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  • Feb 6

Swift criticized Baldoni in texts to Lively: court docs

  • Jan 23

California widower loses $1M to 'wrong number' crypto romance scam

  • Oct 31, 2025

NY's Young Republican chapter disbanded over racist messages

  • Oct 18, 2025

Don't click on that scam text from 'Amazon.' Here's what to know

  • Aug 20, 2025

Amazon scam: FTC issues warning about texts offering 'refunds'

  • Aug 2, 2025

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  • Apr 3, 2025

Atlantic's Goldberg responds to pushback

  • Mar 26, 2025

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Coronavirus Illinois: Pritzker launches free COVID-19 support text line as cases surpass 19K

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Coronavirus Illinois: Pritzker launches free COVID-19 support text line as cases surpass 19K

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Army warns of fake military draft texts circulating this week

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Lawsuit over Trump administration's Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case

The lawsuit names Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio and the National Archives and Records Administration as defendants.

  • Mar 26, 2025

Tollway scam texts flooding phones across US, especially in Chicago area

The ABC7 Chicago I-Team has a warning about tollway scams inundating phones recently.

  • Mar 6, 2025

'Smishing': US Postal Service issues warning about text message scam. Here's what to know

The U.S. Postal Service is warning customers to be wary of a common text message scam known as smishing.

  • Dec 17, 2024
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Grandma and man she accidentally texted for Thanksgiving to reunite for 9th year

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, former strangers who met eight years ago in a mistaken text message exchange, are reuniting for their ninth Thanksgiving celebration this week.

  • Nov 26, 2024
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Arizona 12-year-old has been receiving 'get better' texts meant for 49ers' Ricky Pearsall

49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall is getting more support than he may realize after being injured in a shooting. A 12-year-old boy in Arizona has Pearsall's old number and says he's been receiving hundreds of well wishes.

  • Sep 6, 2024