• Associated Press

    As Japan's yakuza weakens, police focus shifts to unorganized crime hired via social media

    A senior member of yakuza was arrested for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards near Tokyo in April, a case seen as an example of Japanese organized crime groups struggling with declining membership. Police agents who were busy dealing with thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have noticed something new: unorganized and loosely connected groups they believe are behind a series of crimes once dominated by yakuza. The Tokyo metropolitan police are currently investigating six suspects in their 20s and 30s, most of them without connections to one another, who are believed to have been hired on social media to kill, transport and burn the bodies of an older couple at a riverbank of Nasu, 200 kilometers (124 miles) northeast of Tokyo.

  • Business Insider

    The meme-stock rally is dead as reality sets in amid GameStop's warning on revenue and plan to sell 45 million shares

    GameStop shares on Friday were back to levels they were trading at last week, having erased nearly all of the peak intra-week gain of 271%.

  • The Daily Beast

    Bridget and Christian Ziegler ‘Prowled’ Florida Bars for Women, Police Memo Says

    Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Getty ImagesNewly released documents say Moms For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler and her GOP chairman husband went “on the prowl” in Sarasota bars to find women to have sex with.Text messages quoted in a Sarasota Police Department (SPD) memo that was obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed how Ziegler sent her husband, Christian, hunting for a third sexual partner at local bars and directed him to send photos of possible hits. She allegedly told him to pretend