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Is This My Bank or a Scammer? Four Red Flags to Watch For 10/08/2025 08:00pm • Fraud continues to surge across the U.S., with criminals employing increasingly elaborate schemes to steal your savings. Consumers reported losing over $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a 25% increase from the previous year, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission. And criminals have incre Gold futures rise above $4,000 per ounce for the first time 10/07/2025 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gold futures soared above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time Tuesday, as many investors seek a safe place to park their money during the continuing U.S. government shutdown. The going price for New York spot gold had previously closed at $3,960.60 per troy ounce — the stand Protecting furloughed federal workers from getting scammed 10/07/2025 04:21am • While federal workers may be out on furlough as a result of the government shutdown, scammers are still on the job. "Whether it's a hurricane or even a federal government shutdown, (scammers) will take advantage of whatever happens in the news," Eric Friedman, director of the Montgomery County Of Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals 10/03/2025 11:28am • NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutdown to accelerate his goals of slashing the size of the federal workforce and puni Australian says he was improperly arrested in Thailand over his criticism of Malaysia 10/02/2025 11:04pm • BANGKOK (AP) — An Australian man arrested in Thailand on a defamation charge that he says originated with Malaysia's government said Thursday he is a victim of transnational repression, in which Southeast Asia countries cooperate in seizing dissidents or critics of third countries. Independent sch The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment 10/02/2025 08:56pm • President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats. Rather than simply furlough employees, as is usuall The government shuts down, and Trump goes online — very online 10/02/2025 02:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — On Thursday morning, as thousands of federal employees stayed home and faced potential layoffs because of the government shutdown, President Donald Trump got right to work on social media. He started by sharing praise from supporters. Then he falsely claimed that “DEMOCRATS WAN Montgomery Co. accountant sent to federal prison for $24 million COVID relief fraud scheme 10/02/2025 01:33pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, accountant has been sentenced to three years in federal prison, followed by six months of home confinement, for conspiring to commit wire fraud by submitting fraudulent loan applications for various COVID-19 relief benefits. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Ma How to Avoid Medicare Fraud 10/01/2025 08:00pm • Last year, Jean Bound received a package with COVID tests that she hadn't ordered. She called the company whose name was on the packing list to say she hadn't ordered them. In response, she was told not to worry, because Medicare had been billed and would be taking care of the cost. She immediately Hundreds of migrants mount protest in southern Mexico in bid to legalize status 10/01/2025 04:42pm • TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — A group of about 1,200 migrants set out walking before dawn in southern Mexico on Wednesday aiming for the capital where they hoped to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border. Cubans made up Gold prices soar to new records amid US government shutdown 10/01/2025 04:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government's first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights. The going price for New York spot gold hit a record $3,858.45 per troy ounce — the standard for measuring precious metals — as of market cl Is This the End of Paper Checks? 09/29/2025 08:00pm • The paper check has been bounced from the federal government. But how much longer will we pay with checks at all? As of Sept. 30, the Social Security Administration, IRS and other federal departments and agencies will no longer send or receive paper checks, with only a few rare exceptions. That mean China court sentences 11 members of Myanmar-based crime syndicate to death 09/29/2025 08:38am • BANGKOK (AP) — A court in China sentenced 11 people to death on Monday for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4 billion and for the deaths of disobedient workers. The Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentence How does June Squibb do it at age 95? 'I just gird my loins and go' 09/26/2025 11:12pm • TORONTO (AP) — There are 70-year-olds who want to be like June Squibb when they grow up. Squibb, 95, wasn’t the lead of a movie until she was 94. Now, a year after she turned action star in “Thelma,” Squibb is again the leading lady and face on the poster again, for “Eleanor the Great,” Trump moves toward deal to give US an equity stake in company developing Nevada lithium mine 09/26/2025 05:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world's largest lithium mines in northern Nevada, an official said. The Department of Energy and Lithium Americas, d