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Older Americans reportedly lost $1.1 billion to fraud in 2022, according to the annual Senate Committee on Aging report released this month, and most of the scams utilized AI technology to clone the voices of people they knew and other AI-generated ploys. During a Thursday committee hearing on AI scams, committee chairman Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., published the group’s annual fraud book highlighting the top scams last year. It found that from January 2020 to June 2021, the FBI found "individuals reportedly lost $13 million to grandparent and person-in-need scams." Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, also a member of the committee,...

... As the initial shock of the attack began to dissipate, a new problem became apparent. At least 125,000 Israelis were forced to leave their homes near Gaza and in the north, where cross-border strikes from Lebanese militants Hezbollah have become a daily ritual. Meanwhile, more than 360,000 army reservists were mobilised to fight as Israel carries out a ground campaign in Gaza, where the Hamas government says more than 12,300 people have been killed, most of them civilians. In a nation numbering only nine million, the reduction in the available labour force has had huge economic consequences. ... Over...

The city of Denver has spent millions of dollars in the last year transporting thousands of migrants to other parts of the country, officials confirmed this week. CBS News first reported that Denver has spent nearly $4.5 million transporting more than 12,000 migrants out-of-state. A spokesperson for the city’s government confirmed the figures to Fox News Digital. "We provide migrant guests who wish to stay in Denver with shelter and support. However, we also understand that many individuals arriving in Denver from the southern border have other destinations in mind," the spokesperson said. "This is often because they have built-in...

Republicans swept the Louisiana attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer runoff races Saturday, giving the GOP a monopoly on all statewide races in the state. Early results projected landslide wins by all of the Republicans. Liz Murrill will be Louisiana's first woman to serve as attorney general, while Nancy Landry won the secretary of state's office to become the state's chief elections officer and John Fleming will oversee the state bank as treasurer. All three are new to their offices. Murrill replaces her current boss Jeff Landry, a Republican who won the governor's race outright in the Oct. 14...

Just in case you were thinking of giving it a try, be warned: Nobody will be able to write a competent history of 20th-century American politics without absorbing the themes and revelations in the new book by Luke Nichter, The Year that Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. A history professor at Chapman University and the biographer of Henry Cabot Lodge, among others, Nichter is widely understood and rightly admired as a tireless researcher—though "tireless" doesn’t quite cover it: In his quest to transcribe most of the hopelessly garbled and obscure audio tapes left behind...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) released all the 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage. Immediately, the release blew apart the Jan. 6 Committee's narrative about the event. . The video release showed why they were likely suppressed. They included police escorting peaceful protesters walking through the Capitol, even shaking their hands. There was even a video showing one "protester" who appeared to have been cuffed, then taken to an area by the Capitol Police, where he was released and fist-bumped one of the officers. ... That raised many questions about whether the man released was an undercover officer, which then...

It was the announcement Senate Democrats were dreading. When it came, it appeared to strike a major blow to their hopes of holding their razor-thin Senate majority in the 2024 elections. "I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate," Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced earlier this month. Manchin, a moderate Democrat and former governor, won over 60% of the vote in his 2012 re-election, but his margin of victory fell to just three points in 2018. The consensus was...

SACRAMENTO – Saturday night's massive protest in Downtown Sacramento brought the California Democratic Convention to a standstill. More than 2,500 demonstrators flooded the streets, demanding Democratic leaders call for a cease-fire in Gaza. The protest originated as a sit-in demonstration inside the Safe Credit Union Convention Center building with about 200 people. However, it rapidly escalated, swelling to thousands as protestors called for democratic leaders to call for a cease-fire. Democratic leaders were in the midst of their party's convention, gearing up for next year's election as they decide who to support to fill the late Dianne Feinstein's seat. Sameena...

A Marine-turned-Navy SEAL operator is under investigation for having ties with extremist groups such as the Proud Boys after local reporters and activists, as well as major media outlets, revealed he attended many protests and events throughout Southern California. Chief Special Warfare Operator Bryce Henson is under investigation following allegations of "possibly participating with, or supporting, extremist causes," Nancy spokesman Cmdr. Ben Tisdale confirmed to Military.com.Henson rose to prominence over the past year while attending protests as well as school board and city council meetings, where he pushed anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric under a false name and often in the company of...

