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Virginians don't need a photo ID to vote, yet 11/04/2013 05:02pm • WASHINGTON - Virginians going to the polls Tuesday will need to bring along some form of identification, but it doesn't have to be a photo ID. The state's new photo ID law doesn't take effect until July 2014. "Your driver's license, military ID, you can even use your voter registration card," s Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 11/04/2013 01:04am • 2:20 p.m. - Fairfax Hackley, personal trainer Download Learn the ropes to torch fat 7:40 p.m. Scott Stein, senior editor at CNET Download Breaking down the iPad air and how it compares to other tablets 7:20 p.m. Chris Chase, USA Today Sports Crime Report: Police Cruiser Vandalized 10/31/2013 03:30pm • Someone smashed a police cruiser’s windshield in the Columbia Heights neighborhood last Thursday. The incident happened around lunchtime. From this week’s Arlington County crime report: VANDALISM, 10/24/13, 1000 block of S. Cleveland Street. Between 12:40 pm on October 24 to 1:00 pm NSA official: 'We're not big brother' 10/31/2013 02:27am • WASHINGTON - National Security Agency officials want Americans to understand something. "We're way too busy, we're moving way to fast and frankly we don't care about and we don't have time to monitor American's activities," said Lonny Anderson, Director of NSA's Technology Directorate in an in Alfonso Lopez: Why You Should Vote For Me 10/25/2013 02:00pm • This week, we asked the candidates for competitive House of Delegates races in Arlington districts to write a sub-750 word essay describing why residents of their districts should vote for them on Election Day (Nov. 5). Here is the unedited response from 49th District candidate Alfonso Lopez: I curr Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 10/24/2013 10:38am • 11:10 a.m. - Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst Download Retiring early has a huge impact on your Social Security. Related Link: Marketwatch: Social Security's real retirement age is 70 8:10 p.m. - Mike McCarthy, editor-in-chief of DC Magazine Download Inside the Looking Glass: The staggering pace of change 10/24/2013 01:27am • WTOP's J.J. Green recently was granted an exclusive look at the Defense Intelligence Agency's situation center. In this three-part series, he talks with DIA Director Michael T. Flynn about the agency's global monitoring capabilities, the threats facing the United States and the future of intellig Report: D.C. among top U.S. cities targeted by web scammers 10/23/2013 08:06pm • WASHINGTON - When cyber crooks lay their online traps, D.C. computer addresses are among their favorites to target, according to a cybersecurity firm. The scammers create phony websites to lure people into revealing financial or personal information, including credit card, bank account and Social Around world, threat of US default induces shrugs 10/14/2013 01:38pm • By BERNARD CONDON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Warren Buffett likens it to a nuclear attack. Economists warn that government spending on programs like Social Security would plunge. The Treasury says the economy would slide into a recession worse than the last. Yet you wouldn't know that a Social Security increase among lowest in decades 10/14/2013 07:01am • By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Another year, another small raise for millions of people who rely on Social Security, veterans' benefits and federal pensions. Preliminary figures suggest next year's benefit increase will be roughly 1.5 percent, according to an analysis Poll: Half of older workers delay retirement plans 10/14/2013 06:38am • By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Stung by a recession that sapped investments and home values, but expressing widespread job satisfaction, older Americans appear to have accepted the reality of a retirement that comes later in life and no longer represents a complete exit from t US never defaulted on its debt? Not so fast 10/14/2013 06:03am • By CONNIE CASS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - You hear a perfect record cited over and over in the debt limit debate: The United States has never defaulted. Better put an asterisk by that. America has briefly stiffed some of its creditors on at least two occasions. Once, the young nation Shutdown impact: Some national parks could reopen 10/11/2013 03:18pm • By The Associated Press The government shutdown continues with some glimmer of hope for those who would like to visit the nation's national parks: The Obama administration said it would consider offers from the states to use their own money to pay for park operations and Utah jumped at the chance. Poll: Americans find little to like in Washington 10/11/2013 06:45am • By NEDRA PICKLER and JENNIFER AGIESTA Associated Press WASHINGTON - Americans are finding little they like about President Barack Obama or either political party, according to a new poll that suggests the possibility of a "throw the bums out" mentality in next year's midterm elections. The AP-Gf 'Captain Phillips' pits Tom Hanks against Somali pirates 10/10/2013 03:32pm • WASHINGTON - Certain current events beckon the big screen treatment. When SEAL Team Six took out Osama Bin Laden at that Pakistani compound in 2011, Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) seemed like a foregone conclusion. Likewise, when a band of four Somali pirates hijacked a U.S. carg