NEWS A Brooklyn day care owner admitted bribing Medicaid patients to enroll, then billing for services that were never actually provided to them. A New Jersey woman and her boyfriend in Colombia were convicted after a fake transit company tried to collect thirteen million dollars meant for elderly and disabled riders. A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for 43 million privacy violations, and the state is now asking a judge to fine the company up to $40 billion. View All News Topics FAMILY How We Can Teach Our Sons to Speak Up When Something Feels Wrong—even When It’s Hard Even partly out of the water, a recalled camping shower’s heater can burst into flame, the manufacturer now admits. Floor lamps are being pulled from homes after their own wiring was found capable of sparking and catching fire, with more than four thousand units affected. View All Family Topics FRIENDS The Outdoor Hosting Trick That Makes Any Backyard Feel More Inviting—Without Buying All New Furniture The Backyard Makeover That Doesn’t Require a Huge Budget: Small Changes That Can Transform Your Outdoor Space A new Pew survey finds rural Americans are far more likely than city dwellers to see their social groups meet in person instead of online View All Friends Topics FAITH Years of wrestling with doubt ended at Princeton, where a philosophy student says prayer and the physics of fine-tuning led him into the Catholic Church. Requests for exorcisms have climbed sharply over five years in the Pittsburgh diocese, and the trainer fielding them traces some of it back to Ouija boards. A California diocese expected a dozen couples to renew their vows in the church and ended up with more than a hundred asking to come. View All Faith Topics FASHION Turnaround experience from Nike is now steering David’s Bridal’s finances, after the bridal chain hired a new chief financial officer this week. A familiar kids’ clothing chain has now borrowed from its own controlling shareholder four times this year just to keep operating. Nike told employees the turnaround it promised for this year still has no finish line, and more layoffs are coming. View All Fashion Topics FOOD A milk warning is missing from thousands of loaves of Hawaiian sweet bread, a problem for anyone in the house with a dairy allergy. Stewart’s pulled two half-gallon ice cream flavors from stores in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire after a customer found metal inside. Testing turned up salmonella inside broccoli-sprouting seeds sold nationwide on Amazon, and the entire eight-ounce lot is being recalled. View All Food Topics FINANCE See More Regulators say a martial arts franchise chain promised new owners earnings it never intended to deliver, and now owes nearly two million dollars to settle the claim. Investment advisers ran their entire crypto and AI fraud scheme through private WhatsApp groups, regulators say, and investors are now out millions of dollars. Banks Are Rolling Out New Tools to Help Customers Tell Whether a Call or Text Really Came From Them—Why “Spoofing” Scams Are Becoming Harder for Families to Recognize ABC7 Chicago — Bank Anti-Spoofing Technology View All Finance Topics FITNESS How Little Exercise Do You Really Need to Build Muscle? The Answer May Surprise You A new ten-million-dollar federal challenge is offering schools cash prizes and equipment credits just for getting students moving again. A survey of more than six hundred gym and studio owners found most are growing even as costs and competition rise around them. View All Fitness Topics
