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Brooke Lierman, Comptroller, Maryland  - Elder financial fraud is affecting many Maryland families. In 2024, one in 20 older Marylanders reported being targeted, with losses totaling $47 million, nearly five times higher than just a few years ago. The average loss per victim is about $83,000.

Semafor -  President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a new counterterrorism plan on Wednesday that focuses in part on rooting out what it describes as left-wing extremist groups operating domestically and overseas.  It’s the first counterterrorism proposal released by the president since 2018, reflecting many of his second-term priorities. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s counterterrorism czar, told reporters that the administration would “use all the tools constitutionally available” to target various organizations, prioritizing “violent, secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American … or anarchist, such as antifa.”