If you've had the same Yahoo email since the early 2000s, you're not alone. Many of us have been dragging that inbox along for 20+ years, stuffed with decades of old messages, forgotten subscriptions and heavy attachments that could probably sink a server.

Recently, Stacy from Nashville, Tennessee, wrote in asking if a message from Yahoo about storage limits and pricing was real or just another scam. The email claimed she'd maxed out her free storage and risked losing email access unless she upgraded or cleared space. Sound familiar?

If you've seen the same warning, you're in good company, and yes, it's legit. But that doesn't mean you should click and pay without thinking. Here's what's actually going on and if it might be time to consider a new provider.

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Yahoo Mail users with overflowing inboxes are being notified that their storage has exceeded the free limit. Yahoo is making changes that kick in on Aug. 27, 2025. If your account is still over the limit by that date, you won't be able to send or receive emails.

The email Stacy received originally had incorrect pricing meant for Canadian users. Yahoo followed up with corrected U.S. pricing:

This is part of Yahoo's broader push to monetize its email platform while encouraging users to either clean up their inboxes or pay for expanded storage.

If you want to keep using Yahoo for free, here are the steps to reduce your storage:

Access your storage dashboard in Yahoo Mail settings. Sort and delete large emails, especially those with big attachments. It's easy to keep your email inbox tidy. Here's how to delete a single email, or how to delete multiple emails at the same time, in New Yahoo Mail.

Delete 1 or more emails

By default, selecting all emails will only select 100 emails at a time. A pop-up notice will be displayed near the top of the screen that gives you the option to select all messages in your inbox.

Delete all messages in a folder

This option isn't available for your Inbox or system folders.

(Note: This doesn't work for system folders like Inbox or Spam.)

Find and delete Yahoo Mail emails with large attachments

Older version of Yahoo Mail:

(These steps apply to the older Yahoo Mail interface and may differ slightly depending on your browser or account settings.)

Newer version of Yahoo Mail:

(These steps apply to the newer Yahoo Mail interface and features may vary by account. Yahoo may update these steps at any time.)

Pro tips:

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They still count against your storage, even if you don't see them in your main inbox.

On desktop (web browser):

To empty your Trash folder:

To empty your Spam folder:

On the Yahoo Mail App (Mobile):

To empty Trash:

To empty Spam:

Important: Deleting messages from Trash and Spam is required to actually free up storage. Emails in those folders still count toward your Yahoo Mail quota until they're permanently removed.

Check your real-time usage under settings so you're not caught off guard.

Using desktop (Web) Yahoo Mail

Using the Yahoo mobile app or mobile site

This ensures you're up to date and never surprised by a storage cap.

If you're frustrated with storage limits, privacy concerns or the uptick in paid features, you're not stuck.

Option 1: Forward important emails to another email address

This is the quickest, no-tech-required method.

Tip: Create a separate folder in your other email account for these backups.

Option 2: Download emails as files

Great if you want offline access or to store them on a drive.

You can save these files to your desktop, external hard drive, or cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox.

Consider switching to a more modern provider that offers better value and enhanced privacy features. Many newer email services focus on user privacy, provide clutter-free inboxes and often support the use of alias addresses for added security. Free options are available that seamlessly integrate with popular productivity tools.

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If you're not ready to cut ties completely, forward Yahoo emails to your new address so you don't miss a beat. Here's how to do it:

What you should know:

Bonus tip:

If you use Yahoo Mail Plus, you can set up filters and more advanced forwarding rules for even more control.

Yahoo is no longer just an old-school email provider; it's a business looking to turn free users into paying customers. If you rely on Yahoo Mail for critical communication, it's time to decide:

Whatever you choose, the worst option is doing nothing and losing access on Aug. 27.

Now, before you click anything in that email from Yahoo, take a pause. While this particular message from Yahoo above is real, scammers love to copy messages like this to trick people into clicking fake upgrade links or entering personal info. Always go directly to Yahoo.com or open the Yahoo Mail app to manage your account. Never click links in unexpected emails, even if they look official. You'll also want to protect yourself with strong antivirus software. The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices. This protection can also alert you to phishing emails and ransomware scams, keeping your personal information and digital assets safe. Think of it as your first line of defense against email scams.

Get my picks for the best 2025 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at CyberGuy.com/LockUpYourTech

Stacy's email wasn't a scam. It was a real warning from Yahoo, but one that deserves a smart response. Whether you stick with Yahoo, trim your inbox or start fresh with another service, the key is to act now. Don't wait until your inbox locks you out.

What About You? Would you pay for more Yahoo storage, or is it finally time to switch to a new inbox? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com/Contact

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GOP Texas state senator Mayes Middleton told Fox News Digital that the stakes couldn't be higher when it comes to Republicans' redistricting fight with Democrats in Texas, arguing that the effort to redraw the maps in Texas could "save America."

