DHS & FBI focus resources on Minnesota child care fraud investigationThe FBI and the Department of Homeland Security say they are surging resources into Minnesota to investigate allegations of fraud there, including at child care centers, days after YouTube content creator Nick Shirley, who has created anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim videos in the past, posted a viral video in which he claimed to find widespread fraud at Somali-run child care centers. CNN's Holmes Lybrand reports.
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New cryptocurrency scam warning ahead of 2026 The FBI is warning about the growing threat of bitcoin ATM scams that they say have already cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars.
Beyoncé is now part of the 10-figure crowd, joining the elite number of musicians who are billionaires, according to Forbes Magazine. The megastar is only the fifth musician to make the Forbes billionaires list, where she reigns with her husband Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Bruce Springsteen. Forbes reported Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter tour was the highest-grossing of 2025, raking in $400 million in ticket sales, and another $50 million in merch. The year also saw Beyoncé win album of the year for “Cowboy Carter” after being up for the category four times earlier. The album saw her reference Alabama and her father Mathew Knowles’ hometown of Gadsden.
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New video shows Texas teen right when she went missing on Christmas Eve: Authorities Dash cam footage shows a woman matching Texas teen Camila Mendoza Olmos' description, walking near her home on the last day she was seen.
Tortillas sold in California are going to have a new ingredient, one that’s intended to help nurture infants. Starting Jan. 1, a new law will take effect requiring most tortillas and corn masa products sold in the state to contain folic acid, a vitamin that’s important to infant health. White women took the vitamin at a higher rate, with 46% of them reporting consuming folic acid, according to the California Department of Public Health. This puts Latinas at higher risk of having a baby born with neural tube defects — defects of the brain and spinal cord. Research has shown that folic acid can reduce birth defects by up to 70%.
The kind of lies that would’ve made Frank Sinatra want to knock out a palooka. For now let me tell you about one victim of President Trump’s mountain of lies whose brush with the administration defined our 2025. In 1991 as his Republican Party was launching an era of laws in California targeting illegal immigrants, Sinatra penned a Fourth of July essay for The Times opposing such hate. (Gary Coronado/For The Times)We spoke in front of the Home Depot where the June 7 protest happened, where Trump’s year of immigration lies went into overdrive. He now realizes speaking out against Trump’s lies is the only way to stop him for good.
Trump ‘encourages Putin to play him’ says former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine ABC News' Andrew Dymburt spoke with former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer about U.S., European and Ukrainian efforts at a peace deal that Russia seems to have little interest in agreeing to.
How an Olympian became a fugitiveThe FBI has released images of a motorcycle collection worth approximately $40 million that they believe belongs to Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder who is now on the FBI's most wanted list. Here's how he became a fugitive.
Will snow flurries mix with confetti at midnight in Times Square on New Year's Eve? The Great Lakes are buried under more than half a foot of snow as bone-chilling temperatures head to the Northeast.
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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you keep up with the latest music. NYT Strands hint for today’s theme: 2025 Top TwentyThe words are related to music. NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal? Today's NYT Strands spangram is diagonal. NYT Strands spangram answer todayToday's spangram is Hit Songs.
Which brings us to the interesting case of OpenAI, a company born in virtue that has become great by selling its soul. The pattern has been unmistakable: whenever user safety and growth come into conflict, growth wins. Their original sin was optimizing user engagement, a euphemism for maximizing time used, return visits, and, ultimately, revenue. Five companies (Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google/Alphabet, and Amazon) constitute 30 percent of the entire wealth of the S&P 500. What OpenAI did when CHATGPT users lost touch with reality.
