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What Is Proof-of-Stake, and Why Is Ethereum Adopting It? 07/14/2021 12:00am • Just looking at the headlines, cryptocurrencies are in a downturn. The price of Bitcoin has dropped by around half since its peak. More speculative projects, such as Dogecoin, have fallen even further. While this may be discouraging to day traders and fast money types, for longer-term investors, th 8 of the Best Midcap ETFs to Buy 07/14/2021 12:00am • Find a middle ground with midcap ETFs.Many investors tend to think that bigger is better -- but they overlook the middle category of publicly traded stocks that are neither so large that their best growth days are behind them nor so small that one bad quarter will cause disaster. These so-called "mi Your Guide to Retirement Planning 07/12/2021 12:00am • Getting ready for retirement requires consistent saving, prudent investing and successfully avoiding penalties and fees. You can build a nest egg faster if you take advantage of workplace retirement benefits and make optimum use of government programs, including Social Security and Medicare. Here's For top #MeToo legal duo, a pandemic year brings no pause 07/11/2021 02:45pm • She’d just upended her life by going public with sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. And Charlotte Bennett, a former aide to the governor, realized that Saturday night in February that she had no plan for what came next. She was 25 years old, and had never been in the Homelessness divides a Northwest DC neighborhood 07/09/2021 06:17pm • A neighborhood is divided over the future of homeless encampments at the intersection of 12th Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest D.C. In an anonymous letter to the National Park Service in late June, several Ward 2 residents asked officials to clear the encampments at Burke Park and Gom The Top 10 Largest Private Equity Firms in the World 07/08/2021 12:00am • Private equity firms have come out of the pandemic red-hot, inking more than 2,300 deals in the first five months of 2021, an increase of 21.9% from the same period last year. A combination of historically low interest rates and record levels of fundraising has sent private equity investors racing t Alexandria City Council redirects funds from SROs to mental health resources 07/07/2021 03:59am • Despite objections from a majority of its school board, the Alexandria, Virginia, City Council voted Tuesday night to spend funds originally meant to pay school resource officers (SROs) to hire more mental health professionals. The council decided in May to eliminate the $789,909 from the 2022 bu Capitol Police change training, security procedures 6 months after insurrection 07/06/2021 10:44am • Six months after a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as the 46th president of the United States, U.S. Capitol Police has announced departmental changes to training, communication, security and wellness services. Among the improvements Pets and fireworks: How to keep your animals calm and safe on July 4 07/04/2021 06:00am • We may find fireworks beautiful and festive, but they explode like magnified gunfire in the exquisitely sensitive ears of many of our pets. Measuring between 150 and 175 decibels, fireworks are louder than many planes at takeoff (about 140 decibels). Decibels measure the loudness of a sound while Investigation into violent night at Nellie's Sports Bar goes to DC attorney general's office 06/30/2021 08:12pm • The investigation into allegations that a woman was dragged down the stairs by security at Nellie’s Sports Bar in D.C. is now heading to the District’s Office of the Attorney General. The city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board said it referred the case to the OAG on Wednesday. On June 1 Fired vs. Laid Off vs. Furloughed -- What's the Difference? 06/30/2021 12:00am • Have you recently lost your job? This may leave you feeling like your career path is suddenly a dead-end road. If so, you aren't alone. Many professionals have experienced career loss, such as being fired, laid off or furloughed. This can feel frustrating and confusing, so it's best to understand t U.S. Public Image Recovers After 2020 While China Remains Negative 06/30/2021 12:00am • While global attitudes toward the United States have been on the upward trend this year, a majority of public opinion around the world view China in an unfavorable light, according to a new study from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Last year, at the onset of the pandemic, Pew reported that ne Millions of jobs and a shortage of applicants: Welcome to the new economy 06/29/2021 05:43am • There's a problem at James Hook's chicken farms, and it has nothing to do with poultry. P.D. Hook, a hatchery that supplies one third of the chickens sold in the United Kingdom, should be humming along as the economy roars back to life. But the company is short about 40 farm workers, double the u Biden's frantic weekend saves infrastructure deal but leaves him on thin ice 06/28/2021 12:00am • That Joe Biden's cherished bipartisan infrastructure plan was nearly destroyed by a few of his own ill-chosen words highlights both the fragility of the deal and his own hopes for a productive domestic presidency. Biden's extraordinary weekend effort to walk back his own remark on Thursday, inter Montgomery County board of education to consider charter school applications 06/25/2021 03:35pm • On Tuesday, the Board of Education in Montgomery County, Maryland, will get a closer look at proposals to establish charter schools. One applicant hopes to create two K-5 schools -- one for boys, one for girls. A second applicant is proposing a middle and high school with an emphasis on business.