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Tips to make sure you give with your heart — and your head — this holiday season 11/22/2023 07:02pm • 'Tis the season for giving, but when helping your favorite charities, you’re encouraged to do your homework before opening up your wallet. Kevin Scally, chief relationship officer for Charity Navigator, a company which analyzes charities, said it's important to give intelligently. “You wan Regulators and law enforcement crack down on crypto's bad actors. Congress has yet to take action 11/22/2023 05:47pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — While the scandals in the cryptocurrency industry seem to never end, Washington policymakers appear to have little interest in pushing through legislation to codify the structure of the industry. The latest shoe to drop is Binance’s multibillion dollar settlement with U.S. auth How to spot 4 Social Security scams and protect your identity 11/22/2023 08:02am • When the Social Security Administration calls, you pick up. But between October 2022 and June 2023, more than 55,000 people who answered calls from what they thought was the government agency said they were scammed. Allegations of Social Security scams increased 61.7% in the quarters ending in June How to Pay Online Without a Credit Card 11/21/2023 07:00pm • Charging purchases to a credit card is the way U.S. consumers most commonly pay online. But there are several reasons you might not want to use a card when you buy something on the internet. Maybe you're concerned about incurring interest if you don't pay the card off right away or about keeping you Prosecutors investigate Bulgarian soccer federation president in the wake of violent protests 11/17/2023 01:16pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s chief prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into the country’s soccer management, with the focus on the actions of federation president Borislav Mihaylov. Bulgaria's prime minister also increased the pressure on Mihaylov by writing a letter to FIFA Presi An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion has surrendered to it 11/15/2023 11:06am • BANGKOK (AP) — A Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month against the military, a spokesperson for one of the groups said Wednesday. The surrender on Sunday of 261 people — 127 soldiers an The Great Grift: COVID-19 aid thieves bought fancy cars, a Pokemon card - even a private island 11/10/2023 10:44am • YANKEETOWN, Fla. (AP) — A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited patch of paradise about a mile off the coast of this little Gulf Coast town. Pelicans divebomb nearby into the cool waters of Florida's Withlacoochee Ba How to talk to older people in your life about scams 11/10/2023 05:12am • NEW YORK (AP) — This summer, Daniel Goldstein’s 86-year-old mom got an email that looked like it was from her bank. She was alarmed because she hadn’t spent the money it mentioned, so she called a help number on the email. The person on the other end of the line asked for her bank account info Data Doctors: 4 ways to get calendar spam 11/10/2023 04:56am • Q: How are spammers putting things in my calendar without my knowledge? A: Spammers and scammers are constantly on the prowl to find new ways to get to us and the open architecture of most calendar programs is a growing target. A standard known as iCal or iCalendar (not to be confused with App Myanmar's military chief says a major offensive by ethnic groups was funded by the drug trade 11/09/2023 08:40am • BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s military government has charged that a major offensive in the country’s northeast by an alliance of armed ethnic minority organizations was funded in part by profits earned by one of the groups from the region's lucrative drug trade, state-controlled media Cambodia deports 25 Japanese nationals suspected of operating online scams 11/08/2023 05:22am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Twenty-five Japanese nationals suspected of involvement in a cyberscam operation based in Cambodia were deported to Japan on Wednesday, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, a spokesperson for Cambodia's Interior Ministry. The Japanese government arranged a charter flight to transpo Linebacker Blake Martinez puts Pokemon trading card business on hold, returns to NFL with Panthers 11/07/2023 06:08pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Blake Martinez has put his embattled Pokemon trading card business on hold and is returning to the NFL. The 29-year-old linebacker has joined the Carolina Panthers practice squad and the team is hoping he can help offer some stability to a position that has been ravaged by i Trump's decades of testimony provide some clues about how he'll fight for his real estate empire 11/05/2023 07:23am • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump has testified in court as a football owner, casino builder and airline buyer. He bragged in a deposition that he saved “millions of lives” by deterring nuclear war as president. Another time, he fretted about the dangers of flung fruit. Conditioned by decades of tr Bankman-Fried's trial exposed crypto fraud but Congress has not been eager to regulate the industry 11/03/2023 08:15pm • PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — The conviction of former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors is the latest black mark for the cryptocurrency industry, but in Washington, there seems to be little to no interest in pushing through regulat Attorney says van der Sloot's confession about Natalee Holloway's murder was 'chilling' 11/02/2023 12:11am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Natalee Holloway's parents gathered in a room at an Alabama jail on Oct. 3 to watch the man long-suspected in their daughter's 2005 disappearance describe how he killed her. For three hours Joran van der Sloot was questioned — first by his own attorney and then by FBI ag