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FTC warning: Be careful how you pay bills online 05/17/2024 08:24pm • The next time you pay a medical, utility or other bill online — think twice. The Federal Trade Commission said it may be an impersonator tricking you into paying them. It said doxo, which is a third-party vendor, did that to many people who used the website. The FTC sued the company for They were treating waves of wounded in Gaza. Then an Israeli assault trapped the foreign doctors 05/17/2024 07:32pm • CAIRO (AP) — The 35 American and other international doctors came to Gaza in volunteer teams to help one of the territory’s few hospitals still functioning. They brought suitcases full of medical supplies and had trained for one of the worst war zones in the world. They knew the health care syst Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the Black airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy 05/17/2024 06:47pm • STONECREST, Ga. (AP) — Hundreds of Air Force members in dress blues joined Roger Fortson's family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's dep Dabney Coleman, actor who specialized in curmudgeons, dies at 92 05/17/2024 06:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. He was 92. Coleman died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his daughter, Quincy Coleman, said in a statement Fall trial set for pharmacist in 11 Michigan meningitis deaths after plea deal talks fizzle 05/17/2024 05:12pm • HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A judge set a fall trial Friday for a pharmacist charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents who died in a 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroids from a Massachusetts lab. Efforts by Glenn Chin and state prosecutors to reach a ple Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made a movie about it 05/17/2024 02:49pm • CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization. “If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.” The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a centur Vindicated by Supreme Court, CFPB director says bureau will add staff, consider new rules on banks 05/17/2024 02:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits and political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government's aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all. Those challenges ca Stock market today: Asian shares retreat after Wall St edges back from records 05/16/2024 11:44pm • Asian shares retreated on Friday after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights, though the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly topped 40,000 for the first time. U.S. futures fell and oil prices edged higher. Chinese stocks were little changed after officials in Beijing reported persistin Watchdog: EPA's lead pipe fix sent about $3 billion to states based on unverified data 05/16/2024 11:07pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data, according to an agency inspector general's memo, likely meaning some states got too much money and others got too little. Investigators foun Montgomery Co. Council votes to add $26.3M to schools in $7.1B budget plan 05/16/2024 11:00pm • Without raising taxes, the Montgomery County Council voted to add $26.3 million dollars to the Maryland county executive's proposed budget plan for FY2025. While the 11-member council was able to reach a consensus in its "straw" vote — the action before next week's final decision — some conce Maryland governor signs bills to tighten juvenile justice, expand gun safety measures 05/16/2024 08:42pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed a juvenile justice reform bill Thursday that makes younger juveniles subject to state oversight in criminal cases, a move supporters said will combine accountability and rehabilitation to the benefit of children. “It really comes down to facing facts: Children in the s The Citi Premier® Card Gets a Rebrand -- and New Travel Benefits 05/16/2024 08:00pm • Citi announced this week that its mid-tier travel card, the Citi Premier® Card, has a new name, a boosted welcome bonus and added travel benefits. This is good news for current cardholders whose accounts will seamlessly change over and makes the card more competitive for prospective card shoppers l CFPB Attempts to Cap Credit Card Late Payment Fees at $8 05/16/2024 08:00pm • In March, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a rule capping credit card late payments at $8. To close what the CFPB calls "a 2010 loophole exploited by credit card giants," the rule is intended to curb high fees that can negatively affect consumers. The CFPB estimates the new cap will s Can You Get a Wooden Credit Card? 05/16/2024 08:00pm • Plastic and credit cards are practically synonymous -- as in, "I was short on cash, so I whipped out my plastic and bought it." In fact, researchers estimate that there are over 26 billion plastic credit cards in circulation today, the majority of which are made from first-use "virgin" plastics lik How to Access Your Home's Equity 05/16/2024 08:00pm • Home equity values have soared in recent years, offering homeowners the opportunity to access cash from their homes. According to a May 2024 report from real estate data company ICE Mortgage Technology, 48 million U.S. homeowners with mortgages have tappable equity of $206,000 per borrower, up from