Kari Slater is a single mom who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. She depends on government aid programs like Snap and Temporary Cash Assistance. At the beginning of January she discovered that her account had been emptied. Tamara Jilksbore: "I knew right day to day that I was a victim of the benefits being stolen"
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.
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