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Land of the Free? Fewer Americans Agree

For the third year in a row, Americans are less satisfied with their personal freedom than the rest of the world, including their peers in other wealthy, market-based economies. In 2024, 72% of Americans said they were satisfied with their freedom to choose what they do with their lives, in line with where this sentiment has been since it plummeted in 2022. The 2024 level remains well below the 2007-2021 U.S. average of 83%.

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GirlsDoPorn boss, once one of FBI’s 10 most wanted, pleads guilty to sex trafficking

PervsDoPrison. The fiendish founder of GirlsDoPorn — who was once on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list — has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking after three years on the run. Michael Pratt, 42, either tricked or forced hundreds of women — mostly teenagers — to appear in pornographic videos, usually by pretending it was a private casting call for lucrative modelling gigs, according to the Department of Justice. He fled the United States in 2019 and hid out in Spain for more than three...

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Porn site owner pleads guilty to sex trafficking in San Diego

Michael Pratt, the mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn website and an international fugitive for three years, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking in federal court in San Diego. Pratt pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to sex trafficking from 2012 to 2019 and sex trafficking a victim in 2012 of the superseding indictment, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.

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Founder of San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn pleads guilty to sex-trafficking conspiracy

The mastermind of a vast conspiracy that tricked and coerced young women into filming pornographic videos that were posted online without their consent pleaded guilty Thursday in San Diego federal court to two sex-trafficking charges that could see him sentenced to life in prison. Michael James Pratt, the 42-year-old New Zealand citizen who created and operated the website GirlsDoPorn, pleaded guilty to one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of...

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Proud Boys sue US government for $100m over Jan 6 prosecutions

Five leaders of far-right group the Proud Boys, who were convicted in connection with the 6 January, 2021 Capitol riot, have sued the US government for $100 million (£74m), claiming their rights were violated during their prosecution. The five were convicted of plotting and taking part in the riot to overturn US President Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 election. Trump pardoned or commuted their sentences earlier this year.