Articles filed under Washington Post
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Rising fees have bitcoin users rethinking practicalityOct 07, 2017 7:15 am - Ryan Charles recently switched his business, the social platform Yours Inc., from using bitcoin — simply because he couldn't afford it. Fees for sending money over the d...
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Mattel cancels plans for a kid-focused AI device after privacy complaintsOct 07, 2017 7:00 am - Mattel said Wednesday that it will not move forward with plans to sell a kid-focused smart hub, after new executives decided it did not “fully align with Mattel's new te...
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Female doctors find bias in how they're introducedOct 05, 2017 11:00 pm - Julia Files and Anita Mayer, physicians at the Mayo Clinic, started seeing a pattern: When their male colleagues were introduced at conferences, they were usually called...
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Why Netflix is raising prices again and what it could mean for cord-cuttingOct 05, 2017 1:00 am - Netflix said Thursday that it's raising the prices of its U.S.-based streaming plans - a move that could disappoint some fans even as it helps support the costly origina...
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These Nationals have more postseason experience than ever. But will it matter?Oct 04, 2017 1:00 am - Nine hats hang on the wall of the gym in Jayson Werth's home, one for each of the division titles the Washington Nationals outfielder has won in his 15-year career. They...
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Dusty Baker wants a World Series ring and a new contractOct 04, 2017 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - When Dusty Baker was in the sixth grade, he told his classmates he would become a professional athlete one day. He didn't specify which sport because he had...
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Trump: Puerto Rico officials should be 'proud' more haven't died like in KatrinaOct 03, 2017 1:00 am - President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Puerto Rico officials they should feel "proud" they haven't lost thousands of lives like in "a real catastrophe like Katrina," whi...
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Man who helped people escape Las Vegas shooting now has bullet in his neckOct 03, 2017 1:00 am - LAS VEGAS - Jonathan Smith is likely to spend the rest of his life with a bullet lodged in the left side of his neck, a never-ending reminder of America's deadliest mass...
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Russian Facebook ads showed black woman firing rifle, amid efforts to stoke racial strifeOct 02, 2017 1:00 am - One of the Russian-bought advertisements that Facebook shared with congressional investigators on Monday featured photographs of an armed black woman "dry firing" a rifl...
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The new reality of old age in America: 'I'm going to work until I die'Oct 01, 2017 7:23 am - Richard Dever had swabbed the campground shower stalls and emptied 20 garbage cans, and now he climbed slowly onto a John Deere mower to cut a couple acres of grass. "I'...