Amount of fraud in UK more than doubled to £2.3bn in 2023, report finds | Scams
The report says the value of fraud committed in the UK will more than double to £2.3bn in 2023, making it the second richest year in 20 years. The report also warns of the future impact of fraudsters using artificial intelligence. deceive consumers. According to accountancy firm BDO’s latest FraudTrack report, the number of reported […]
California K-9 finds pounds of meth hidden in dog treat boxes during traffic stop: police
A K-9 in California discovered several pounds of methamphetamine in an unlikely place: a box of dog treats. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office posted about the incident on Facebook on February 15th. The traffic stop occurred Tuesday when a sheriff’s deputy stopped a vehicle traveling in Petaluma. The car was being driven by Angelina Gutierrez, […]
Hundreds of rural hospitals are in danger of shutting down, study finds: ‘At risk of closure’
Hundreds of hospitals in rural America are at risk of closure, according to new data from Chartis, Chicago. health care Advisory service company. A total of 141 local hospitals have closed since 2010, and an additional 453 are “at risk of closure,” according to a press release. The seven states with the most hospitals most […]
Why Putin finds himself in a much stronger position than the West believes
Like Alexei Navalny, the undisputed leader of Russia’s opposition. He died Friday in an Arctic prison., most commentators argued that Vladimir Putin’s government had lost its last vestiges of credibility. Dozens of Western leaders placed full responsibility for his death in the Kremlin, but President Biden said:considering numerous options” in response to this brutal human […]
New York judge finds Michael Cohen’s testimony ‘credible’ in Trump civil fraud trial
Judge Arthur Engoron said Michael Cohen’s testimony in former President Trump’s New York civil fraud trial was “credible” despite the perjury charge. “Michael Cohen was a material witness on behalf of the plaintiffs, but he was not the material witness that the defendants tried to portray him to be,” Engoron said in his 92-page verdict, […]
Ancient man migrated to Denmark before being clubbed to death, new research finds
New research by a team of Scandinavian archaeologists sheds light on a man who died a violent death in a region of northwest Denmark more than 5,000 years ago. The Wittlap Man was first discovered in a peat bog in northern Denmark in 1915. It was clear that his body had been struck at least […]
US study finds more people die smoking drugs like fentanyl than injecting them
Smoking has surpassed injecting drugs as the most common method of drug overdose deaths in the United States, a new government study suggests. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the study published Thursday the largest study to examine how Americans ingested the drugs that led to their deaths. CDC officials decided to […]
U.S. Federal Prisons Failed To Stop Almost 200 Deaths By Suicide, DOJ Watchdog Finds
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) OAN’s James Myers10:16am – Thursday, February 15, 2024 The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to prevent 187 inmate suicides over an eight-year period, according to a report published by an insider at the Justice Department’s watchdog agency. advertisement On Thursday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz blamed the deaths on BOP’s […]
An Inspector General report finds the Bureau of Prisons violated policies and contributed to inmate suicides
A damning report by the Justice Department’s inspector general finds that “repeated policy violations and operational failures are contributing to inmate suicides” at federal prisons. The report looked at the period from 2014 to 2021 and found that just over half of the 344 deaths investigated were due to suicide. The report was prompted in […]
Cervical cancer deaths could be reduced with home HPV testing, study finds
A push for more accessible HPV testing is underway. A new program led by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) called the SHIP Testing Network is exploring self-collection human papillomavirus (HPV) testing to prevent cervical cancer, according to a press release. The Last Mile Initiative, announced by NCI Director Dr. Kimrin Rathmell at the White House […]