American Airlines Reportedly Accused a Black Social Worker of Kidnapping the White Child In Her Care. Now She's Suing.
Never mind the court order showing the child as a dependent in her care.
Never mind the court order showing the child as a dependent in her care.
As a state attorney, the young GOP senator oversaw raids of more than a dozen massage parlors, but he didn’t secure a single sex trafficking conviction.
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
Can the government compel speech? For Supreme Court justices, that seems to depend on the content of that speech.
This preposterous claim is front and center in a new PragerU video.
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
We've seen this before...
The anti-prostitution pledge is unconstitutional when applied to U.S. nonprofits. But the feds say it's still OK to compel speech from these groups' foreign affiliates.
Lawmakers want to get tougher on touching "with the intent to sexually arouse."
A potent combination of puritanism, racism, and political opportunism is putting Asian masseuses and the people who support them in needless danger.
GOP attacks on internet smut are heating up, but the porn industry has more practical threats to worry about.
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And they're just as wrong and dangerous this time around.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."
"It's all over Facebook."
Since FOSTA passed in 2018, "sex workers have faced increased violence" and "have been forced onto the streets," the California congressman says.
Operation Independence Day is just Operation Cross Country by a different name.
From morning till past midnight, supporters and opponents of a bill to decriminalize prostitution offered starkly different visions of safety and rights.
You know, to "fight human trafficking."
The cases hinges on two laws—FOSTA and Section 230—that have been hotly contested in recent years.
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Politicians accused the site of victimizing women and children. A federal investigation found otherwise.
Sealed memos fought over in federal court last week show authorities have known for years that claims about Backpage were bogus.
The operation is still arresting sex workers and calling it a rescue mission.
The claim that 100,000 to 300,000 underage people were being sex trafficked in the United States was used in effort to destroy Backpage.com's founders.
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
For the second year in a row, federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children have dropped.
Aggressive asset forfeiture collides with First Amendment rights.
He says his role in Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal has become a distraction.
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'We know what we want to do with our bodies, and we don't need government interference.'
"The victims are the sex workers…getting harassed and locked up in cages by the cops."
Police often accuse people of "sex trafficking." Usually, it’s simply prostitution.
The bill also targets strip clubs
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Did San Francisco really see a 170 percent "spike in human trafficking" last year?
Nonetheless, a judge will let a sex trafficking complaint against Weinstein proceed.
Plus: "content moderation laws are...not about punishing tech companies" and union fees have taken an astonishing hit.
Video evidence contradicted Santana Adams' account.
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Whose hysteria looks silliest in retrospect?
Fake news is real. Momo is not.
We were told this sort of spying would only be used to stop terrorists. And yet...
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