Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown attacks Bernie Moreno's history as car dealer
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Michigan Appeals Court backs Ford dealer's request to arbitrate lease pricing case
The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision declaring a customer’s allegations of lease pricing deception at a Westland car dealership needed to be resolved through arbitration.
The 2024 Automotive News Leading Women Conference in pictures
This year’s conference featured keynote talks from Lisa Drake of Ford and Tia Battle of Hyundai Motor America.
We checked in with Hollywood writers a year after the strike. They’re not OK
LOS ANGELES — For 14 straight years, Ted Sullivan was consistently paid to pen stories for the screen. The Hollywood-based, 53-year-old TV writer and producer’s résumé boasts credits on hit shows such as “Riverdale” and “Star Trek: Discovery.”
Now, he spends seven to eight hours a day writing without pay, preparing for the unforeseeable moment that Hollywood studios start greenlighting projects and hiring writers again. He misses the picket lines of the WGA strike, which, to him, were the next best thing to working in a writers’ room, surrounded and supported by colleagues.
He hasn’t worked in a real writers’ room since the strike began.
“I feel like I’m in the worst ‘Twilight Zone’ ever,” Sullivan said, “where I wake up and I’m now 20 years old again writing spec scripts for free in my apartment.”
A year after Writers Guild of America members walked out in pursuit of higher wages, enhanced streaming residuals and limitations on the use of artificial intelligence, The Times checked in with multiple writers of varying experience levels spanning film and TV.
Why finance scams target older adults, and how to protect yourself
By Kimberly Palmer | NerdWallet
While financial fraud can happen to anyone, older adults face unique challenges when it comes to scams, which are increasingly common among that age group.
Losses due to scams targeting those age 60 or older ballooned to $3.4 billion last year, an increase of 11% over the previous year, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. The average amount lost was $33,915.
Tech support scams were reported to be most common among this demographic, followed by personal data breaches and confidence and romance scams, where the scam artist first gains trust before moving on to the topic of money. The FBI notes that older adults make an attractive target because they usually have savings, a home and other assets. They may be more trusting and less likely to report being scammed.
“They are willing to take the phone call,” says Mark Kapczynski, senior vice president of strategic partnerships at Onerep, a technology company that helps people protect their privacy by removing consumers’ personal information online. “A fraudster can build an immediate sense of trust and execute the con,” he adds.