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Getting calls about a loan application you never applied for? Here's what to do, according to an expert 08/23/2025 05:36am • It���s a tale as old as the first tricky scheme ��� whatever that was long before any of us had cellphones. But there are ways to make sure you don���t fall victim to one present-day trick. ���According to the Federal Trade Commission, people all across the country are getting calls and calls and Emma Raducanu has struggled at the US Open since she won it. She now looks primed to end the drought 08/22/2025 05:41pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Emma Raducanu won the U.S. Open at age 18 in 2021, becoming the first qualifier in history to win a Grand Slam title. Since then, she hasn���t won a match in New York. It hasn���t been the outcome many would have expected. But this year, back again at the location of her shot to st Coco Gauff hires Aryna Sabalenka's former serving coach, Gavin MacMillan, before the US Open 08/22/2025 04:26pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Coco Gauff was as aware as anyone, of course, that her tour-worst double-fault total is a significant problem, so she fired one of her coaches on the eve of the U.S. Open and brought aboard the serve doctor who helped No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka work on her issues with that part o Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested on allegations of misusing state funds 08/22/2025 03:06pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Police in Sri Lanka arrested former President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday over allegations that the senior opposition politician misused public funds during his presidency, police said. Wickremesinghe, who was president from 2022 to 2024, is accused of using the funds California Gov. Gavin Newsom's national profile soars with latest Trump fight, but there are risks 08/22/2025 02:21pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Gavin Newsom is having a moment. In the national struggle over U.S. House control, perhaps no politician has more at stake than the California governor, who has emerged as the leading Democratic adversary to President Donald Trump in what many see as a lightly masked trial run f Giants' Jaxson Dart clears concussion protocol after taking a hit in preseason game vs. Patriots 08/22/2025 12:10am • EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) ��� Jaxson Dart took a big hit at the end of a run that resulted in a fumble, went down to the ground and wanted to stay in the New York Giants' preseason finale. Instead, he was escorted to the sideline to get evaluated for a concussion. ���I���ve never been taken out of California parole board denies release for Erik Menendez due to misbehavior in prison 08/21/2025 11:06pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday by a California board that said his continued misbehavior during decades in prison for murdering his parents with his older brother in 1989 showed he is still a risk to public safety. 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