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Social media prenups aim to put the brakes on hurtful posts 06/13/2014 04:12pm • WASHINGTON - More couples are sitting down with their lawyers before tying the knot to hash out what they can post on social media about one another as part of their prenuptial agreement. "A social media prenup is an agreement in writing between a couple about what's cool and not cool to share w Parents and social media: Time to clean up your act? 06/13/2014 02:37pm • WASHINGTON -- Parents are monitoring their children's social media involvement by limiting screen time and restricting access to certain sites. But many parents don't realize that their kids are monitoring them as well. "As the kids get older and get access online, as you're watching them, we Iraq violence threatens OPEC's precarious balance 06/13/2014 05:04am • JONATHAN FAHEY AP Energy Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The upheaval in Iraq could throw the world's remarkably stable oil market out of balance, threatening a delicate equilibrium that has kept prices steady for much of the last four years.Iraqi oil production is at risk because of the outbreak of violenc Sunni militants vow to march on Iraqi capital 06/13/2014 02:50am • SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Islamic militants who seized cities and towns vowed Thursday to march on Baghdad to settle old scores, joined by Saddam Hussein-era loyalists and other disaffected Sunnis capitalizing on the government's political paralysis over the biggest threat to Hans Riemer: Why You Should Vote For Me 06/12/2014 11:05am • We asked local candidates in contested primary elections to write a sub-750 word essay describing why residents should vote for them on June 24. Next up in the County Council at-large race is Hans Riemer, who is running for one of four nominations in the Democratic primary. Below is Riemer’s u Hans Riemer: Why You Should Vote For Me 06/12/2014 11:05am • We asked local candidates in contested primary elections to write a sub-750 word essay describing why residents should vote for them on June 24. Next up in the County Council at-large race is Hans Riemer, who is running for one of four nominations in the Democratic primary. Below is Riemer’s u Immigrant children not coming to Baltimore 06/12/2014 08:10am • BALTIMORE (AP) -- Baltimore officials say a vacant downtown office building is no longer being considered as a place to house immigrant children.The building was once used by the Social Security Administration. Federal officials were considering using it as temporary housing for 9,500 unaccompani Al-Qaida breakaway pursuing an Islamic state 06/12/2014 07:48am • RYAN LUCAS Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- An al-Qaida splinter group that has seized a huge chunk of northern Iraq commands as many as 10,000 fighters and has steadily been consolidating its hold on much of northeastern Syria across the border.Its pursuit of an Islamic state that would straddle the US records $130 billion budget deficit in May 06/11/2014 10:28pm • MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government's monthly budget returned to deficit in May after a big April surplus. But the overall imbalance so far is far smaller than it was the same period last year, putting the country on track for the lowest annual deficit in six Cop killers had 3 earlier talks with Vegas police 06/11/2014 07:37pm • KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas police said Wednesday that detectives talked on three occasions earlier this year with a married couple who killed two officers in a pizza shop and a good Samaritan in a nearby store, but they didn't express the extreme anti-authority views tha Blackwater guards face trial in Iraq shootings 06/11/2014 06:45pm • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four former Blackwater Worldwide security guards went on trial Wednesday in the killings of 14 Iraqis and the wounding of at least 18 others.Over the next few days, a jury of 12 residents from the District of Columbia will be chosen from a pool of 111 pe Bethesda Nonprofit On Front Lines Of 100K Fight Against Homelessness 06/11/2014 10:05am • On Wednesday morning, a large group will gather on Capitol Hill to announce it has surpassed its goal of placing 100,000 chronically homeless individuals in permanent housing across the country. At the press conference will be staff from Bethesda Cares, the nonprofit headquartered on the first floo Militants overrun most of major Iraqi city 06/11/2014 06:20am • SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq's eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government buildings, pushing out security forces and capturing military vehicles as thousands of residents fle House approves transportation, housing measure 06/10/2014 09:30pm • ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The GOP-controlled House on Tuesday passed a huge bill providing money for transportation and housing programs despite protests from Democrats that the $105 billion measure shortchanges transit projects, Amtrak and rent subsidies for the poor.The Hou Report: Social Security judges rubber-stamp claims 06/10/2014 07:00pm • STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid complaints about lengthy waits for Social Security disability benefits, congressional investigators say nearly 200 administrative judges have been rubber-stamping claims, approving billions of dollars in lifetime payments from the cash-stra