Stocked with food that expired years ago and lined with dusty shelves, some New York City bodegas and delis have allegedly been operating as fronts for organized Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card-skimming schemes, using hidden devices to steal information and ultimately taxpayer-funded benefits, according to an expert who is sounding the alarm. Criminals attach hidden skimming devices to checkout payment terminals to capture EBT card data while using...

Republican outrage went into overdrive after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that the state had mistakenly registered 6,600 noncitizen voters, prompting calls for an immediate end to automatic voter registration through the New Jersey Motor Vehicle System (MVC). Sherrill announced on Tuesday that a “serious software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to the registration of roughly 6,600 people who indicated that they were...