French court convicts 18 in a major trial that casts light on the deadly migrant-smuggling trade

LILLE, France (AP) — A French court found 18 people guilty Tuesday in a major migrant-smuggling trial that shed light on the lucrative but often deadly clandestine business of transporting people on flimsy boats across the perilous sea from France to the U.K. The defendants were...

Brazilian police raid criminal group suspected of smuggling migrants to the US

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Federal Police on Thursday conducted raids in six states targeting a criminal group suspected of smuggling migrants to the United States. The police said the group lured Asian migrants, primarily from Bangladesh and Nepal, to Sao Paulo International...

Election threats persist four years after far-right extremists stormed the US Capitol

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the 2020 presidential election, thousands of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters heeded his call to join a “wild” protest of his defeat. Following Trump's lies about a stolen election, hundreds of them stormed the U.S. Capitol under the banners of the Proud Boys,...

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO pleads not guilty to sex trafficking and prostitution charges

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch pleaded not guilty Friday to federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution charges. Michael Jeffries, 80, declined to comment after his lawyer entered the plea on his behalf in federal court in...

Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief Mike Jeffries arrested on federal sex trafficking charges

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries, his romantic partner and a third man were arrested Tuesday on charges of luring men into drug-laced, outlandish and coercive sex parties by dangling the promise of modeling for the retailer's once-defining beefcake ads. ...

Former Abercrombie & Fitch chief executive Mike Jeffries has been arrested on federal sex trafficking charges

Lawyers for Sean 'Diddy' Combs ask judge to release identities of his accusers

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asked a New York judge Tuesday to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers in his sex trafficking case. The lawyers wrote in a letter to a Manhattan federal court judge that the hip-hop music maker needs to know the...

Migrant deaths in New Mexico have increased tenfold

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west of...

Pregnant Philippine women arrested in Cambodia for surrogacy could be prosecuted after giving birth

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thirteen pregnant Philippine women accused of illegally acting as surrogate mothers in Cambodia after being recruited online may face prison terms after they give birth, a senior Interior Ministry official said Saturday. Interior Ministry Secretary of...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May. In a decision filed Friday, Circuit Judge William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop...