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2013/08/04

Online And Anonymous: New Challenges To Prosecuting Sex Trafficking Plus 4 More Stories

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Online And Anonymous: New Challenges To Prosecuting Sex Trafficking
The Internet is changing the tactics used by both pimps and law enforcement. While sex traffickers can conduct business anonymously online, investigators can mine Internet data to try and catch them.
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Digital Seen Surpassing TV In Capturing Our Time
2013 is the first year in which Americans will spend more time on digital online devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets than viewing traditional TV. Still, households that subscribe to Netflix watch about the same amount of traditional TV as non-Netflix households.
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Regimental Combat Team 7 Rolls Up Its Flag In Afghanistan
At peak deployment, 20,000 Marines were stationed in Helmand Province. Now there are only 8,000, and that number will drop further as Regimental Combat Team 7 heads home. Its commander says too many Afghans are dying in fighting there, but the local troops are still better than the Taliban.
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U.S. Embassies Remain Closed Amid Terrorism Warning
More than 20 diplomatic posts, including consulates, have been temporarily shut down throughout the Middle East and the Arabian peninsula and the State Department has issued a global travel warning for Americans.
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Driver Plows Into L.A. Beachgoers, Killing One
The driver veered into a crowd on the Venice Beach boardwalk Saturday, killing one person and injuring 11 others, and leaving behind a chaotic scene strewn with bleeding victims, witnesses say.
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