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Andy Cohen revealed he was hoodwinked out of “a lot of money” after a fraudster duped him into handing over his personal details. The “Watch What Happens Live” host, 55, said he received a phone call about a potential fraud on his bank account, and he offered up his information believing it was related to a debit card he recently lost. “Someone called saying they were fraud alert from my bank,” he said on an episode of his Daddy Diaries podcast last week. “Then [they] asked for my Apple ID and password. And I was like, ‘OK, this never happens,’”...

SINGAPORE —The Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Monday (5 July) that it is investigating an incident involving a 16-year-old boy who suffered a cardiac arrest after lifting weights six days into receiving his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The ministry on Monday (5 July) said it was alerted to the incident on Saturday by the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), where he had been treated at its emergency department following his collapse at home on the same morning. The boy was later transferred to the National University Hospital (NUH) in the evening, where he remains in critical...

Bush changes mind, may save auto giants Facing the potential bankruptcy of iconic American firms, President Bush on Friday abandoned his longstanding objection to using using the Wall Street bailout fund to help save G.M., Ford and Chrysler. A frustrated Republican congressional official said: "If only they had said this last week, we could have saved ourselves a full week." Ten hours after the Senate rejected a separate lifeline for the automakers, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in a statement it would be "irresponsible" to let the companies crash. So she said Bush will "consider other options," including...

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — A death row inmate convicted of murdering two women 22 years ago was set to death Tuesday without any family members present. ~snip~ The 5-foot-7, 267-pound Cooey had tried to avoid execution by arguing that his obesity would prevent humane lethal injection because viable veins in his arms are hard to find. ~snip~Cooey dined Monday evening on the special meal he ordered, including T-bone steak with A-1 sauce, onion rings, french fries, four eggs over easy, toast with butter, hash browns, a pint of rocky road ice cream, a Mountain Dew soft drink and bear claw pastries.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Secured with leg irons and shackles around his wrists and waist, Scott Peterson was taken to death row at San Quentin State Prison (search) early Thursday after being sentenced to die for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci

A man, suspected of being a Fedayeen member, is beaten by a group residents on the streets of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday April 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Jon Mills, Pool)

Suspect Held On Bail POSTED: 10:39 a.m. EST March 31, 2003 UPDATED: 10:42 a.m. EST March 31, 2003 MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Police said that a Manchester man had a tough day Sunday. It started, police say, when 33-year-old Robert Eastman tried to buy some cocaine and his dealer took off with his $100. Eastman reported the theft to police, who arrested him on a warrant for failing to pay fines. Then, Eastman's Manchester apartment caught fire Sunday night, causing about $5,000 in damage. Eastman was being held on $650.

NOW I know how a doctor feels when he loses a patient whose problems have cascaded from minor to fatal -- and it's partly the physician's fault. In my case, the death in the family is my own PC. I tried treating it for the digital equivalent of a hangnail, and in the end wound up killing the poor guy. Normally, I wouldn't go into the painful details of my troubleshooting failures, but this one is so spectacular and so full of lessons to be learned that I simply must share it. The victim is the computer that I built...