Opinion | Trump Claims a Venezuelan Gang Is Invading the United States. He’s Wrong.
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Opinion | Trump Claims a Venezuelan Gang Is Invading the United States. He’s Wrong.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration last month deported scores of Venezuelan men to El Salvador, sending them to a maximum-security prison for gang members. The administration claimed that most of the men were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, a group that, according…

In Mexico, a Grisly Discovery of Piles of Shoes, Ovens and Human Remains
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In Mexico, a Grisly Discovery of Piles of Shoes, Ovens and Human Remains

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they arrived at an abandoned ranch outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three underground…

Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing
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Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines There are usually no international flights out of the airport in Mae Sot, a town on Thailand’s border with Myanmar. But in recent days, hundreds of people here boarded direct flights back home to China. They had been rescued from Myanmar, where they…

Electric Shocks and Tied Crucifixion-Style: The Life of a Scam-Mill Worker
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Electric Shocks and Tied Crucifixion-Style: The Life of a Scam-Mill Worker

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The job advertisement promised a fat salary in a modern metropolis. Fisher, a 27-year-old Ethiopian who had studied electrical engineering, convinced his father to sell the family farmland — where generations had grown mangoes, avocados and teff, an ancient grain — to pay…

Brazil’s Mafia-Run Animal Lottery Was Invincible. Online Games Changed That.
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Brazil’s Mafia-Run Animal Lottery Was Invincible. Online Games Changed That.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Taiza Carine da Costa got her first taste of gambling when she was just 9. Growing up in the rundown fringes of Rio de Janeiro, Ms. Costa’s godparents would send her down the block, a few coins in hand, to bet on a…

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum:’ America’s first gangster
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum:’ America’s first gangster

They were branded the “Jewish Mafia,” or the “Kosher Nostra” — four violent street-tough Jews with lots of criminal smarts who dominated tabloid headlines and the wanted posters that festooned the bulletin boards of US post offices across the land: The Lower East Side of Mrs. Mandelbaum’s era was a…