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(WJET/WFXP) – A Pennsylvania woman lost over $50,000 from a Facebook scam. According to a report, the victim transferred $35,000 from a retirement bank account to an unknown suspect posing as “Matthew West” whom she contacted through Facebook in October 2024. Then on Jan. 9, 2025, she transferred an additional $15,000 from a joint PNC bank account into a Bitcoin account. The suspect also convinced the woman to give her account password and username for the Bitcoin account, which the suspect used to transfer the money to an unknown private wallet. In total, the victim lost $50,155. No other details were…

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Musk told employees about the controversial social network’s financial struggles earlier this month, as US banks look to find buyers for the company’s mammoth debt pile. This article was originally published by a www.pcmag.com . Read the Original article here. .

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — At the end of his Sunday service, the pastor of the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Ohio, asked ushers and musicians to form a circle around him as he knelt in prayer, flanked by the flags of Haiti and the United States.Many had come to receive his blessing and hear his guidance on how to deal with federal agents in case of raids stemming from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration. Other congregants stayed home out of fear and growing uncertainty.“I asked God to protect my people,” the Rev. Reginald Silencieux said after the service, reflecting…

White House says Israel, Lebanon have agreed to extend truce until Feb. 18, giving Israeli troops more time to withdraw. This article was originally published by a www.yahoo.com . Read the Original article here. .

The ‘75 Hard Challenge’, designed by bodybuilder and motivational speaker Andy Frisella, has gained significant traction in recent months as a supposed ‘mental toughness’ program. The strict regimen includes following a clean diet, drinking a gallon of water daily, working out twice a day (one session outdoors), reading 10 pages of nonfiction, and taking daily progress photos. While many participants have celebrated their physical and mental transformations, the challenge has come under fire — particularly from women — for being unrealistic, unsustainable, and potentially harmful. Renowned Pilates instructor and nutritionist Radhika Karle, known for her practical and holistic approach to…

National Non-Smoking Week – which began Jan. 19 and ends Saturday, Jan. 25 — billed as a time to raise awareness and to help people get started on a quit journey that works for them Alberta Health Services (AHS) officials have spent the past week promoting resources available to Albertans to quit smoking or vaping for good. National Non-Smoking Week – which began Jan. 19 and ends Saturday, Jan. 25 — is billed as a time to raise awareness of the benefits of quitting smoking and vaping and to help people get started on a quit journey that works for…

Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media analyst, recently tweeted that “fact-check” had become a dirty word. Stelter’s assessment followed Meta’s announcement that it would scrap its fact-checking processes—once central to the post-2016 response to the proliferation of so-called fake news. Now, with Donald Trump preparing for a second term, many former critics of fake news have curiously dropped their concerns over disinformation and aligned with him. This shift exposes Big Tech and legacy media’s anti-fake-news campaigns as, at best, PR fluff, and at worst, efforts to outright silence dissent.  These fake news flip-floppers include a self-described Democrat, Elon Musk, who endorsed…

Washington — Rep. Mike Turner, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that TikTok “remains a national security threat” despite President Trump’s effort to maintain access to the popular video-sharing app in recent days.”Let’s be clear. Tiktok is absolutely a national security threat,” Turner said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” TikTok briefly shut down services in the U.S. last week facing a divestment deadline for its China-based parent company, ByteDance. But within hours, TikTok began restoring service to users when Mr. Trump vowed to intervene. And on Monday, the newly sworn-in president signed an executive order…