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'They have a lot of money to end up losing': Why criminals are choosing to commit gold bar scams 07/26/2024 02:43pm • The growing trend of gold bar scams raises questions, such as "What's in it for the crook?" And "How does it work?" Such scams have tricked more than a dozen people in Montgomery County, Maryland, alone, leading to losses topping $1 million in some cases. The scheme involves tricking victims into Vietnam Communist Party chief's funeral draws thousands of mourners, including world leaders 07/26/2024 05:58am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Thousands of mourners gathered in Hanoi on Friday for the second day of the funeral of the man who dominated Vietnamese politics for over a decade, Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. His death, at 80, last week in Hanoi marked the start of a succession strugg Secret DEA files show agents joked about rape in a WhatsApp chat. Then one of them was accused of it 07/25/2024 10:59pm • MIAMI (AP) — In a WhatsApp chat that quickly devolved into depravity, a group of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents boasted about their “world debauchery tour” of “boozing and whoring” on the government’s dime. They swapped lurid images of their latest sexual conquests. And at o Wind farms' benefits to communities can be slow or complex, leading to opposition and misinformation 07/25/2024 11:04am • After NextEra proposed a wind farm in Greeley County, Nebraska two years ago, Robert Bernt, a dairy farm owner in the area, helped to mobilize community members against the idea. His group held town hall meetings and ran ads on the radio, arguing the wind farm would “fragment” the community, by Takeaways from AP's investigation into DEA corruption, agent accused of rape 07/25/2024 10:39am • MIAMI (AP) — Thousands of secret law enforcement documents obtained by The Associated Press offer a never-before-seen window into a culture of corruption among U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents who parlayed the agency's shadowy money laundering operations into a worldwide pursuit of bing Highest-Paid CEOs: Do Stock Returns Justify Ballooning Pay? 07/24/2024 08:00pm • Executive pay has become a hot topic thanks in part to the widening pay gap between CEOs and average workers. The world's highest-paid CEOs would argue that their leadership skills help generate big returns for investors, justifying their large paychecks, but critics of swelling CEO compensation pac Review: ‘Presumed Innocent’ drops finale on Apple TV+ with fresh twists to classic courtroom drama 07/24/2024 02:40pm • In 1990, Harrison Ford had just wrapped his original trilogy as the heroic Indiana Jones when he decided to shift into a more duplicitous character in the twisty legal thriller “Presumed Innocent," a smash hit directed by the great Alan J. Pakula who bridged Ford's evolution of tangled husband The History of Bitcoin 07/23/2024 08:00pm • Bitcoin (BTC) was the first cryptocurrency created and is now the most valuable and well known. While the idea of cryptocurrency has been around for over 40 years, Bitcoin made it a reality in 2009 and its 15-year trading history has been an exhilarating ride. Fueled by increasing interest from youn Vietnam Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, the country's most powerful leader, dies at age 80 07/19/2024 07:23pm • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health, official media said Friday. He was 80. “General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Nguyen Phu Trong Maryland board approves $148M in cuts to help support Medicaid, child care 07/18/2024 05:20am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland board approved $148.3 million in state spending reductions on Wednesday to balance the budget while directing more money to pay for child care and Medicaid — two priorities that Democratic Gov. Wes Moore's administration hopes will help improve a stagnant state e 2024 Election Latest: Biden contracts COVID-19, Vance speaks at RNC 07/17/2024 11:35pm • The third day of the Republican National Convention shifted its focus to issues of national security and foreign policy. Republicans are focusing on Democratic President Joe Biden’s handling of the ongoing crises in Europe and the Middle East. Former Trump administration officials have also taken Forex Trading for Beginners: How to Trade Currency and Avoid Forex Scams 07/17/2024 08:00pm • Foreign exchange trading, or forex, is full of both opportunity and danger for investors. Due to significant geopolitical uncertainty, this could be a very opportune time to trade currencies. However, as the promise of forex trading grows, so, too, does the volume of scams designed to steal money fr 13 Items That Sell on eBay, Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace 07/14/2024 08:00pm • If you have items to unload, you could hold a garage sale. But that involves setting aside days to sort and price items, not to mention the time needed to man the sale itself. Then, there is no guarantee that people will show up or buy anything. A better way to sell off your clutter may be to use on These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them 07/12/2024 05:25am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headline Political ads on social media rife with misinformation and scams, new research finds 07/10/2024 09:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The online advertisement to Donald Trump supporters was clear enough: Click here, and receive a free Trump 2024 flag and a commemorative coin. All in exchange for taking a quick survey and providing a credit card number for the $5 shipping and handling. “You’ll get two free g