Vasily Pindyurin | fStop | Getty Images Consumers lost a record $10 billion to fraud in 2023, and imposter scams were the most prevalent swindle, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Nearly 854,000 people filed complaints to the FTC about imposter scams in 2023. This represents 33% of the total consumer fraud reports filed to … Read more
A teenager has died and a young girl is in a critical condition after a serious head-on collision near Dubbo, New South Wales. Police and paramedics were called to Dunedoo Rd, near Ballimore Rd, Ballimore about 6pm on Thursday following reports of a crash between a semi-trailer and SUV. The front passenger of the SUV, … Read more
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Supermicro keynote presentation during the Computex conference in Taipei on June 1, 2023. Walid Berrazeg | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Investors have become so enamored with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence story that they want a piece of anything the chipmaker touches. On Wednesday, Nvidia disclosed in … Read more
President Joe Biden speaks about his economic plan at the Flex LTD manufacturing plant on July 6, 2023 in West Columbia, South Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images The Biden administration has released its proposal for which struggling borrowers should qualify for its new student loan forgiveness plan. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked President … Read more
(NewsNation) — Drivers got a bit of good news as gas prices dropped in January, but while pain at the pump may have eased, other car-related costs have risen. January gas prices were down 80 cents from a peak in September 2023. However, prices are starting to tick up again as the price of oil … Read more
Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25, a New York judge ruled Thursday, turning aside demands for a delay from the former president’s defense lawyers. The decision sets the stage for a case centered on years-old accusations that Trump sought to bury stories about extramarital affairs that arose during … Read more
ROME – Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome’s historic seven hills. He criticized people’s tendency to lay bare their lives on social media, deploring “a world in which everything, including … Read more
Donald Trump faces 34 counts of accounting fraud linked to payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. (File) New York: A New York judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s attempts to dismiss charges he covered up hush money payments to a porn star, setting the stage for the first criminal trial ever of a former US … Read more
Fani Willis friend tells hearing DA’s relationship with Wade began before he was hired A friend of Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis testified just earlier in the Georgia hearing in the criminal election interference case against Donald Trump and co-defendants. A former Fulton county district attorneyâs office employee, Robin Yeartie, testified that Willisâs personal … Read more
As Ukraine has scrambled to source ammunition, arms and equipment for its defence, Russia has presided over a massive ramping up of industrial production over the last two years that has outstripped what many western defence planners expected when Vladimir Putin launched his invasion. Total defence spending has risen to an estimated 7.5% of Russiaâs … Read more
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