HMRC warns customers criminals are targeting individuals with an elaborate scam trying to take their money. Criminals try again to pose as HMRC while people start working on their tax credits. 2.1 million tax credit customers are expected to renew their annual claims by the end of July 2022, but criminals are beginning to impersonate … Read more
FiveThirtyEight is hiring an Art and Design Intern for the summer and fall. Are you someone who loves using photography, illustration and design to tell a compelling story? Are you considering a career in visual journalism? The Art and Design Intern will work with FiveThirtyEight’s Senior Designer and story editors to make our stories as … Read more
FiveThirtyEight is seeking an intern to work with our video and social teams during the summer of 2022. We’re looking for a current student journalist or recent graduate who is enthusiastic about accuracy, clarity, video production and storytelling; who is adept at building and cultivating communities on platforms like TikTok or Instagram; and is interested … Read more
The arrest of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and the images that followed — a leader shackled and paraded before the cameras like a common criminal — were a stunning reversal for a man who for years seemed impervious to growing allegations of corruption. While president from 2014 until last month, he had the … Read more
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York has fallen to 3,883, the lowest since Dec. 19, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday. Hospitalizations have gone down 69 percent since the Omicron-fueled peak of 12,671 on Jan. 11, plummet 30 percent in the last week alone, Hochul said. The state’s positivity rate fell to 2.5 percent … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits declined for the third straight week. Jobless claims fell by 16,000 to 223,000 last week, from 239,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, declined by 2,000 to 253,250 after rising for five … Read more
The entrance to the Activision Blizzard Inc. campus is shown in Irvine, California, US, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported its Q4 2021 earnings after the bell on Thursday, falling well short of analysts’ estimates on the top and bottom line. The report will be the company’s first since Microsoft (MSFT) announced … Read more
Last week Justin Kan, a co-founder of Twitch, launched an NFT buying and selling platform called Fractal. A server was created in Discord for users to communicate, and it was exactly there that hundreds of people fell victim to scams. A link has been placed on Kan’s server ad channel, making the whole thing look … Read more