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Americans lost $10B to scammers last year. Here's how to avoid popular scams 04/18/2024 04:04pm • More than two-and-a-half million Americans lost $10 billion to scammers last year ��� surpassing the total amount lost to scammers in 2022 by a billion dollars. And the tactics used to fool people are only getting savvier and more aggressive ��� which itself should be a big warning sign. What are Tesla shares tumble below $150 per share, giving up all gains made over the past year 04/18/2024 02:08pm • Tesla's stock tumbled below $150 per share, giving up all of the gains made over the past year as the electric vehicle maker reels from falling sales and steep discounts intended to lure more buyers. Shares in the Elon Musk-owned company slid nearly 4% in intraday trading Thursday, in what now stan Movie Review: A heist movie that gleefully collides with a monster movie in 'Abigail' 04/18/2024 10:52am • If you always thought your garden-variety heist movies could do with a bit more blood-sucking vampire, have we got a flick for you. ���Abigail,��� featuring a 12-year-old tutu-wearing member of the undead, is way better than it should be, a gleeful genre-smashing romp through puddles of gore. Direct Tunisian journalist sentenced to 6 months in prison for insulting an official 04/18/2024 09:31am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� A judge in Tunisia sentenced a journalist and political commentator to six months in prison in the country's latest assault on members of the media who criticize the government. Mohamed Boughalleb, who had been charged with insulting a public official, was sentenced Wednesday One Tech Tip: What to do if your personal info has been exposed in a data breach 04/18/2024 12:01am • LONDON (AP) ��� Data breaches like the recent one involving millions of AT&T customers are becoming an almost regular occurrence. As more of our lives move online, our personal data like email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and even passcodes are becoming ever more vulnerable to theft or Colorful Grills, Posh Pizza Ovens Make Outdoor Kitchens Perfect Hangouts 04/17/2024 08:00pm • Homeowners looking to amp up their backyard barbecues and sophisticated pizza parties will find the latest outdoor kitchen trends offer everything from warming drawers to smart, high-tech cooking solutions to a rainbow of colors to personalize every grill or beverage station. The growing sophisticat Who owns businesses in California? A lawmaker wants the public to know 04/17/2024 07:21pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on opaque ownership structures that have enabled some companies to skirt state laws without facing consequences. Limited liability co Columbia's president rebuts claims she has allowed the university to become a hotbed of antisemitism 04/17/2024 05:36pm • WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) ��� Columbia University���s president took a firm stance against antisemitism in a congressional hearing on Wednesday, but she faced bruising criticism from Republicans who say her actions haven���t supported her words, especially when it comes to disciplining faculty and stude Olympic champion Suni Lee back in form after debilitating kidney ailment 04/17/2024 12:41pm • Olympic gymnastics all-around champion Suni Lee revealed that at the height of dealing with a kidney disease last year, she questioned whether a return to top form was even possible. ���My motivation started to fall,��� Lee said this week at the Team USA media summit. ���I could not bend my legs the PepsiCo recalls sugar-free Schweppes Ginger Ale for containing 'full sugar' 04/17/2024 06:00am • (NEW YORK) -- PepsiCo Inc has initiated a voluntary recall of some sugar-free and caffeine-free Schweppes Ginger Ale products because they contain "full sugar," according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said in a report earlier this month that the company voluntarily issued th Fairfax Co. students use AI to create an algorithm for classifying brain signals 04/16/2024 10:45pm • About seven months ago, Chantilly High School student Gautham Ramachandran came across a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk. Ramachandran said he was inspired by the man who was navigating life without his legs. Ramachandran approached him, and they exchanged pleasantries. In the days that fo Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist 04/16/2024 08:56pm • SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. When the Democ Black immigrant rally in NYC raises awareness about racial, religious and language inequities 04/16/2024 07:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Black immigrants turned out in the hundreds on Tuesday across from New York City Hall during a hearing about racial inequities in the city's shelter and immigrant support systems. Over 1,500 immigrants, mostly from Guinea, assembled in City Hall Park, after it became clear that onl The Paris Games' grandiose opening ceremony is being squeezed by security and transport issues 04/16/2024 07:50am • PARIS (AP) ��� The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds. But behind the romantic veneer that Paris has long curated, mounting security conc Indiana limits abortion data for privacy under near-total ban, but some GOP candidates push back 04/16/2024 12:12am • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Indiana allows so few abortions that health officials stopped releasing individual reports to protect patient privacy ��� a move some Republicans are now fighting to reverse. The Republicans, including prominent candidates for office this year, want access to reports detailing