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Is a Donor-Advised Fund Right For You? 07/18/2016 08:00pm • Most Americans with any degree of investable assets are seeking ways to minimize their overall tax bill. In retirement, when people are withdrawing from their accounts, taxes on required minimum distributions and Social Security income can add up fast. While there's no way to avoid paying income ta 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 10 Costs to Include in Your Retirement Budget 07/17/2016 08:00pm • Retirement billsYou won't have to pay commuting costs or buy expensive clothes for work in retirement. But you might face new costs as you use more health care services or take up new hobbies to fill your days. Remember to factor these expenses into your retirement budget.HousingHousing is likely to Retirement Savings Tax Breaks for High Earners 07/17/2016 08:00pm • Some tax perks for retirement savers are phased out for people who earn above a certain amount, including the ability to claim the saver's credit or contribute to a Roth IRA. But there are plenty of other tax benefits that people with relatively high incomes enjoy. Here's a look at some of the retir '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 ABLE Accounts: A New Way to Save for Disability Costs 07/14/2016 08:00pm • In the new movie "Finding Dory," the title character has special needs and debilitating "short-term remembery" issues. Through the love, education and understanding of her parents, she has developed skills to help her navigate life differently. As a father of a special needs daughter, I love how thi Veterans: Combat Arms is Great Preparation for a Civilian Career 07/14/2016 08:00pm • When most people think about military personnel they picture troops who serve in the combat arms. That is to say that they envision Army or Marine infantrymen, artillerymen, tankers and combat engineers who fire weapons in the offense and defense on the ground. These are the warriors; the so called In France, Anxiety Deepens After Attack 07/14/2016 08:00pm • Thursday's deadly attack in France places further strain on a beleaguered nation being tested by a variety of social and political tensions, including how its countrymen and women will react to the third high-profile attack in just over a year and a half. It also underscores the deep social divides 3 Important Things to Know About Networking in Law School 07/13/2016 08:00pm • For Harrison Freeman, reaching out to friends, strangers and associates has been a large part of his strategy for finding summer internships as a law student -- and it's worked. "Networking literally got me my 1L internship," says Freeman, who just finished his second year at Boston University Schoo Netanyahu's Hard Right Turn Away From His Generals 07/13/2016 08:00pm • TEL AVIV, Israel -- When Danielle Mini read the news on May 18 from Germany and saw what was happening back home in Israel, she thought to herself, "This is not a democracy." On that day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had essentially fired Israel's respected defense minister, Moshe Ya'alon, aft How to Set Up an Online Brokerage Account 07/13/2016 08:00pm • Think of your brokerage account like the quarterback of a football team. It helps you play call your investing directives no matter what type of formation you're using. Just like the gridiron, it all depends on your lineup, which may include mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, individual stocks, b Pokemon Go: Collecting All the Data? 07/12/2016 08:00pm • Pokemon Go debuted on iOS and Android last week, and quickly became one of the hottest apps on the market. Within five hours, it hurtled to No. 1 on the download charts for iOS users, according to data-tracking intelligence firm Sensor Tower. As the name implies, the app is based on the popular Pok How Retirement Planning Varies by Generation 07/12/2016 08:00pm • Retirement planning for today's twenty-somethings is not the same as it was for their parents or grandparents. Fifty years ago, it wasn't unusual for long-term employees to have a pension that guaranteed a certain amount of income in retirement. But today, this is no longer the case. And this chang Investments in Nigeria Are Going Nowhere Anytime Soon 07/11/2016 08:00pm • While the media has been focused on the U.K.'s political theater of the absurd, elsewhere serious economic problems have been developing. A case in point is Nigeria, where the once booming economy has fallen on hard times and looks set to get even worse following events in late June. The country ha Facebook tests encrypted, self-destructing Messenger chats 07/11/2016 08:27am • WASHINGTON — Facebook wants to offer users more privacy in one-to-one discussions, and is testing a more secure type of Messenger conversation. A small number of users currently have the option of switching to "secret conversations" -- conversations that are encrypted end-to-end, meaning that