrade or replace the unit. Even if Overnight at the Newseum: How the front pages make it to the front of the building 07/25/2016 01:56am • WASHINGTON — At 4:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, the streets of downtown D.C. are dark and deserted. But the second floor of 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW is buzzing. Mike Machado is hustling back and forth between his computer and a long drafting table that’s cluttered with stacks of broadsheets. 5 Big Stocks Reporting Earnings This Week: AAPL AMZN F FB GOOGL 07/24/2016 08:00pm • Welcome to the most anticipated week on Wall Street's earnings calendar. Following a couple of weeks of boring bank reports, narrative-loving investors finally get some juicy headlines to bite into as their favorite tech stocks step up to the earnings confessional. Apple, Facebook, Amazon.com ... an The Irrational Investor and Behavioral Finance 07/21/2016 08:00pm • Just as anyone knows who's come home to the sight of a dusty moose head purchased on eBay -- and the excited spouse bragging about snagging the Moose Noggin Deal of the Decade -- otherwise sane people have the craziest reasons for doing what they do with their money. And the finance-strange behavior 5 Tips to Interact Successfully With Professors, Students in Online Courses 07/21/2016 08:00pm • Did you ever send an email or submit a discussion forum post that you wish you could take back? Most people have. As more interactions shift from in-person to text-based communications, a subtle but meaningful interpersonal feedback loop is lost: We can no longer scan non-verbal cues to adjust conte Melania Trump not the 1st: Past speeches with familiar wording 07/20/2016 06:27pm • News that portions of Melania Trump's speech to the Republican National Convention Monday night were nearly identical to a speech given by Michelle Obama dominated the news cycle Tuesday morning, overshadowing her performance and her introduction to U.S. voters. But it was not the first time a p Amid convention drama, Maryland Republicans seek party unity 07/19/2016 12:58pm • Josh Magness and Julie Gallagher, correspondents CLEVELAND — As Donald Trump seems primed to accept the nomination as the GOP’s 2016 presidential candidate Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, party leaders are eying a problem: finding a way to coalesce the base around the controv World stocks mostly drop, Japan enjoys Pokemon-inspired rise 07/19/2016 08:19am • HONG KONG (AP) — Global stocks mostly fell Tuesday as investors monitored corporate earnings and further clues about the state of the world economy. Japan's index jumped on a weaker yen and a Pokemon-powered rally in Nintendo shares. KEEPING SCORE: France's CAC 40 was down 0.8 percent at 4,324 10 underrated romantic hotels for R&R 07/18/2016 05:00pm • Slip away to these postcard-perfect retreats, and recharge with your better half. It is officially summer: The weather is warm, and it is the perfect time to plan a romantic getaway. Maybe you want to drop off the radar in an exotic locale. Or perhaps you want to embark on an off-the-beaten-path Social network requires giving up first-born; nobody notices 07/18/2016 09:16am • WASHINGTON -- The last thing a smartphone user wants to do when first using a new social media app is read through pages and pages of legal language, even if the user is agreeing to outrageous conditions. A new study, called "The Biggest Lie on the Internet," shows almost nobody reads the length Could 'Pokemon Go' Break Election Laws? 07/17/2016 08:00pm • " Pokemon Go," the augmented reality app that recently became the biggest mobile game in U.S. history, has businesses and advertisers working feverishly to capitalize on its enormous popularity. And while election campaigns are already taking advantage of the game's mechanics to incentivize players By the numbers: A snapshot of Cleveland 07/15/2016 10:03pm • Here's a look at the demographics of the Republican National Convention host city of Cleveland, Ohio. Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later. What if there were a contested convention 07/15/2016 10:03pm • So if Donald Trump didn't receive enough delegates on the first ballot, what would happen then? Here's a quick look at the Republican convention ballot process. Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Ex 'Ghostbusters': Is the gender-bending remake worth seeing? 07/15/2016 03:22am • WASHINGTON — If you ever doubted the universe's sense of humor, consider the fact that "Ghostbusters" will try to knock "The Secret Life of Pets" off the box office throne. It's literally "dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" That was just one of a dozen memorable lines from Emmy winner conducts 'House of Cards' tribute at Kennedy Center 07/13/2016 01:24am • WASHINGTON — Symbolic shadows creep across D.C. government buildings. An upside-down American flag paints an international distress signal in front of the U.S. Capitol. And suddenly, the brooding baseline erupts into brass horns declaring the start of "House of Cards." "It was ac