White extremists groups are upset over the election of Barack Obama as US President. From the LA Times: Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country. More than 200 such incidents — including cross burnings, assassination betting pools and effigies of [...]

US Government authorities are gaining steam in their ongoing battle against cybergangs. From USA Today: In what is shaping up as a breakthrough year, federal authorities have quietly cracked down on some of the biggest Internet crime rings. Secret Service and FBI operations since January have broken up a huge forum for stolen credit cards and shut down the world’s [...]

A report by the Attorney General of Texas has found that 20 percent of all human trafficking victims are found in the state. From the Guardian: Texas has become a major hub for human trafficking, state officials said yesterday while proposing a more aggressive response to what a senior government official described as “modern-day slavery”. Nearly 20% of [...]

New rules established by the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve has essentially made Internet gambling illegal as it placed restrictions on the ability of gambling sites to pay winnings. From the Wall Street Journal: The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve issued rules that bar financial companies from processing payments connected to most gambling Web [...]

The Times reports on the growing demand for tickets to the inauguration of Barack Obama. From the Times Online: There is one booming sector of the US economy into which colossal sums of cash are still being injected: the sale of tickets and hotel rooms for Barack Obama’s inauguration. The excitement over the January 20 swearing in of [...]

Former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer will not be charged for his role as a customer of a prostitution ring. From the AP (via Yahoo News): Federal prosecutors said Thursday that they will not bring criminal charges against Eliot Spitzer for his role in a prostitution scandal, removing a legal cloud that has surrounded the former governor [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports on the impact the economic downturn is causing in legal brothels in Nevada. From the LA Times: Signs of the economic free fall have cropped up in many of Nevada’s 25 or so legal brothels. The Mustang Ranch, for example, has a steady stream of customers, but the number of women vying [...]

According to experts, Rhode Island is becoming  a major hub for sex trafficking. From the Providence Journal: When most people think of slavery these days, “they think of the Civil War,” says Shanna Wells, director of the Rhode Island Commission on Women. But in fact, said Wells, slavery is occurring now in neighborhoods around Rhode Island, in the [...]

The Los Angeles Times has a seven part series on organized crime in Los Angeles and the battles fought with the LAPD. Read part one here. See more about the series here.

John Walters, US Drug Czar, stated that Mexican Drug Cartels are kidnapping and killing victims on US territory. From Bloomberg News: Mexican drug cartels, which have caused a surge in violence south of the border, are kidnapping and killing people inside U.S. territory, said John Walters, director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy. “Some of [...]