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10 Ways to Improve Your Finances with Social Media 06/16/2015 08:00pm • Up your social game.Twitter can make it easier to lodge a customer service complaint, and LinkedIn can help you land a new job. Facebook friends can offer encouragement when you share progress toward goals, and you can collect inspiring images of what you're saving for on Pinterest. There are all so 5 Dividend-Paying Stocks for Retirees 06/15/2015 08:00pm • After saving for most of your life, retirement is the time to make your investments and money work for you with income-generating assets. If you are in retirement, it's important to have multiple income streams, such as Social Security and savings and investments you built up on your own. For the l How to Retire Overseas in 7 Steps 06/15/2015 08:00pm • Millions of Americans have retired to other countries in recent years, and more are choosing to retire overseas all the time. Moving overseas can be a dramatic change, but frequently leads to a new life that is more exciting and cheaper. Here's how to break the adventure down into steps. Step 1: De 5 Ways to Retire Early 06/14/2015 08:00pm • Early retirement is a dream for some people, and a nightmare for others. Many baby boomers have been booted out of the workplace in their 50s, unexpectedly and unceremoniously, while they still have a mortgage, a car loan and college tuition bills. Suddenly there's no more paycheck, no more benefit The 3 Biggest Social Media Snafus That Can Cost You the Job 06/14/2015 08:00pm • "Better safe than sorry" is the motto job seekers and employees alike should adopt when it comes to posting on social media. "Many underestimate the reach of social media," says David Hoffeld, CEO of Hoffeld Group. "Social media is search-engine friendly, and many wrongly assume that when they post OPM warns of scammers after cyber attack 06/12/2015 01:07pm • WASHINGTON – Millions of federal workers who had their personal information stolen in the Office of Personnel Management cyber attack will have to watch out for another security concern. Scammers may attempt to profit from employees who think they are trying to protect their identity after the bre How King v. Burwell Could End the Obamacare Wars Once and For All 06/11/2015 08:00pm • In December, 1993 influential GOP operative William Kristol circulated a memorandum to Republican leaders counseling against cooperating with President Bill Clinton on health care. The party, he argued, should work to stop rather than contain the reform effort because once such a new entitlement had Va. teen admits he's behind pro-ISIS Twitter account 06/11/2015 09:57am • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) _ A 17-year-old who otherwise would have been graduating with honors from high school this week instead pleaded guilty Thursday to terrorism charges for helping another teen travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Ali Shukri Amin of Manassas pleaded guilty to conspiring to 11 Tips for Starting a Business in Retirement 06/10/2015 08:00pm • The baby boomer generation is redefining retirement. While their parents may have looked forward to golf in their golden years, many people heading toward retirement today are thinking about work instead. Some of that focus on punching the clock is necessity, and some is desire. Most baby boomers d The Hunt: Social media key to Islamic State's success 06/10/2015 03:48pm • ISIL has survived and even thrived for a year in Iraq. In this week's edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Iraq's Ambassador to the U.S. Lukman Faily says social media is the key to their success. The Financial Picture When Your Parents Move In 06/09/2015 08:00pm • There's a lot of talk of boomerang kids who come back to live with mom and dad after graduating from college, but sometimes parents can boomerang, too. Sometimes, it can make sense for a mother or father to move in with an adult child. Heck, it might even be fun, if you and your parent have a good How much you need to buy a retirement home in 10 cities 06/09/2015 09:00am • Expensive metro areas Retirement in a major metropolitan area often gives you access to great medical care, culture and other amenities. But the cost of housing is often much higher than what you would pay to live in a smaller city. Here's a look at the housing costs for retirees in 10 major U.S. 4 Surprising Ways Your Identity Can Be Stolen 06/08/2015 08:00pm • You bought a shredder the moment identity theft experts started stressing their necessity. You have 72 different passwords locked away in a fireproof safe, which is where you keep all of your personal financial information. But it may not matter. Thieves are resourceful and shrewd when it comes to Iraqi official: Deal with ISIL now in Iraq, or later in the U.S. 06/08/2015 06:38am • WASHINGTON -- A top Iraqi diplomat is warning the West has been too slow to address the global crisis presented by the Islamic State, and may soon have to pay a heavy cost. Lukman Faily, Iraq’s Ambassador to the U.S., told WTOP in an exclusive interview that while the west is intellectualizing Diets of Straw 06/07/2015 08:00pm • We have been diverting what we know about nutrition and health into lamentable nonsense for decades already. But now, our dialogue about nutrition seems to have devolved further into a sequence of assaults on straw man arguments, aided and abetted by the shoot-aim-ready inclination that prevails in