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This story may contain details that are disturbing. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. A Mississippi father who lost his son to a growing "sextortion" trend targeting teen boys issued a stark warning for parents on their children's social media access as the nationwide debate over cyber safety takes center stage.  Brian Montgomery lost his 16-year-old son Walker to the dangerous trend back in December, after he took his own life when he was extorted with explicit imagery.  Montgomery joined "America's Newsroom" to discuss the tragedy and how parents can take action to prevent the same thing from happening to their children.  'OUTNUMBERED' GOES OFF ON SCHOOL DISTRICT AFTER BULLIED TEEN'S SUICIDE: ‘THESE PEOPLE DID NOTHING’ "Don't allow your children by themselves in a bedroom, in a bathroom, anywhere with these phones without supervision, becaus...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she "otherwise loved very much" — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name. He responded that his granddaughter "talked too much." Now 50, and an elected official in a city far from India, Sawant has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws. If her fellow council members approve it Tuesday, Seattle will become the first city in the United States to specifically outlaw caste discrimination. In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one’s birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim and British rule, the suffering of those at the bottom of the...

The body of missing British mother Nicola Bulley was identified by UK police on Monday, weeks after she disappeared while walking her dog in northern England in January.

Despite the implosion of FTX and projections of a cryptocurrency winter, the metaverse real estate market is expected to grow by $5.37 billion by 2026.

The work of two photographers is joined to create a powerful meditation on race and poverty in the South.

US Sen. Sherrod Brown echoed officials' beliefs Sunday that the water and air are safe in East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying hazardous materials derailed there earlier this month, but he acknowledged that residents are "right to be skeptical."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken bat down the idea that the United States is in a "Cold War" with China, claiming that relations between Washington and Beijing can’t be reduced to a "bumper sticker." "This is obviously among the most consequential but also complex relationships that we have and probably the same can be said by many other countries around the world, and of course, we’re in a vigorous competition with China and that’s something we’re not at all shy about," Blinken told NBC host Chuck Todd during an interview aired on "Meet the Press" Sunday.  Todd, noting how the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Guam, the Philippines and Australia, helping Japan change its national security posture and continuing to arm Taiwan, challenged Blinken, "If it's not a Cold War, what is it?" "We intend to compete very vigorously. We’ve taken important steps over the last couple of years to invest in ourselves so that we ...