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Credit card skimmers are on the rise nationwide and they're targeting the country's most financially vulnerable people.The FBI estimates that card skimming costs consumers and banks around $1 billion each year. Last year, Fair, Isaac and Company, a financial data analytics firm, found that debit card skimming grew by a whopping 96% compared to the previous year.Last month, the federal agents from the Secret Service swept through 472 business in Florida after reports of increased EBT scam fraud, WJXT reported. Police found 13 devices statewide. The Secret Service estimated that police prevented around $1.3 million of losses through the operations,…

Sophia Bera Daigle, the founder and principal financial planner at Gen Y Planning, said one of her clients, a doctor, has been gifted $10,000 a year from his parents for the past few years.Recently, the client's parents told him they were going to up that amount — to $60,000 a year for the next 10 years — but that would be it."'We would rather give it to you and your two siblings while you have kids at home and need to pay for college and all of these things, but then don't expect any inheritance,'" Daigle said the parents basically…

Protesters swarmed the streets of Barcelona to condemn mass tourism, which they blame for skyrocketing rent prices and the city becoming "unliveable."Multiple outlets reported that thousands of protesters, including more than 150 organizations, marched through Barcelona on Saturday.Photos showed protesters carrying signs that read, "Barcelona is not for sale" and "Tourists go home." Protesters in Barcelona used water guns on tourists. Europa Press News/Getty Images Footage obtained by BBC showed protesters using water guns against people visiting popular tourist areas while chanting, "Go home!"Protesters also taped off certain restaurants and hotels as if to symbolically close the establishments.Barcelona is a…

Russian forces appear to be fashioning improvised artillery guns from the main armaments of old BMP-1 armored fighting vehicles.One video circulating on social media shows a soldier firing what appears to be a BMP-1's 73 mm 2A28 Grom gun fixed to a makeshift wheelbase. Another video shows a group of soldiers towing the improvised gun into position.The crude device may reflect the heavy equipment losses Russia has suffered in its invasion of Ukraine.The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Sunday that Russia had lost 14,937 artillery systems and 15,645 armored fighting vehicles since it launched the full-scale invasion…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeronimo Noriega, a 27-year-old student who lives in Spain. It's been edited for length and clarity.I moved to Oviedo, Asturias in Northwest Spain after growing up in San Antonio and I don't think I'll ever move back to the United States.If that shocks you, it surprised me too. I never thought I'd live in Europe — I'd never even been there before my siblings and I agreed to move to Spain with my parents. Although I was born in Mexico, I spent most of my life living in the US so…