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KUALA LUMPUR: A man was duped by a fake Facebook Marketplace posting after discovering that the money he paid had been transferred to accounts unrelated to the purported seller. Wangsa Maju OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Lazim Ismail said in a statement on Sunday (March 15) that the victim told police he had come across an advertisement for a motorcycle on March 12. He then communicated with the seller and made payments into two separate bank accounts before being instructed to meet in person to finalise the deal. "However, when the complainant intended to take the motorcycle home, the seller claimed he had not received any payment, stating that the accounts which received the funds were unrelated and unknown to him. The complainant suffered a loss of RM2,450," he said. He added that the motorcycle's seller has also filed a police report. "The case is being investigated under Section 420 of the Penal Code, and investigations are ongoing," he said.  » Read More

“Who the hell are you? I don’t recognise you as my mother.” Diane’s son Jim stormed into her home on a Sunday morning. He had just learned that she was six months into a relationship with a fraudster who was claiming to be Sir David Attenborough. “You were ready to leave me!” he yelled. Jim had just discovered that Diane, a 74-year-old widow, had sent him almost half her life savings in the belief that she was supporting the 99-year-old broadcaster through health problems and legal trouble. After meeting him via a fake celebrity page on Facebook, she was preparing to sell her flat and send the money to a man she was convinced was her partner, who had been hinting at marriage and encouraging her to leave her home in Canada to join him in London. Diane and her son shared their story with The Independent, shedding light on the cruel psychological tactics of a growing criminal enterprise,  » Read More

Denzel Aberdeen scored 17 points, but Kentucky fell to top-seeded Florida 71-63 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament. Kentucky (21-13) got 14 points from Mo Dioubate and 10 from Otega Oweh. The Cats struggled offensively, making just 21 of 59 (35.6 percent) from the floor, including 5 of 23 (21.7 percent) from behind the arc. The Gators dominated the glass, grabbing 50 rebounds compared to just 29 for UK. Florida scored the first three points of the game before Malachi Moreno got the Cats on the board and within one. The Gators scored five in a row before Oweh scored to cut the deficit to 8-4. The Gators would score again to lead by six. Oweh connected to cut the deficit to 10-6, but Florida scored six in a row to build the lead to 16-6. Dioubate scored to cut the deficit to eight but Florida answered to lead 18-8. That’s when Dioubate brought the Cats back.  He hit two free throws and later hit two three-pointers,  » Read More

Washington, March 13, 2026 House Committee on Financial Services Chairman French Hill (AR-02) and Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Chairman Andy Barr (KY-06) issued the following statement in support of President Trump's Executive Order expanding access to mortgage credit:  “I commend President Trump’s Executive Order Promoting Access to Mortgage Credit. The President and his Administration have shown tremendous leadership in helping to ensure that community banks and credit unions can once again participate fully in the mortgage lending market and expand access to affordable home loans for American families. Since the enactment of Dodd-Frank, community banks and credit unions have increasingly scaled back their mortgage lending due to burdensome and complex regulatory requirements. Excessive and unnecessary HMDA data collection mandates, overly prescriptive Ability to Repay and Qualified Mortgages rules, restrictive capital requirements, needless supervisory restrictions on lending to homebuilders, and outdated appraisal requirements are clear examples of misguided Washington policies that have crippled our community lenders. That is why it is so important to recognize that strengthening community banks and credit unions– key providers of mortgages for many Americans – and expanding access to affordable housing are fundamentally connected.  » Read More

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans. Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive advocacy group called Medicare Advantage Majority, a data analysis by KFF Health News has found. The “dark money” group does not reveal its funders or much else — other than to say it is “dedicated to protecting and strengthening Medicare Advantage” and is “powered by hundreds of thousands of local advocates nationwide.” “Our campaign provides information and offers tools for concerned Americans to use to reach decision makers,” spokesperson Darren Grubb said in an email. The group has spent more than $3.1 million on hundreds of Facebook ads since September 2024, according to Facebook’s Ad Library, a database of the social media company’s online ads. Email Sign-Up Subscribe to KFF Health News' free weekly newsletter,  » Read More

Updated March 12, 2026, 4:56 p.m. ET The metro Detroit synagogue and school at the center of a reported attack on Thursday, March 12 issued a statement on social media just hours after the incident took place. All of Temple Israel's 140 students, staff, teachers and security personnel were safe and accounted for, according to the post on Facebook from the West Bloomfield temple.  » Read More

We're pausing our coverage - here's a recap That's it for our live coverage today on the war in Ukraine. Scroll down below to catch up on today's developments. Before we go, here's a summary of some of the day's main stories: Ukraine hit a missile components plant in Bryansk, according to Kyiv; The attack, said to have been carried out with British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles, prompted Moscow to condemn the UK for what it described as a "terrorist attack" that killed civilians; Hungary said it is sending a fact-finding mission to Ukraine to investigate problems with the Druzhba pipeline  - although Kyiv said members of the mission have no legal basis; Zelenskyy said Russia could send troops to Iran - a claim met with scepticism from analysts - but a Western intelligence source said Moscow is providing advanced technical guidance to Tehran on the use of drones; Both Ukraine and Russia claimed to have made advances on the battlefield. Three hurt in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian region,  » Read More

Rt. 641 closure scheduled March 16–20 to complete bridge construction CULPEPER — The Virginia Department of Transportation will temporarily close Route 641 (Weaver Hollow Road) at the bridge over Leathers Run in Madison County from Monday, March 16 through Friday, March 20 to allow crews to complete bridge construction work. During this time, Route 641 will be closed to through traffic in the work area. Motorists should plan to use alternate routes to travel around the closure. All work is weather permitting. Drivers are encouraged to slow down, use caution near the work zone, and follow posted signs when traveling through the area. Local updates about conditions in VDOT’s Culpeper District are posted to X.com/VaDOTCulp and the Culpeper District Facebook group page. Current traffic conditions, VDOT’s statewide network of traffic cameras and other travel information is on the 511Virginia website. That information is also available on the free VDOT 511 mobile app or by calling 511 from any phone in Virginia. VDOT’s Culpeper District includes the counties of Albemarle,  » Read More

Current section Israel News Israel Political News Social Equality Minister May Golan, under investigation for alleged misuse of public funds, flew to New York for UN Women's Day, calling the trip a 'political necessity' despite wartime emergency guidelines and widespread flight cancellations. Many of her predecessors attended virtually or not at all Share to Facebook Share to X Article printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free format Subscribe Comments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading format Subscribe Yifat Reuven and Tali Heruti-Sover 10:26 PM • March 10 2026 IST The Israeli government's exceptions committee, recently established to determine who may board a plane departing the country during wartime, this week also dealt with Likud Social Equality Minister May Golan's request to attend the Women's Day events at the United Nations building in New York over the last few days.  » Read More

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