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OnlyFans: Women recount being held captive and forced to commit sex acts [Video]
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OnlyFans: Women recount being held captive and forced to commit sex acts [Video]

OnlyFans says it empowers content creators, particularly women, to monetize sexually explicit images and videos in a safe online environment. But a Reuters investigation found women who said they had been deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site.

More than 600 teenagers in NC hoping for adoption [Video]
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More than 600 teenagers in NC hoping for adoption [Video]

More than 2,000 children in North Carolina live in foster care, waiting and hoping for adoption, with more than 600 of them being teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Adopt US Kids says a quarter of those children are teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Now in its 20th year, Adopt US Kids has helped place more than a million kids in adopted homes.This year’s campaign focuses on teens under the tagline, “You can’t imagine the reward.” A young man adopted as a teenager shares what kids are looking for.”Wanting love, wanting to wake up in the morning and know that they’re going to lay their head down at the same place because the real big problem across the US is just not having a place to call home,” Taylor Durard said.Durard says until he was adopted, he didn’t have the capacity to dream about opportunities.”All I could think about was the easiest way to survive, the easiest way to have a roof over my head,” Durard said.Now age 20, Taylor attends college with hopes of becoming an international lawyer.”I stopped having this idea of surviving and I started thriving,” Durard said.More than 600 North Carolina teens are waiting for that same opportunity today.”When young people age out of foster care, they face far greater challenges, and it’s just more difficult for them to maneuver through life alone,” Kamilah Bunn, CEO of the National Adoption Association, said.Adoption officials say common misconceptions include the belief that you have to be married or wealthy to adopt, neither of which is true.”It’s a challenge, it’s something that we’re hoping that your viewers today take on and take the first step by visiting adoptuskids.org,” Bunn said.Adopt US Kids is a federally funded project that helps children in foster homes find permanent homes through adoption.The project also helps parents who are looking to adopt a child into their home.

Airline CEOs, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg fight over regulations [Video]
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Airline CEOs, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg fight over regulations [Video]

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg snapped back Thursday at criticism from airline executives who say the Biden administration over-regulated them, pointing out that some of those airlines are making large profits despite new passenger-protection rules.Buttigieg said the rules his department has imposed, including automatic cash refunds after flights are canceled, enjoy broad public support and will stand the test of time.The comments came after the CEOs of Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines said they hoped the government will be more pro-business when President-elect Donald Trump returns to office. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the Trump administration will be a breath of fresh air for his industry.I know that some airline CEOs have expressed hopes that the next administration will be less passenger-friendly and more corporate-friendly than this administration, Buttigieg responded during a news conference to discuss Thanksgiving travel. The passenger protections that we have put in place deservedly enjoy broad public, bipartisan support. I just don’t run into a lot of people who are against the idea that you ought to get an automatic refund without any hassle, for example.Buttigieg argued that strong passenger protections are good for the airline business.Some of these companies have been showing very healthy profits even at this new and higher level of consumer protection, demonstrating to me that these things can travel together, he said.It appeared to be a reference to Delta, the most profitable U.S. airline in recent years. Delta earned $2.6 billion in the first nine months of this year and $4.6 billion last year.The airline industry has opposed many consumer-protections written by the Biden administration, even suing the Transportation Department to kill a rule requiring greater transparency over fees that airlines charge their passengers. Airlines also oppose a current department inquiry into their frequent-flyer programs.Bastian, the Delta CEO, said he expected the Transportation Department under Trump to take a fresh look at the regulatory environment, the bureaucracy that exists in government, the level of overreach that we have seen over the last four years within our industry.Southwest Airlines CEO Robert Jordan said last week, We are hopeful for a DOT (Department of Transportation) that is maybe a little less aggressive in terms of regulating or rule-making.Buttigieg noted that his department extracted a $140 million settlement from Southwest over widespread flight cancellations in December 2022 and is conducting a similar investigation into Delta, which canceled about 7,000 flights after a technology outage in July. He suggested airline CEOs should spend more time thinking about passengers and less about their regulator.