Articles filed under Washington Post
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The right way, and the wrong way, to redeem your travel rewardsOct 25, 2015 7:40 am - For the average person flying coach from Italy to New York, the highlight of the nine-hour flight in a cramped airplane seat might be a hot meal or a good movie to pass ...
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IRS enhances efforts to combat identity fraudOct 25, 2015 7:39 am - WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service and private tax preparers say they are beefing up efforts to limit tax-related identity theft for the 2016 filing season, testi...
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The real reason Arctic drilling is faltering right nowOct 25, 2015 7:36 am - WASHINGTON - To those who aren't oil industry insiders, it seems like the most sudden of turnabouts. Shell appeared all set to drill in the Arctic - but then pulled out ...
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Students take up the Fight for $15 for another group: ThemselvesOct 25, 2015 7:34 am - WASHINGTON - Over the past few years, thousands of students have waved picket signs and chanted slogans in support of raising the minimum wage for people who toil in fas...
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How SALT teaches students about college debt before problems ariseOct 25, 2015 7:32 am - Andrew Brown, a Howard University senior, had a pretty enticing display of free swag, including knapsacks, pens, cups and magnets, all emblazoned with one word: SALT. "H...
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What the credit card offers you receive tell you about yourselfOct 25, 2015 7:31 am - If you want to know what credit card companies think of you, look at your mail. Are you "prescreened" for lots of mileage-reward cards? Banks think you're rich and educa...
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Here's why Facebook needed to tweak its 'On This Day' featureOct 24, 2015 7:43 am - In an acknowledgement that not every social media moment is a fun trip into nostalgia, Facebook has now enabled filters on its "On This Day" feature, which resurfaces pa...
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Internet sleuths are furiously trying to find out who made an ominous viral videoOct 24, 2015 7:40 am - A shaky video shot in front of a gloomy, windowed brick wall and filled with coded messages has become an object of fascination in certain corners of the Internet, a...
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Match.com says hackers are after its dataOct 24, 2015 7:38 am - Match Group, the corporate parent of Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com, is planning to go public - which honestly won't have much impact on the 59 million people looking for...
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App reviews: Twitter Moments, Photoshop MixOct 24, 2015 7:36 am - For its devoted users, Twitter is a torrent of information in which to splash around to pick up everything from the latest news to the latest meme. But for those who are...