An explosive increase in teenage boys targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending explicit pictures of themselves has the FBI sounding a public-safety alarm.
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FTX founder agrees to extradition to U.S., attorney says
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced FTX founder has agreed to be extradited to the United States.
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Ex-Rep. Joe Kennedy III named envoy to Northern Ireland
Kennedy is the grandson of Robert Kennedy, who served as U.S. attorney general and senator and was the brother of President John F. Kennedy.
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Putin visits Belarus as his forces torment Ukraine from the air
Moscow has been targeting Ukraine’s power grid since October as part of a strategy to try to leave the country without heat and light during the bitterly cold winter.
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Christmas tree demand remains high despite inflation
Americans are cutting back on spending in some areas this holiday season
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Jan. 6 panel unanimously votes to refer Trump, associates for criminal prosecution
The panel’s seven Democrats and two Republicans are poised to recommend criminal charges against Trump and potentially against associates and staff.
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Jury selection begins in Proud Boys Jan. 6 sedition trial
Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and four other members of the extremist group are accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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At Hanukkah reception, Biden will condemn rising antisemitism
The Democratic president will tell guests at the Monday night event that silence is complicity.
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In Twitter poll, users tell Musk to step down as CEO
More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a Twitter poll created by Musk over whether he should step down as head of the company had voted yes by the time the poll closed Monday morning.
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Ex-Mafia boss ‘Cadillac Frank’ Salemme dies in prison at 89
Salemme led the Patriarca crime family in Boston in the early 1990s before helping prosecutors convict a corrupt FBI agent after learning that other mobsters had been talking about him to authorities.