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Sextortion nightmare: How one teen's trust cost him everything

17-year-old Ryan Last from Morgan Hill, California died by suicide in 2022 after being sextorted. Authorities recently arrested four men linked to the case in West Africa. Ryan, who was catfished by someone pretending to be a 20-year-old woman on social media, paid the scammer $150 to prevent his private photos from being circulated. The scammer initially shared a nude photo and then asked Ryan to send a picture of himself in return. But the conversation immediately turned criminal when the person behind the screen started demanding money and threatened to expose those images. A few hours

Will Billy and Tina find freedom? Activists challenge zoo move

51 kiosks offer free COVID-19 tests and health supplies across Los Angeles County

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From Gulf of Mexico to Persian Gulf: Trump's name-change diplomacy stirs global tides

In a move echoing his earlier controversial renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, President Donald Trump is poised to announce that the U.S. will officially refer to the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf" during his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia. This decision, reported by multiple sources, is expected to further strain diplomatic relations with Iran, which views the term "Persian Gulf" as integral to its national identity. This initiative mirrors Trump's January 2025 executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," a move that sparked significant domestic and internationa

California bar exam’s AI fallout: $6 million in unplanned costs

A curious mind could be the solution to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's in older adults

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Tough Stance on Hemp: California's Efforts to Protect Young Consumers

Nearly all California businesses are following state regulations that ban selling intoxicating hemp products potentially harmful to young people, state officials reported. Data from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control shows 99.7% compliance among licensed businesses in 2025. Enforcement agents have inspected more than 11,445 establishments since September 2024, identifying only 148 locations with prohibited items. Gov. Gavin Newsom established emergency rules through the California Department of Public Health on Sept. 6, 2024, citing concerns about public safety. "We are doi

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Economic Crossroads: Inflation Rises as U.S. Growth Contracts in Early 2025

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Trump's tariffs roil company plans, threatening exports and investment

Businesses around the globe on Thursday faced up to a future of higher prices, trade turmoil and reduced access to the world's largest market after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed their worst fears by instituting broad tariffs worldwide.Trump ramped up his trade war with tariff rates from 10% to nearly 50%. He says the levies will bring jobs back to the United States, but company executives were focused on possible increases to prices, reducing shipments or cutting back investment activity outright. But markets shuddered at Trump's actions, which could undo decades of global trade p

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China vows to counter Trump’s ‘bullying’ tariffs as global trade war escalates

China has vowed to hit back after President Donald Trump announced major new tariffs on its exports to the United States as part of his radical overhaul of a century of American global trade policy.Trump unveiled 54% tariffs on all Chinese imports into the US Wednesday, in a move poised to push a major reset of relations and escalate a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.“China firmly opposes this and will resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests,” China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Thursday morning.The ministry slammed the

Key takeaways from Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

Hear Trump break down tariffs on various countries

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Federal judge to consider case of Georgetown fellow arrested by ICE

A federal judge is set to consider motions to release Georgetown University fellow Badar Khan Suri on bond while litigation continues over his revoked visa.Khan Suri’s attorneys have also asked the court to compel ICE to transfer him back to the federal district in Virginia where his petition was filed. The hearing is scheduled for April 11.After his arrest March 17, according to the bond motion, Khan Suri was held in a staging facility in Louisiana before being driven days later to a detention center in Alvarado, Texas, where he’s now being held.The Indian national has been housed in a cr

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Former Costa Rican president who compared Trump to ‘Roman emperor’ says US has revoked his visa

Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias says he has had his visa to enter the United States revoked.Arias, 84, said he doesn’t know why his visa was canceled but accepts that the US has the right to make such a decision.Miguel Guillén, the secretary general of Arias’ National Liberation Party, said the former president had received an email notifying him of the move.“I don’t know if the revoking of my visa is the product of some sort of retaliation, because I say what I think (and) write what I say,” Arias told a press conference Tuesday.In recent we

‘The most powerful type of liar’: Tapper asks Anna Delvey how she views her criminal past

Tornadoes, heavy rains rip across central, southern US

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4 people sought shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and sealed their own fates

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.Ultimately, the home became their final resting place, according to new research published in April in the E-Journal of the Pompeii Excavations.During the catastrophic eruption, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the air, slowly killing most of the city’s population. Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents, eerily preserving th

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Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize ‘large areas’ of land, ordering residents to leave

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a major expansion of the military’s operation in Gaza involving the seizure of large areas of land that would be “incorporated into Israel’s security zones.”In the statement, Katz said the operation would also involve a “large-scale evacuation of Gaza’s population from combat zones,” without specifying details.Signs of the operation’s expansion are yet to be seen on the ground, although the enclave saw heavy airstrikes that have so far killed dozens people in the last 24 hours, according to local authorities, including at

Trump and Zelenskiy meet one-on-one in Vatican basilica to seek Ukraine peace

Former Costa Rican president who compared Trump to ‘Roman emperor’ says US has revoked his visa

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Israel to seize parts of Gaza as military operation expands

Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said troops were seizing an area he called the Morag Axis, a reference to a former Israeli settlement once located between the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip, some 3-4 kilometres from the southern border."Because we are now dividing the Strip and we are increasing pressure step by step so they will give us our ho

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Middle East latest: Israel is establishing a new military corridor across Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel is establishing a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas, suggesting it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacuated, from the rest of the Palestinian territory. The announcement came after Netanyahu’s defense minister said Israel would seize large areas of Gaza and add them to its so-called security zones. A wave of Israeli airstrikes overnight into Wednesday killed more than 40 Palestinians, nearly half of them women and children,

The Taliban senses an opening as it pushes for diplomatic recognition in talks with Trump administration

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Trump administration brings first terror-related case against alleged high-ranking Tren de Aragua gang member

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US Treasury's Bessent urges IMF, World Bank to refocus on core missions

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Wall Street ends higher on earnings, hopes of easing tariff tensions

U.S. stocks rebounded on Tuesday as a spate of quarterly earnings reports and hints at the de-escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions brought buyers in from the sidelines.

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Former CDC official reveals why he left after RFK Jr. took over

CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with former CDC communications director Kevin Griffis about his decision to step down after President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took over.

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Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature

President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, but that he stood by his administration’s move. The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.

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