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Data Doctors: Zelle vs. Venmo, which is better?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

Q: What’s the difference between Zelle and Venmo?A: Mobile payment systems allow you to use your smartphone to transfer money, which eliminates the need to write checks, grab cash from an ATM or purchase money orders or cashier’s checks.This convenience also benefits the recipient as they don’t have to make a deposit or wait for a long period of time to get the money in their account.Zelle and Venmo are two of the most popular platforms providing similar services, but some significant differences exist.ZelleThis platform only works in conjunction with a U.S.-based bank account, as it was developed by seven large banks: Bank of America, Truist (formerly BB&T), Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.It’s a seamless and fast way to transfer funds between two accounts, as over 1,800 banks and credit unions provide Zelle as an option within their banking apps.All you need is either the phone number or email address of the recipient to send funds. If they hav...

Police searching for suspect after drive-by shooting leaves man critical, woman grazed in SW Miami-Dade

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

Police are investigating a drive-by shooting after a woman opened fire on two people sitting in a vehicle in a Southwest Miami-Dade neighborhood. According to police, the incident occurred on Friday when a female driver approached a car with a man in the driver’s seat and a woman in the passenger seat. Officials said after the female shooter opened fire on both occupants in the other vehicle and were shot. The victims drove themselves to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center South for medical attention. The male victim was identified as 29-year-old Robert Harden Jr. According to his family, he was shot in the back. Authorities said the woman, identified as Michelle Mitchell, was grazed in the face by a bullet and is expected to be OK while the man is in critical condition. 7News cameras capture Mitchell speaking to detectives at the hospital. The female suspect behind this violent attack is still at large, police said. The Miami-Dade Police Department is curren...

Proud Boys member who disappeared ahead of his sentencing in the Jan. 6 attack has been arrested

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who disappeared days before he was supposed to be sentenced for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot has been arrested, the FBI said Friday.Christopher Worrell, of Naples, Florida, was on house arrest when he went missing last month ahead of his sentencing hearing in Washington, where prosecutors were seeking 14 years behind bars on convictions for assault, obstruction of Congress and other offenses.Andrea Aprea, a spokesperson for the FBI office in Tampa, confirmed Worrell’s arrest, but said she had no further details. Jail records show he is at the Collier County Jail, but a spokesperson for the Collier County Sheriff’s Office referred all questions to the FBI.Worrell’s attorney, William Shipley, didn’t immediately return a phone message on Friday.Worrell, 52, had been on house arrest in Florida since his release from jail in Washington in November 2021, less than a month after a judge substantiated his civil-rights c...

Couple suing Disney World claims water slide caused ‘painful wedgie,’ severe injury

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (WESH) — A couple is now suing Disney World after they say a water slide caused a painful wedgie and severe injury.The lawsuit filed in Orange County on Wednesday is focused on Typhoon Lagoon and the 214-foot water slide there called Humunga Kowabunga.According to Disney, people plummet down a near-vertical five-story drop. Riders go without a raft or a tube.The complaint said riders can reach speeds approaching 40 miles per hour and before they go down the slide they are told to “cross their legs at the ankles.”The lawsuit said in this woman’s case, when she went down the slide, near the end “her body lifted up, she [became] airborne, and she was slammed downward against The Slide – which increased the likelihood of her legs becoming uncrossed.”The document said that and “her impact into the standing water at the bottom” caused a “painful wedgie” and immediate bleeding.The lawsuit said an ambulance took the wife to a hos...

US government quizzes British firms on Chinese investment links

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

LONDON — The U.S. government has been consulting British companies about their links to China as the U.K. considers banning its firms from investing in some areas of the Chinese economy.Business and Trade Minister Nus Ghani told POLITICO that the U.K. government was waiting on the results of the U.S. survey to make a decision on whether to follow America’s lead and clamp down on British investment into China.It comes after Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden agreed to work together to address the national security risks posed by “certain types” of outbound investment when they signed the joint Atlantic Declaration in July.The White House has already imposed capital controls on U.S. firms trying to invest in Chinese companies developing technologies like advanced semiconductors, quantum computing sensors and some forms of artificial intelligence (AI).The U.S. began to restrict economic cooperation with China in emerging technologies under former President Donald Trump. Biden has onl...

