WASHINGTON—Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas faced calls from Republican colleagues to drop his re-election bid over an alleged affair with a staff member, after new text messages of a sexual nature ...

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Amazon Prime customers are the latest group of consumers to be targeted by scammers, cybersecurity experts say. According to a Feb. 4 X post from Guardio Security, hackers are impersonating Amazon's ...

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US A NEW TWIST ON THESE POTENTIALLY COSTLY MESSAGES. LAST YEAR, NEWS EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE REPORTED ON TURNPIKE TEXT MESSAGE SCAMS MANY TIMES, BUT IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, WE’VE HEARD FROM A SURPRISING ...

Messages that claim you're due a tax refund are scams. The scammers want your bank account or Social Security number. Don't respond to the message. Instead, report it and then delete it. Most of us ...

Unwanted text messages could soon put a little extra cash in the pockets of users across the country. A settlement reached in December 2025 calls for payments to be made to qualified class members who ...

A series of bombshell text messages between actress Blake Lively and her longtime friend Taylor Swift has revealed how Lively’s personal relationships suffered amid drama on the set of her film “It ...

Users once again are reporting getting texts from the "DMV" and "MVC" warning them of outstanding traffic tickets. t's a scam, which now has entered its second year. The scam text messages have been ...

In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat. By Jeffrey Gettleman In a text message over the weekend, ...

Did you get this text from Verizon about *** $20 credit? This one is real. Here's what's going on. So after an outage knocked out service for customers nationwide, Verizon now says it's going to give ...