13+ min ago (82+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. How affordable are Thanksgiving groceries across the country? Turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing " these foods are practically synonymous with Thanksgiving. Many households across the country will probably have some version of those dishes on their dinner plates Thursday. The total cost of your Thanksgiving grocery haul will vary depending on where you're shopping....

13+ min ago (172+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Dear Miss Manners: My 30-year-old cousin is getting married, and my relatives believe she is doing everything wrong. In fact, a growing list of the bride-to-be's "inappropriate" wedding choices has become the family's favorite topic, especially among the 65+ ladies (all discussed behind my cousin's back, of course). The specific crimes my cousin has committed include: investing tens of thousands of dollars into her bachelorette party, wedding and honeymoon (instead of saving for a house and future children); holding the event on a Thursday; inviting out-of-state relatives, but forbidding their children from attending; requesting that guests RSVP using a QR code, included on the mailed invitations; holding the rehearsal the morning of the…...

13+ min ago (91+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Human oversight was supposed to prevent artificial intelligence from warping job applicant selection processes, but a new study says it's not enough to mitigate bias. At a time when artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in hiring decisions, new research suggests that humans working with these systems are more likely to go along with their biases than to counter them....

13+ min ago (136+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Dear Carolyn: I'm still reeling from a recent breakup but not getting much sympathy or understanding from friends and family. My girlfriend, "Lisa," and I were supposed to get married Labor Day weekend, but a few weeks before the wedding, I started to worry that we hadn't known each other long enough and hadn't lived together. I'd read that two years is the minimum you should date before getting married. We knew each other just nine months before we got engaged in July and were planning to move in together only after the wedding. Lisa's parents are really old-fashioned that way....

13+ min ago (120+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Godparent was pressured into spending more on goddaughter's wedding dress, so they're skipping the wedding. Dear Eric: My goddaughter is getting married in December. Her parents have experienced crushing financial loss through no fault of their own. So, I told my goddaughter I would contribute $500 to the wedding dress. She picked out a dress without consulting me that cost nearly 10 times that much and sent me a picture of the receipts. After much back and forth she "heard" that I would pay for all of the dress....

36+ min ago (91+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Travis Turner, whose Union football team advanced in the playoffs without him, has been missing since Thursday, the same day police were sent to his house. A search continued Monday in Southwest Virginia's hilly terrain for a missing high school football coach " whose 12-0 team advanced in the state playoffs without him " after he was sought by police last week....

57+ min ago (86+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Sixty dozen eggs were taken from a store in the Washington suburb last week. Hundreds of eggs were stolen last week from a store in Takoma Park, Maryland, but according to a report from the police there, investigators got a break and apparently cracked the case. Three people were arrested and charged with theft, the police said....

2+ hour, 12+ min ago (104+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The grinding progress for Russia on the battlefield has resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties but enough progress for Putin to refuse any compromises in diplomacy. Clad in military fatigues, President Vladimir Putin last week visited a Russian military command post, where commanders presented Russia's brilliant advances, claiming to have conquered the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk " a view contradicted by open-source analysts reporting on the front line " and almost all of Pokrovsk....

3+ hour, 5+ min ago (106+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. Beijing is piling heat on Japan's prime minister in a diplomatic standoff, even appealing to the U.S." as a fellow World War II victor" to take its side. Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged President Donald Trump to help protect the post-World War II order " a tacit reference to supporting Beijing's claims over Taiwan " in a phone call that Chinese analysts have claimed as a win in Beijing's tense standoff with Japan....

3+ hour, 32+ min ago (117+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The Bullis senior, an Olympic gold medalist and four-time All-Met Athlete of the Year selection, chose the Terrapins over South Carolina, Texas A&M, UCLA and USC. As friends, family, classmates and teammates flooded a Bowie restaurant and awaited Quincy Wilson's arrival, murmurs about where the Bullis track star would go to college grew louder. A vast majority of the predictions were for larger, more traditional track and field powerhouses. But when Wilson arrived, he shocked the crowd by announcing his intention to sign with Maryland....