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After men's razors, Harry's launches shaving brand for women 10/16/2018 07:28am • NEW YORK (AP) — Harry's has carved out a niche selling men shaving razors direct to their doors, elbowing in on an industry long dominated by names like Gillette and Schick. In the process, the company says it found that 1 million women were using its products for their shaving needs. So its Q&A: 'Beetlejuice: The Musical' makes world premiere at National Theatre 10/16/2018 12:48am • WASHINGTON — Say it three times! No, not "Beetlejuice," but musical, musical, musical! Just in time for Halloween, Tim Burton's cult film classic "Beetlejuice" makes its pre-Broadway premiere at D.C.'s National Theatre with "Beetlejuice: The Musical" from Oct. 14 to Nov. 18. "We're no Canadian Program Aims to Boost Birth Outcomes for Low-Income Women 10/15/2018 08:00pm • Once a month during her two pregnancies, Winnipeg resident Wendy Zebrasky opened her mailbox to find a check for 81 Canadian dollars from the province of Manitoba. The checks came care of a government program that gives low-income women a cash stipend during pregnancy, no requirements or strings att 10 Universities With the Biggest Endowments 10/15/2018 08:00pm • The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: How to Communicate Effectively With Your College Kid 10/14/2018 08:00pm • Parents of college kids frequently ask me about how they can best communicate with their kids. I understand the difficulty and confusion inherent in this question. The transition from high school to college is difficult for both parents and children for a variety of reasons. Parents and their high 4 Ways Coverdell Educational Savings Accounts Differ From 529 Plans 10/14/2018 08:00pm • Families may want to consider multiple types of savings vehicles when deciding how to save for college. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, known as ESAs, are tax-advantaged accounts designed to help families save for elementary, secondary and college expenses. In many ways, these accounts operat Why Black and Hispanic Kids Are More Likely to Die of Some Cancers 10/14/2018 08:00pm • A raft of research suggests that socioeconomic factors such as disparities in income and education are responsible for a sharp division in health outcomes for blacks and Hispanics on one end and whites on the other. Overall, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to suffer from chronic conditions like Friday night lights may return to Alexandria high school after 53 years 10/14/2018 12:57pm • WASHINGTON — A decades-old agreement between the City of Alexandria, Virginia, and residents who live near T.C. Williams High School to never build stadium lights is being tossed away as the school works to modernize its athletic facility. The city council voted 6-1 Saturday in favor of a plan Sterling gets a Sky Zone trampoline park 10/12/2018 08:26am • WASHINGTON — Los Angeles-based Sky Zone trampoline park will open its newest D.C.-area location in Sterling, Virginia, Oct. 18. Sky Zone trampoline parks feature wall-to-wall, multiple connected trampolines. The Sterling location will also have a ropes course, multiplayer action games, a zip li After Florence, a young Marine couple sets out for Marine Corps Marathon 10/12/2018 05:03am • WASHINGTON — The 43rd Marine Corps Marathon will be the first marathon that 30-year-old Kevin Rodriguez, an active duty Marine, will run in his life. It’ll also be the Corpus Christi, Texas, native’s first trip to the nation’s capital. But amid all that excitement, one could probably forg Any given Saturday: DC’s Premier League subculture 10/12/2018 02:38am • WASHINGTON — When does subculture become simply culture? If we haven’t yet reached that fulcrum with Premier League soccer fandom in America, the powers that be are doing their best to push us over the ledge. Or, perhaps more accurately, into the light. Up to this point, Premier League vie Movie Review: ‘First Man’ is intimate masterpiece on Neil Armstrong's life 10/12/2018 12:25am • WASHINGTON — The final frontier of space has proven fertile ground for phenomenal fiction filmmaking in recent years, from Alfonso Cuaron's masterful "Gravity" (2013) to Christopher Nolan's imaginative "Interstellar" (2014) to Ridley Scott's entertaining "The Martian" (2015). And yet, it's 7 questions to ask when your child needs a tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy 10/11/2018 08:00pm • Kids are notorious for having colds, sore throats and ear infections — it's just part of growing up and a sign that their bodies are busy building the immunities they'll need later in life. Although we're born with a fairly robust system for fending off infections — the immune system — it isn' How Elder Orphans Can Receive Care as They Age 10/11/2018 08:00pm • Preparing for our golden years in middle age is usually focused on fattening a 401(k), keeping up with the hottest ranked retirement cities and thinking about how we might adapt a home for aging in place. But are you giving much thought to who'll take care of you when your health, mobility and indep Montgomery Co. students could get longer spring break once again 10/11/2018 06:08am • WASHINGTON — It is a long way off, but education leaders in Montgomery County, Maryland, are already considering a calendar for the 2019-2020 school year. The county's board of education said this week that it would soon choose between a pair of calendar options. One plan would return studen