Philadelphia Firefighter Injured

NEW YORK — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means it’s the perfect time to learn how to protect yourself from scams. “Scams have become so sophisticated now. Phishing emails, texts, spoofing caller ID, all of this technology gives scammers that edge,” said Eva Velasquez, president and CEO of the Identity Theft Resource Center. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] As scammers find new ways to steal money and personal information, consumers should be more vigilant about who they trust, especially online.

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) It’s been just over two weeks since Claudia Sheinbaum took office as Mexico’s first female president. It’s already clear that the new government is preparing to take a new, more ambitious tack on climate change. In an Oct.

When I was in practice as a pediatrician, I wrote daily prescriptions for reading. I had an actual notepad to help me prescribe books to families of young infants and toddlers. On that pad, I would write things like “read to your baby for 20 minutes,” and along with that prescription I’d give that family an age- and language-appropriate book to read together.

WASHINGTON — Over the past four years, judges at Washington’s federal courthouse have punished hundreds of rioters who stormed the U. S. Capitol in an unprecedented assault on the nation’s democracy. On the cusp of the next presidential election, some of those judges fear another burst of political violence could be coming. Before recently sentencing a rioter to prison, U.

In September, one of the largest public school systems in Tennessee banned Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Beloved. In 2023, a police officer showed up to a classroom in Massachusetts after a parent disapproved of illustrations in Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. A librarian was fired in Texas after she refused to put so-called inappropriate books behind the counter, including a title about the origins of the KKK. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] These are only a handful of the many flashpoints of the national rise in book bans, which has grown exponentially over the past four years.

JERUSALEM — The Israeli government said a drone was launched toward the prime minister’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as Iran’s supreme leader vowed that Hamas would continue its fight against Israel following the killing of the mastermind of last year’s deadly Oct. 7 attack. Sirens wailed Saturday morning in Israel, warning of incoming fire from Lebanon, including a drone launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Caesarea, the Israeli government said.