Some of the posts on this blog reposted to "Free Republic" I support FR regularly and hope... Well, here we are again an excursion into Media Excellence. The Truth Detector is in the room this week. Rush Limbaugh's family a family of lawyers connected to the Republican Party in Missouri. They were fighters for the GOP in parts near the Confederacy where Democrats were the "Hood and Sheets" party... I got a Candace Owens Theme Song... Meanwhile in Israel Jews get the January 6th treatment... And Joe Biden's Secretary of State Tony Blinken is riding Israel's... In the end if...

According to a security expert, the CIA is planning a palace coup against Zelensky.The assassinations of factional lieutenants are already a result of internal conflict within the Ukrainian government. CIA Director William Burns, according to international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda, would either order President Zelensky to step down or “tamp down” the civil war.According to a security expert, Washington’s spymaster has secretly flown to Ukraine to establish US dominance over the internal power struggles within the Kiev state.According to reports, Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, and CIA Director William Burns had “urgent and secret” discussions in Kiev...

A world-renowned vaccine expert has presented evidence during congressional testimony showing that pharmaceutical giant Moderna knows its Covid mRNA shots cause cancer. Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology, testified during a hearing on Capitol Hill led by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). During his testimony, Malone presented the patent for Moderna’s Covid vaccine. Moderna’s patent shows that its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain billions of DNA fragments. Those fragments, along with other contaminants, are linked to birth defects and cancer. In the patent, Moderna admits that contaminants in the shots cause cancer. However, as Malone highlights in...

After School Satan Clubs have been steadily increasing in popularity and are not likely to slow as their supporters rack up media attention and legal wins fighting for free speech.

More than 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 Capitol Police security video will be made public on a dedicated website starting immediately and ramping up in the coming months, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) announced on Nov. 17.However, individual video clips released to media or other requesters will have the faces of identifiable individuals blurred, a senior congressional aide told The Epoch Times. That restriction drew immediate fire from some Jan. 6 criminal case defendants.“So while we are significantly expanding the amount of clips that will be available and who can request them, we will be blurring faces with respect to...

A Bay Area photographer captured an unusual photo of San Francisco this week that reveals the amount of surveillance hovering over the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Ian Servin used his Sony A7 III mirrorless digital camera with a basic 50mm lens to document the swirling light trails from the numerous surveillance aircraft over APEC and the city. The composite is a stack of 150 images shot with 30-second exposure that he took from his apartment in Oakland. He then used Photoshop for the layering, applying the "lighter color" blending mode to create the final image. ”In terms of how many...

"And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. "And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. "And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? For there is...

The driver of a Sysco truck that struck and killed a five-year-old girl earlier this year will not face criminal charges, prosecutors have announced. Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker made the revelation Friday, a little more than six months after Sidney Olson was struck on the streets of small-town Massachusetts. The family is still pursuing civil charges against the driver, who hit the child as she was walking to an art class with a relative in Andover on May 9. Relatives said she had the 'walk' signal, but that the driver didn't see the child when he moved forward...

The investigation of the terrorist by the Nuh'ba force | The terrorist reveals in the investigation: "Hamas operatives place civilians on the roof of the house so that the IDF does not shell". New documentation from the investigation of one of the terrorists who carried out the massacre, shows how Hamas uses the residents of Gaza as a human shield • "Israel will see 20, 30 or 50 civilians - therefore it will not shell the house", he claimed • Former prosecutor Mandelblit explained how the death penalty could be imposed on The captured Noh'ba terrorists N12 | Published 20:46...

Polish trucking representatives said Thursday that they would expand a border protest against Ukraine by blocking another crossing for cargo vehicles over what they call unfair competition from the war-torn country. Kyiv had said earlier Thursday that it failed to reach an agreement in new talks with Polish transport companies that have been blocking cargo at three major border points for almost two weeks. The Polish truckers say the easing of EU access rules in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to an influx of unfair Ukrainian competition, taking a serious toll on their earnings. Kyiv has...

Taylor Swift has postponed a concert she was due to perform in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, after a fan died shortly before her show on Friday. The decision came as thousands of people were already at the stadium as part of her record-breaking Eras tour. Posting on Instagram, Swift said: "The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers and crew has to and always will come first." Brazil is experiencing an unprecedented heatwave, triggering health alerts. Authorities warned of the danger to life as temperatures in Rio reached 39.1C on Friday. The US pop star's show on Monday...