Middleton pointed out that if the results of the 2026 mid-term elections lead to another razor-thin majority for Republicans, the Congress "will know" that the Texas redistricting bill was responsible for the GOP maintaining its power. Meanwhile, despite Democrats' attempts to halt the GOP redistricting effort by fleeing the state, Middleton expressed little concern that these challenges would amount to anything.  

"Literally, this redistricting bill could save this entire nation. This is why this fight is so important to me," Middleton said. "I will fight with everything in me to make sure that this map becomes law, and we get those five more Republican seats … It could literally save America."

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Despite the stakes, according to Middleton, he did not express concern about Democrats' efforts to challenge the Republican redistricting bill, which has included dozens of Texas House Democrats fleeing the state to prevent the legislature from being able to conduct official business.

He called their challenge "meritless," pointing to litigation stemming from his home county of Galveston that found that "coalition districts" — districts formed by combining multiple minority groups to reach a majority — were in violation of the Voting Rights Act. As a result, Democrats cannot claim an obligation to create such districts to preserve minority voting power, Republicans argue.

"Before the Petteway case was decided, basically you could add together various minority groups to get above 50% and then, under [Democrats'] interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, they said that was a protected district," Middleton explained. "And that actually began when Galveston County Commissioners Court redistricted, and the last Democrat in the Commissioners Court was drawn out of office, and they sued and said that was racist. But yet, not long after, maybe a month after, Harris County redistricted and drew out a Republican, and they said that was fine. So that shows you just the ridiculous hypocrisy of the left in this case."

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Civil arrest warrants were issued by the Texas House Republican majority earlier this week in an effort to compel the absent Democrats to return, but they are only enforceable within state lines and do not lead to jail time, since the warrants are not criminal. Still, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has called on a court in Illinois, where a large swath of the Texas House Democrats fled, to enforce the warrants against Democrats.

In addition to blocking Texas Republicans' redistricting bill, the exodus of Texas Democrats is obstructing crucial legislation from making its way through the legislature, Middleton told Fox News Digital.

Middleton pointed to one bill being held up, Senate Bill 7, which aims to protect all-female spaces from being used by biological males who identify as transgender females. Others include a ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying, an election-crime enforcement bill and critical flood relief legislation. 

"These are the conservative priorities that we were elected to get done. And the Democrats, of course, are looking for ways to block that are unlawful," Middleton argued. "Frankly, they're doing it in a way that will cause their office to be vacated if they don't come back."

Amid a flurry of recent global headlines declaring an all-out famine in the Gaza Strip, the leaders of France, Britain and Canada, as well as some other countries, declared their intentions to formally recognize a Palestinian state as a way of ending the nearly two-year war. 

Yet, the announcements — a direct response to global headlines and shocking photographs of allegedly starving children — may become hollow statements after the Israeli government on Friday said it would expand the military operation in Gaza as the only way to defeat Hamas, the designated Palestinian terror group whose Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel sparked the devastating war, and restore peace.

Recognition of a Palestinian state by a growing number of states could come as soon as next month’s United Nations General Assembly. Yet with Hamas still present in Gaza and still holding at least 50 hostages, and with the other Palestinian leadership, the West Bank’s Palestinian Authority, weak and corrupt, will that recognition undermine efforts to reach both a short- and long-term solution to the decades-old intractable conflict?

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"I assume there is a combination of considerations here — some related to foreign policy, others to domestic politics — but the basis is still the naive belief that a Palestinian state is the right way to solve the conflict," Meir Ben Shabbat, Israel’s former national security advisor who now heads the Misgav Institute for National Security, told Fox News Digital. 

Ben Shabbat, who led the National Security Council from 2017 to 2021, said that from the perspective of French President Emmanuel Macron, "the initiative itself is what matters, not its content or chances of success." 

"It’s doubtful whether he has considered the consequences this might have, even within the Palestinian camp itself," Ben Shabbat said. 

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Last week, Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas political bureau official based in Qatar, told Qatari news network Al Jazeera that international recognition of a Palestinian state was "one of the fruits of the Oct. 7 attack."

"Why are all these countries recognizing Palestine now?" he said, according to a translation from Arabic by non-profit organization MEMRI. "The overall outcome of Oct. 7 forced the world to open its eyes to the Palestinian cause and to act forcefully in this respect. (They recognize now) that the Palestinian people deserve freedom and their own state."

Israeli leaders have warned that recognizing a Palestinian state at this juncture would be a clear reward for terrorism, and it will certainly do little to strengthen the position — or popularity — of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been accused of corruption and who has refused to hold democratic elections for 20 years.

