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What you should and shouldn't buy on Amazon.com 07/30/2014 06:21pm • WASHINGTON -- When it comes to online shopping, Amazon is king. But for some items, shopping at the e-commerce site can cost you money. The best items to buy on Amazon.com are what one might expect: digital downloads such as e-books, items under $10 and bulk items such as diapers. But when it Kitchen facelift or kitchen remodel? What to keep in mind 07/30/2014 11:00am • This is a sponsored column by Cindy Beyer, a Reston-based interior designer and Reston Now Best Reston Business Award winner. Find her online at www.CindyLBeyer.com. I have heard many people say “I HATE my kitchen!” How many of you have looked at your kitchen and said the same t UPS 2Q profit drops, lowers outlook on spending 07/29/2014 12:24pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- UPS is willing to sacrifice some short-term profits to avoid a repeat of its failure last Christmas to deliver all packages on time.The big Atlanta-based shipping company said it will spend $175 million on improvements that include beefed-up operations on the day after Thanksgiving, Wall Street making gains ... 6th-straight month of slow home price gains ... Consumer confidence jumps 07/29/2014 11:50am • NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market is making gains in early trading today. At 10:35 a.m. Eastern Time, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 60 points to 17,042. The S&P 500 climbed four points to 1,983. And the Nasdaq gained 21 points to 4,466.WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. home prices rose in May from a y McDonald's Japan to strengthen checks on chicken 07/29/2014 07:10am • YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) -- McDonald's in Japan is increasing its checks on chicken from vendors in China and Thailand after allegations a Chinese supplier sold expired chicken. It says the scare will hurt its earnings.The U.S. fast-food chain's Japan unit on Tuesday withdrew this Zillow buying Trulia to build real estate titan 07/29/2014 03:54am • MAE ANDERSON AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Zillow and Trulia, two companies that changed the way people shop for homes, are combining.Real estate website operator Zillow Inc. is buying its rival in a $3.5 billion deal that will make the biggest player in the online real estate information ma Fashion industry, retailers and the gender binary 07/29/2014 02:44am • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- As a transgender woman who began her transition about a year ago, Kylie Jack is still figuring out her fashion style, but she wanted one thing right away: well-fitting bras.Friends recommended Petticoat Fair in Austin, Texas, where she lives. The linge SC mom's arrest sparks child care debate 07/28/2014 04:42pm • JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (AP) -- Plenty of working parents can relate to the dilemma Debra Harrell faced when her 9-year-old daughter asked to play unsupervised in a park this summer. How do you find the time and money for child care when school is out?Harrell's answer to Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire 07/28/2014 11:30am • RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises.Insurance exchange customers who o In Chinese shadow, Hong Kong fights for its future 07/28/2014 06:26am • KELVIN CHAN Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) -- As skyscrapers around Hong Kong harbor erupted into a reverie of laser beams and giant digital displays during their synchronized nightly light show, one innocuous 28-story building near the water's edge had stayed dark for months, clad in bamboo scaffo TV team: Actor, detective role paired for 25 years 07/26/2014 09:42pm • LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- British actor David Suchet has spent a quarter-century bringing to life a certain fussy Belgian sleuth with a mustache as impeccable as his intellect and crime-solving skills.For Suchet's dedication to Hercule Poirot through 70 TV adaptations of Ag Colts' Ballard out for season due to torn Achilles 07/26/2014 05:02pm • MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) -- Colts running back Vick Ballard spent 10 months working his way back from a serious injury.Now he has to do it again.On Saturday, coach Chuck Pagano confirmed Indianapolis' worst fear -- that Ballard tore his left Achilles' tendon and will need s New Jersey sues over Florida pizza shop logo 07/26/2014 02:20pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The New Jersey Turnpike Authority wants a Florida pizza shop to pay a big toll for using a logo similar to the Garden State Parkway's green and yellow signs.The agency sued Jersey Boardwalk Pizza Tuesday in federal court over the logo it uses for its two pizza shops and on merc Shark sightings off Cape Cod a boon for tourism 07/24/2014 02:50pm • RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- Great white sharks are having an unusual effect on Cape Cod this summer, and many a merchant is going to need a bigger wallet.The sharks being spotted in growing numbers are stirring curiosity and a buying frenzy for shark-related merchandise.Sh Review: Amazon Fire offers new ways to use phones 07/24/2014 02:32pm • ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- What I find fascinating about Amazon's Fire phone isn't the gizmos such as the 3-D imagery or the camera scanner that helps you get more information about products.Rather, I like that Amazon is thinking a lot about how phones ought to work.The iPh