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increasingly targeting home mortgage down payments for fraud attempts. That’s a form of business email compromise, a category that claimed $676 million in fraud losses in 2017. According to

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reported about a study that indicated Black patients were, on average, this much older than white patients when they were diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "2

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one has begun cracking down on the duplicate use of passwords, as it had threatened to do for some time.", "answers" : [ { "answer" : "Netflix", "correctAnswer" : true }, { "answer" :

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feeling that the times are demanding us to be as creative as possible,” this actor recently told AARP. “We should all work together to make something beautiful, like we do in the movies.”",

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Randy Lilleston is the homepage editor for AARP.org. He previously served as editor-in-chief for business news publisher Industry Dive and was a senior digital editor for NPR, USA Today and

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