International recognition of a Palestinian state is also unlikely to change the reality on the ground in Gaza or the West Bank, both of which have changed physically and demographically since initial plans for a two-state solution were drafted as part of the Oslo Accords some 32 years ago. 

"In practical terms, the effects of unilateral recognition are quite limited," Ben Shabbat said. "The recognition does not address borders, and, in fact, most of the world has already recognized a Palestinian state when it was accepted as a U.N. observer state (in 2012)."

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"The main impact of these declarations is psychological —the momentum they might generate and the foundation they lay for potential future practical decisions," he said.

Gayil Talshir, a political scientist and expert on Israeli trends and public opinion from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said the steps to recognize a Palestinian state were "just empty declarations" that could actually end up "worsening the situation." 

"It's a reaction to images instead of thinking about diplomacy and the process of how to make a real change," she said. 

By contrast, the "New York Declaration" issued last week by the Arab League, which called on Hamas to release all the hostages, disarm and end its rule of Gaza forges a more promising path to peace, she said.

"What is the political imagination that stands behind the French declaration of support of Palestine if it doesn't say that Hamas should not be part of such a state or that the Palestinian Authority, which is completely corrupt, should not be part of it," said Talshir. 

"A declaration may feel very righteous for France and Canada and the rest of these states, but it actually complicates the situation further and maybe even distances an option that could materialize in the future," she added. "instead of building a process in which you have international supervision over Gaza and maybe also over the occupied Palestinian territories and gradually build Palestinian capabilities of self rule, they are just standing with Hamas against Israel." 

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Among some Palestinians, too, the idea of statehood, while welcomed, feels far out of reach. 

"Practically speaking, I can’t see this will happen anytime soon. It has to happen through long-term negotiations," said Huda Abu Arqoub, a Palestinian peace-building activist, referring to the idea of a Palestinian state coming to life.

"For Palestinians watching what is happening in Gaza, something inside us has died. And with that kind of despair, we just don't have the luxury right now to think of the day after or of a two-state solution.

"Once this war is out of the picture, maybe we can breathe, maybe we can regroup, maybe we will be open to having other solutions rather than just the Oslo-based solution," said Abu Arqoub, who acts as an advisor on peace to the European Union and some Arab states, including Saudi Arabia.

Instead of an international community "just taking sides," she added, "there must be a transitional period for Palestinians to regain some sort of trust in the system, in the two-state solution, and to give us a choice whether we want to be part of a political entity that runs for elections or not."

Malik Beasley's basketball future is marred by uncertainty in the midst of a reported federal probe into the free agent's alleged involvement in gambling tied to NBA games and prop bets.

Beasley, who spent the 2024-25 NBA season with the Detroit Pistons, was residing in downtown Detroit — at least until recently. An eviction order was filed against the 28-year-old roughly two months after the 28-year-old was sued. The lawsuit stated that Beasley failed to make rental payments to the landlord.

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This is not the first time action has been taken against Beasley amid a rental payment dispute. He faced two lawsuits for allegedly missing payments totaling $21,500 for his unit located in a downtown building owned by Bedrock Detroit — a company controlled by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert.

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A default judgment was issued after the second of the suits received no response.

Beasley's reps were believed to have been in talks with the Pistons about a potential multi-year contract before news of the federal gambling probe surfaced, according to multiple reports.

Steve Haney, Beasley's attorney of record, said his client has not been formally charged with a crime.

Aside from the rent lawsuit, Hazan Sports Management Group filed suit against Beasley, claiming the professional basketball player breached his contract with the organization. The management group alleged Beasley failed to repay a $650,000 advance by the time the contract was terminated. 

Despite recent issues, Beasley suggested a path back to Detroit still exists. He also hinted that other NBA franchises have expressed interest in his services.

"We gotta be prepared to come back to the Pistons, or, like I said, there's some other teams interested as well," Beasley said on Wednesday in a social media post.

Beasley averaged 16.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game last season.

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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin appear to be on track to soon have their first meeting since Trump took office for his second term earlier this year.

"As for Ukrainian affairs directly, at the suggestion of the American side, an agreement was agreed upon in principle to hold a bilateral meeting at the highest level in the coming days, that is, a meeting of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump," aide to the Russian president Yuri Ushakov noted, according to a Russian to English translation by Google Translate of Ushakov's comments.

"As for the option of a trilateral meeting, which for some reason was discussed yesterday in Washington, this option was simply mentioned by the American representative during the meeting in the Kremlin. But this option was not specifically discussed. The Russian side left this option completely, without comment," Ushakov noted. "We propose first of all to focus on preparing a bilateral meeting with D. Trump and we believe that the main thing is for this meeting to be successful and productive."