United Autoworkers strikes grow as 7,000 more workers hit pickets against Detroit’s big automakers

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union says its two-week strike against Detroit automakers will spread to 7,000 more workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Michigan.Union President Shawn Fain told workers on a video appearance Friday that negotiations haven’t broken down but Ford and GM have refused to make meaningful progress. Jeep maker Stellantis was spared from the third round of strikes.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers strikes against Detroit’s three automakers that spread to dozens of parts distribution centers one week ago could deepen Friday.The union has vowed to hit automakers harder if it does not receive what it calls substantially improved contract offers as part of an unprecedented, simultaneous labor campaign against Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis.UAW President Shawn Fain is scheduled to make an announcement at 10 a.m. Eastern ti...

Oxford High School shooter will get life in prison, no parole, for killing 4 students, judge rules

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A teenager who killed four students at Michigan’s Oxford High School will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole, a judge said Friday.Judge Kwamé Rowe announced the decision over video conference, weeks after hearing from experts who clashed over Ethan Crumbley’s mental health and witnesses who described the tragic day in 2021 in sharp detail.Crumbley heard the decision with his lawyers while sitting in a room in the county jail.The 17-year-old will be formally sentenced in Oakland County court on Dec. 8, a day when survivors and families can tell the judge about how the shooting affected their lives.First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence for adults in Michigan. But the shooter was 15 at the time, and the judge had the option of choosing a shorter term that would mean an eventual opportunity for freedom.“Even if the defendant changes, and he finds some peace and some meaning in his life beyond torturing and killing, d...

Billionaire with ‘more wine than could be drunk in a lifetime’ to sell 25,000 bottles worth $50M

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

(CNN) — Taiwanese billionaire Pierre Chen is auctioning off 25,000 bottles of wine from his vast collection, with some of the rarest items expected to fetch as much as $190,000 each.Predicted to sell for up to $50 million, they form the largest and most expensive wine collection ever to be offered at auction, said Sotheby’s, which is organizing the five-part sale.Chen’s wine knowledge puts him in a “league of his own,” said George Lacey, Head of Sotheby’s Wine for Asia in a statement, describing the collection as “staggering both in volume and range.” The auction house said the billionaire, who is founder and chair of electronics giant Yageo Corporation, had assembled the bottles over four decades.“There is currently more wine in his cellars than any one individual could ever hope to drink in a lifetime, but wine is for drinking,” said Lacey.While the auction house would not confirm the exact size of Chen’s collection, a spokesperson told CNN via email&...

Authorities dispatched to Britney Spears’ home over video showing singer dancing with knives

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

(CNN) — Officials were called to the southern California home of Britney Spears on Wednesday to conduct a wellness check after the singer posted a video on social media depicting her dancing with knives.Someone close to Spears called authorities “genuinely concerned about her wellbeing,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Captain Dean Worthy told CNN.“Some would argue this is her expressing her creative freedom, and some might argue this is dangerous and there’s a safety issue or mental health concern,” said Worthy, but authorities opted to check on the singer’s well-being due to the initial call from someone close to Spears.CNN has reached out to a representative for Spears for comment.The initial call from the Spears associate, whom authorities are not naming, was to the Los Angeles Police Department mental health assessment team, which then referred the call to the sheriff’s office, said Worthy.The sheriff’s office dispatched a sergeant who “has had multiple...

Unforgettable moment: Brooks Robinson’s Oct. 14, 1970, World Series home run shook Memorial Stadium | GUEST COMMENTARY

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:45 GMT

It is the rarest of moments that can produce a collective lump in the throats of an entire city, but that is what we in Baltimore experienced en masse on a bright fall day in 1970.On that Oct. 14, Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium, with the open end of its horseshoe shape offering a view of trees full of autumn color, was the site of World Series Game Four. An ovation began building throughout the packed stands as Brooks Robinson approached the plate to lead off the bottom of the second inning. The Orioles led the Cincinnati Reds three games to none, principally because the player, whom local fans referred to simply as Brooks, had turned the series into a personal showcase like few players before or since, having punctuated a sterling offensive performance with some of the most remarkable defensive plays the Fall Classic had ever witnessed.The continuing applause was a sincere and grateful acknowledgement of a player who had put his athletic greatness, something that locals had co...