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College in 2026: The Trends Reshaping Whether — and How — Students Enroll The image of a "typical" college student — 18, fresh out of high school, living in a dorm — describes a shrinking share of who's actually enrolled. A wave of demographic, technological, and economic shifts is reshaping higher education, and the changes go well beyond tuition prices. The "Traditional" Student Is No Longer the Majority Reality According to data...

The classic "grandparent scam" — a panicked phone call claiming a family member is in trouble and needs money wired immediately — has been around for years. What's changed is that the panicked voice on the phone can now genuinely sound like your family member, because it is, in a sense: an AI-generated clone of it. The Federal Trade Commission has warned that scammers only need a short audio clip...

The Identity Theft Numbers That Should Worry Every American in 2026 Identity theft isn't a rare, unlucky event anymore — it's a background risk of everyday life. The latest data makes that hard to ignore. Over 6.4 million identity theft and fraud reports were filed with the Federal Trade Commission in 2024 alone. Put another way: someone in the United States becomes a victim of identity theft roughly every 4.9 seconds,...

Football gets almost all the attention when the topic is youth concussions — but the CDC's own data tells a broader story, one that matters for parents whose kids play soccer, cheer, wrestle, or run cross country. According to the CDC's HEADS UP program, about 70% of emergency department visits for sports-related traumatic brain injuries among children involve kids age 17 and under. Boys visit the ER for these injuries...