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Major mobile payment services, PayPal and Venmo, along with video-sharing platform YouTube, experienced widespread outages within a 24-hour period.PayPal and Venmo outages started at about 11 a.m. Thursday, with tens of thousands of reports about worldwide outages on both sites by noon, according to Downdetector.com, an online user reporting system.As of 3 p.m., the issue seemed to have been resolved.VERIZON NAMES FORMER PAYPAL BOSS DAN SCHULMAN AS CEOIn a statement […]

Ben’s Original has issued a voluntary recall of several rice products sold across the United States due to the potential presence of small stones that could pose a risk of mouth or digestive injury if eaten.The recall covers specific batches of "long grain white," "whole grain brown" and "long grain and wild rice" products with best by dates of August 2026, according to a Tuesday announcement from the U.S. Food […]

Federal health officials added more ground cinnamon brands to its health alert after detecting elevated levels of lead in the product. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in its latest update last week that HAETAE-brand and Roshni-brand ground cinnamon are joining a growing list of products that are considered unsafe due to elevated lead levels. The FDA has continued to update its list of recalled cinnamon brands, now totaling 16, since […]

Mortgage rates fell for the second week in a row, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage decreased to 6.27% from last week's reading of 6.3%. The average rate on a 30-year loan was 6.44% a year ago."Importantly, homeowners have noticed these consistently lower rates, driving an uptick in refinance activity," said Sam Khater, […]