FBI Says It Freed 168 U.S. Children In Sex-Trafficking Raids

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The authorities rounded up 281 pimps and freed 168 juveniles last week, targeting child sex-trafficking operations in more than 100 U.S. cities. Police arrested 21 pimps in Phoenix, the most of any FBI division. Other hotspots in the coordinated raids were centered in Denver, Cleveland, and Los Angeles.

As NPR reported in March, “The Justice Department estimates that each year at least 200,000 children are trafficked for sex in the U.S., and it is said to generate upward ...

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U.S. Court Releases Obama Administration’s ‘Drone Memo’

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has released a long-secret memo in which the Obama administration lays out its legal reasoning for launching a drone attack on an American citizen overseas.

The legal justification concerns the drone strike that killed Anwar Al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who the United States claims was tied to plots against the U.S. and played a key role in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

As we’ve reported, Al-Alwaki’s father sued U.S. ...

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