House panel finds Secret Service rife with problems
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL There have been 143 security breaches or attempted breaches at facilities secured by the Secret Service in the last 10 years, according to a lengthy House…
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Backpage ad site: Aider of traffickers, or way to stop them?
By MARTHA IRVINE Is the huge classified ad site an abettor of sexual trafficking and exploitation, or a beacon of free expression? Does it generate crime, or help solve it?…
Argentine mayor: Pope Francis is game-changer for climate
The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ 4:25 p.m. Monica Fein came all the way from Pope…
5 plaintiffs drop pimping accusations against DSK
By PHILIPPE SOTTO and ANGELA CHARLTON A high-profile pimping case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn nearly unraveled Monday, as five of six plaintiffs in a French prostitution trial dropped their accusations against…
Funding sometimes lags for sex-trafficking victims
By DAVID CRARY As awareness of America’s sex-trafficking industry increases, state after state has enacted new laws to combat it. But while a few have backed those get-tough laws with…
2008 LAW UNEXPECTEDLY AT CENTER OF BORDER DEBATE
FILE – This June 25, 2014, file photo shows a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas.…
ZUMBA INSTRUCTOR IN PROSTITUTION BUST LEAVES JAIL
By DAVID SHARP Alexis Wright leaves the York County Jail in Alfred, Maine, on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013, after serving nearly six months of a 10-month sentence for prostitution and…
MISS WORLD DRAMA FUELED BY HOST COUNTRY INDONESIA
By MARGIE MASON In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation…