Aya Batraoui

With these high profile cases like Harvey Weinstein and the NXIVM cult case, courts are willing to define sex. commercial sex as an exchange of sex, not just for money, but for anything of value. So it could be promises to help your career in entertainment. It could be moving up in the hierarchy in the cult. So it can be various things.

It's bringing somebody across state lines either to engage in commercial sex or any act that would be against federal law. So that could include things like trafficking, things like rape. So that encompasses more than just prostitution.

It's bringing somebody across state lines either to engage in commercial sex or any act that would be against federal law. So that could include things like trafficking, things like rape. So that encompasses more than just prostitution.

It's bringing somebody across state lines either to engage in commercial sex or any act that would be against federal law. So that could include things like trafficking, things like rape. So that encompasses more than just prostitution.

It's always been designed as an aid in the government to prosecute people that they think other people wouldn't testify against. But another sort of clever part of the prosecution plan here is to paint the underlings as victims, right? Because somebody could think, well, this is a person who likes to be close to power and

It's always been designed as an aid in the government to prosecute people that they think other people wouldn't testify against. But another sort of clever part of the prosecution plan here is to paint the underlings as victims, right? Because somebody could think, well, this is a person who likes to be close to power and

It's always been designed as an aid in the government to prosecute people that they think other people wouldn't testify against. But another sort of clever part of the prosecution plan here is to paint the underlings as victims, right? Because somebody could think, well, this is a person who likes to be close to power and

who gets a lot of money for doing bad things for Diddy, and this is sort of a bad actor here.

who gets a lot of money for doing bad things for Diddy, and this is sort of a bad actor here.

who gets a lot of money for doing bad things for Diddy, and this is sort of a bad actor here.

NPR's Aya Batraoui has more. Overnight Israeli attacks targeted three displaced families sheltering in makeshift tents, two of them in northern Gaza and one in the south. Gaza's health ministry says 23 people were killed in those separate attacks.

NPR's Aya Batraoui has more. Overnight Israeli attacks targeted three displaced families sheltering in makeshift tents, two of them in northern Gaza and one in the south. Gaza's health ministry says 23 people were killed in those separate attacks.

The Abolruz family was hit hardest, losing 10 people who burnt to death when their tent was struck in a sandy area called Moesi that Israel's military has told people to shelter in. Video from the incident shared by rescue crews shows a tent engulfed in fire.

The Abolruz family was hit hardest, losing 10 people who burnt to death when their tent was struck in a sandy area called Moesi that Israel's military has told people to shelter in. Video from the incident shared by rescue crews shows a tent engulfed in fire.

The death toll in Gaza from the past 18 months of war has surpassed 51,000 people killed by Israeli fire, a third of them children, according to the Gaza health ministry's public records. Dubai.

The death toll in Gaza from the past 18 months of war has surpassed 51,000 people killed by Israeli fire, a third of them children, according to the Gaza health ministry's public records. Dubai.

I'm not happy with him. Let him know it. And if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me.

I'm not happy with him. Let him know it. And if I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast, believe me.

The World Food Program says all of its 25 bakeries in Gaza have shut down because they've run out of flour and fuel as a result of Israel's blockade. The UN Food Agency tells NPR it's also distributing its final food parcels to the neediest families and only has food supplies to last two more weeks to support charity kitchens that provide many with their only meal of the day.

The World Food Program says all of its 25 bakeries in Gaza have shut down because they've run out of flour and fuel as a result of Israel's blockade. The UN Food Agency tells NPR it's also distributing its final food parcels to the neediest families and only has food supplies to last two more weeks to support charity kitchens that provide many with their only meal of the day.