Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, an FBI report says The FBI received more than 100,000 complaints by victims of scams over the age of 60 last year, with nearly 6,000 people losing more than $100,000. 05/4/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
Dance, dignity, human rights take center stage in City Heights performance Marcos Duran is a dancer and lecturer at San Diego City College and UC San Diego, and a recipient of a Far South/Border North artist grant for 2023-2024. His work, "Dancing With Dignity," is inspired ... 05/3/2024 - 3:25 pm | View Link
Huber Heights man who turned himself in to police in child sex case gets 8 years in prison A Huber Heights man who turned himself in to police after his wife caught him with child sexual assault material will spend eight years in prison. 05/3/2024 - 4:01 am | View Link
Franciscan Health hospitals name new CFO and vice president of medical affairs Ryan Misek, an emergency medical physician, was named Franciscan Health Crown Point’s new vice president of medical affairs. Earth Day: Stories of people, climate and hope ... 05/2/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
100-year-old building in the Heights to be transformed into a mixed-use project Radom Capital and Triten Real Estate Partners will transform a century-old historic refinery into a 60,000 SF office, retail, and restaurant space. 04/29/2024 - 8:44 am | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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