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Scams on payment apps like Zelle are getting so out of hand that federal authorities are starting to investigate.This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched an investigation into JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo — all part owners of Zelle — after Sen. Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter to the agency.The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that reimbursements from the three banks for transactions that Zelle users disputed fell from 62% in 2019 to 38% in 2023, Blumenthal said in the letter."PSI's investigation of the three banks indicates that they provide their respective employees with broad…

Russia's economic growth slowed to 4% in the second quarter of 2024, down from 5.4% in Q1, AFP reported, citing official data released on Friday.While the Russian economy continues to expand, it marked the lowest quarterly GDP growth result since the beginning of 2023, the report said.It comes as the Kremlin battles rising inflation and warnings that the economy is overheating.Russia's economic growth has come off the back of huge Kremlin spending on its military campaign in Ukraine, which it launched in February 2022.While that spending helped quell earlier predictions of an imminent recession linked to Western sanctions, it has…

When I turned 66 in May, I was relieved to receive Medicare and had a long list of routine appointments I wanted to plow through. When a yearly mammogram showed something suspicious and turned out to be breast cancer, my world was instantly changed.I heard the news over the phone on my way home from the city, sitting between strangers on the train to Saratoga.The news startled me. I'd talked myself into thinking it was a "false positive" — even though we'd lost many members of the family to the disease.Thus began a six-month calendar of a lumpectomy, surgery, recovery,…

A controversial statue of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe in Palm Springs is set to be moved after causing uproar among locals and visitors.The statue has been a controversial topic since it was returned to Palm Springs in 2021, with some locals arguing that it was inappropriate and sexist.Following complaints and a lawsuit against the city, the statue will be relocated to another spot within the boundaries of Downtown Park, the Los Angeles Times reported.The statue is currently at the edge of the park, next to the Palm Springs Art Museum. Tourists regularly take photos in front of the Marilyn Monroe…

Employees are taking a stand against corporate drudgery through a slate of viral workplace trends.Kohei Hara / Getty Images It seems like every day there's a new workplace trend employees are using to set boundaries at work or climb the ranks. Enter "hushed hybrid," "quiet vacationing," and poking fun at the "corporate accent." Check out these and other viral work trends — and what experts have to say about them. Employees are pushing back against the grueling demands of modern work through a host of workplace trends.We've seen "rage applying." And who could forget "lazy girl jobs" or having "Bare…

The back-to-school shopping season might be winding down, but the demand for kids clothes is still going strong.This is especially true at Target, where the company's Cat & Jack brand has been one of the standout success stories of the retailer's owned-brand merchandising strategy.Within just two years of its launch in 2016, Cat & Jack sales boomed to more than $2 billion, and the brand now brings in more than $3 billion annually for Target.Beyond the $4 T-shirts and $8 jeans and dresses, one thing that some parents have come to love about the brand is Target's one-year satisfaction guarantee…

In late July, Ukraine said it had struck a Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber at Olenya airbase in Murmansk, a record-breaking 1,100 miles inside Russian territory.While the news grabbed headlines, it was not the first time that Ukraine has reportedly targeted sites deep within Russia.And in May, Ukraine's Security Service said a long-range Ukrainian drone struck a Gazprom oil refinery roughly 930 miles away in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.Ukraine does not currently have permission to use long-range guided weapons such as the ATACMS to hit such targets inside Russia.It has instead made use of cheap, domestically-produced drones for long-range attacks,…