- The man responsible for creating the porn website, GirlsDoPorn, has been arrested in Spain after being placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted for creating a sex trafficking scheme. The FBI says Michael James Pratt, 40, was arrested Wednesday, December 21 in Madrid, three years after he fled while facing federal charges of sex trafficking and producing child pornography. In 2019, he and others were charged in San Diego with sex crimes after being targeted in a civil lawsuit by 22 women who claimed they were victimized by fraud and breach of contract.
- The man who shot rapper and songwriter Megan Thee Stallion with a semiautomatic handgun is found guilty of three felony counts by a Los Angeles court.
- Top nonprofit aid organizations stop operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban ordered all NGOs to stop women employees from coming into work.
- Local lawmakers in U.S. states where abortion is legal are exploring measures to restrict termination of pregnancy in their communities.