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Inside the psychology of overspending and how to stop 09/24/2021 09:44am • Financial stability comes from following the basics of personal finance, like creating a budget, but there's also an emotional element in attitudes and decision-making around money. One common financial challenge, overspending, can be eliminated with a combination of practical strategies and emotion All DC public, private school staff must be vaccinated, Bowser says 09/20/2021 03:33pm • All D.C. schools workers will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by November, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday, removing the option to submit to regular testing. The requirement includes public and private schools, as well as day care staff, bus drivers, security staff and coaches. T Organizer of Saturday rally looks to rewrite Jan. 6 history 09/17/2021 12:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The architect of a Washington protest planned for Saturday that aims to rewrite history about the violent January assault on the U.S. Capitol is hardly a household name. Matt Braynard worked as an analyst for the Republican Party, crunched data for a small election firm and la Prince William School Board meeting cleared due to unruly crowd 09/16/2021 01:04am • Police trying to clear the room at the Prince William County School Board meeting on Sept. 15, 2021. (InsideNova/Jared Foretek) This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A Third child tax credit payment set to go out to families 09/15/2021 07:11am • Millions of families will soon receive their third child tax credit payments, which are set to be distributed on September 15. Most parents will automatically receive the enhanced credits of up to $300 for each child up to age 6 and $250 for each one age 6 through 17. The Internal Revenue Service How criminals extort social media users for their handles 09/13/2021 07:34am • Online handles have become valuable status symbols — and some cybercriminals are going to frightening lengths to bully, harass and extort users into giving them up. Federal officials tell CBS News they are concerned about the rise in attempts to get innocent social media users to surrender thei Vulnerable Democrats push for local priorities in budget 09/13/2021 05:05am • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne of Iowa was slow to get behind a $1 trillion infrastructure bill after the Senate passed it last month. It wasn't the price tag that tripped up the Democrat from a swing House district. It was that none of the money was targeted for a home state industr Heightened security at Frederick school after threat made against students 09/13/2021 04:54am • Police in the city of Frederick, Maryland, said charges are pending against a Monocacy Middle School student who threatened via social media to shoot other students. Officials said the threat was credible, but also found the middle school student did not have access to any means that would have a Sept. 11 at 20: WTOP looks back and forward 09/11/2021 04:57am • It’s impossible to forget the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the plane crashes at the World Trade Center, in New York; the Pentagon, and into a field outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania — the scuttling of a hijacking that was likely headed for the Capitol. Whil 9/11 commission’s difficult birth shows the 1/6 panel fight isn’t new 09/10/2021 05:13am • Members of Congress, stunned along with the rest of the country by what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol only hours after the unprecedented terror attacks. “Senators and House members, Democrats and Republicans, will stand shoulder to shoulder to fight this Before smartphones and social media: How WTOP covered Sept. 11, 2001 09/09/2021 04:14am • Reporters covering the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks told the world the who, what, where, when, how, while searching for the why — those basics haven't changed. But thinking back on how the WTOP news team and I covered the attack on the Pentagon, the ways we got the news, and got it to our audience, h How to fix your job so that you love it, in 3 steps 09/06/2021 04:20am • Editor's note: This essay is part of a column called The Wisdom Project, to which you can subscribe here. Our work-life balance has, to borrow a term we all learned in the 2020 Olympics, been feeling "the twisties" during the pandemic. So many of had to adapt to working from home, adjustments an The US and China can't get along — even if the planet's future is at stake 09/06/2021 03:15am • The deadly effects of climate change -- increasingly extreme, unpredictable weather that cities were never designed to withstand -- have never been so apparent. In July, the Chinese city of Zhengzhou was devastated by flooding that killed subway passengers and motorists unable to escape from unde Fairfax schools lean on experience to prepare for Afghan refugees 08/31/2021 02:06pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Nooria Luddin and her younger brother, Samiullah, fled Afghanistan in March 2020 to live with their father in Annandale. Their father, Officers in Montgomery Co. schools are out, but plans for Community Engagement Officers are incomplete 08/30/2021 06:27pm • For the first time in 19 years, kids went back to school in Montgomery County, Maryland, without encountering a police officer in the building. But the plan to replace them is not finalized, even though kids are already back in the classroom. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said the Commu