Fentanyl Crackdown, Threats Of Hezbollah-Israel War, Cyber Sextortion

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to announce new financial sanctions against individuals and organizations involved in fentanyl trafficking. Amid heightened cross border attacks, the leader of Hezbollah threatens all out war if Israel conducts military operations in Lebanon. And a growing number of teens in America, especially young boys, are falling victim to sexual extortion online.

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0:00.0	The Biden administration is going after more than the fentanyl smugglers.
0:07.0	This all comes back to the money piece.
0:09.5	They want to disrupt the companies profiting our fentanyl.
0:12.4	I'm Leila Fal did it.
0:13.0	That's Michelle Martin, and this is a first from NPR News.
0:16.0	More and more teens, especially young boys in America,
0:22.0	are falling victim to sexual extortion online.
0:24.8	The victims are afraid and embarrassed and feel like they have nowhere to turn.
0:30.2	Many of these scammers are based abroad so the FBI director headed to Nigeria.
0:34.4	What did he accomplish there?
0:35.7	And as attacks intensify in the Israeli-Lebanese border, both Israel and the Lebanese
0:40.6	militia Hezbollah are warning of all out war.
0:43.1	Is this rhetoric or a future reality?
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