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Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment early on Thursday morning.

The potential meeting would come as President Trump has been trying to help broker an end to the years-long Russia-Ukraine war.

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"My Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, just had a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Great progress was made!" Trump declared in a Wednesday post on Truth Social. 

"Afterwards, I updated some of our European Allies. Everyone agrees this War must come to a close, and we will work towards that in the days and weeks to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted, "As President Trump said earlier today on TRUTH Social, great progress was made during Special Envoy Witkoff’s meeting with President Putin. The Russians expressed their desire to meet with President Trump, and the President is open to meeting with both President Putin and President Zelensky. President Trump wants this brutal war to end."

Fox News Channel's Peter Doocy contributed to this report

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia asserted that she is "radically AMERICA FIRST," shaming those who are not and labeling them as "the enemy."

The congresswoman said that the nation is "falling apart." 

"I’m America First. Maybe even America only. I don’t care if you call me an isolationist. America is our home. And it’s falling apart," she wrote on social media.

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"When my children’s generation are buried in credit card debt, student loan debt, can’t afford rent, can’t afford car insurance, health insurance, and feel like they will never be able to afford to buy a home, Yes. I’m unapologetically and radically AMERICA FIRST. AND SHAME ON EVERYONE ELSE WHO IS NOT. As a matter of fact YOU are the problem. YOU are the enemy. As a mother, I can’t see it any other way," she declared.

Greene has been expressing frustration with the GOP. 

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"I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore," she told the Daily Mail. 

"I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans," Greene said, according to the outlet.

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She has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2021.

A little-known opioid that’s deadlier than fentanyl has led to a growing number of overdose deaths in recent years.

Nitazenes, a class of synthetic opioids, were originally developed as pain relievers in the 1950s, but were never approved for use due to the high overdose risk, according to a report from the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD).

Starting in 2019, nitazenes (benzimidazole-opioids) began to enter the illicit drug market in Europe, where they have been reported on almost every continent.

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CICAD’s report suggests that "nitazene use is a growing trend in North America and that availability is likely spreading across the Americas."

The most prevalent type of nitazene is isotonitazene (ISO), but at least a dozen others have been identified, the report stated.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies ISO as a Schedule 1 drug, along with seven other nitazenes.

"Nitazenes are being produced in illicit labs overseas, mostly in places like China and India, and are getting trafficked into the U.S. through the same channels used for fentanyl," Corey Gamberg, a licensed alcohol and drug counselor and executive director at the Massachusetts Center for Addiction, told Fox News Digital. 

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Because they’re synthetic and cheap to make, they’ve become a popular option for illegal manufacturers, the expert noted.

"As authorities crack down on fentanyl, traffickers pivot to new synthetic opioids like nitazenes to get around enforcement," Gamberg went on. 

"These drugs are cheap to make and easy to move. It's a pattern we’ve seen before, and it’s repeating itself now."

Nitazenes are available in pills, powders, sprays and other forms. They can be snorted, smoked, injected or taken orally.

The biggest risk is potency, as some types of nitazenes are several times stronger than fentanyl.

Dr. Jonathan Avery, vice chair of addiction psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, confirmed that nitazenes can be hundreds of times stronger than morphine and up to 10 times more potent than fentanyl, "making even tiny doses deadly."

In addition to potentially fatal overdoses, the drugs are known to cause dependency, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, disorientation, loss of consciousness, cardiac arrest and seizures, according to the CICAD report.

The other issue is that people usually don’t know they’re taking them. 

"Nitazenes are often mixed into heroin, pressed pills or even stimulants — so someone might think they’re using one thing and end up taking something completely different," Gamberg cautioned. "That unpredictability is what makes them so deadly."

Adding to the danger of nitazenes is that testing is very limited, according to Dr. Ryan Marino, a medical toxicologist at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Test strips are available that can help people screen things like powdered drugs and pills for the presence of nitazenes, but more definitive testing is limited to more advanced toxicology labs, and also limited by cost and turnaround time," he told Fox News Digital.

"While test strips are useful, they are not a definitive way to rule out nitazenes in drugs, and more advanced testing for nitazenes is not widely available, even in post-mortem testing."

Routine hospital and workplace drug screens do not reliably detect nitazenes, according to Avery.

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"Enforcement is difficult because producers constantly tweak chemical structures to evade laws and standard tests," he said.

To prevent deadly overdoses, Avery called for specialized testing and rapid drug‑checking tools to identify nitazenes in the street supply.

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"Naloxone (Narcan) can reverse nitazene overdoses, but multiple doses may be needed because of their potency," he said.

"Public awareness, widespread naloxone distribution and rapid drug‑checking are key to preventing deaths."