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Marek Cherkaoui, a 21-year-old New Jersey man, was charged with cyberstalking, the FBI said, for allegedly extorting a 13-year-old girl to cut herself, by threatening to release personal information.

Allegations against the member of the nihilistic online network 764 range from extreme psychological abuse of children to promoting mass-casualty attacks.

The case is only the most recent sign of what experts describe as a shift in online nihilist tactics, from typically pursuing sextortion to advocating and planning for offline violence. ...

When Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson, two teenagers separated by more than 500 miles, carried out school shootings in late 2024 and early 2025, they were linked by a global online network that encouraged obsession with mass murder.

In a violent subculture in which the vast majority of mass shooters are white males, the two were unlikely candidates for infamy. Rupnow was a teenage girl. Henderson was Black.

But the communities that nurtured them on their paths to violence offered ironic memes and terrorist manuals promoting white supremacy, violent misogyny and homophobia. ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer seems to have overcome a major roadblock in his own party who’s holding up legislation designed to protect children from online harm.

“The majority leader and I have exchanged new text that looks like an improvement to me,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) exclusively told Raw Story at the U.S. Capitol. “I need to make sure that it protects LGBTQ teens, and, at this point, it looks like we're moving in the right direction.”

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Japan won the women's World Cup after beating United States 3-1 on penalties following a 2-2 draw in extra-time on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales talks with about a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc, according to a source familiar with the situation.