Actor Blake Lively has asked a judge to dismiss a countersuit filed against her by her “It Ends With Us” costar Justin Baldoni. Lively's lawyers wrote in papers filed Thursday ...

Authorities have taken into custody a longtime leader of a Los Angeles street gang who investigators say ran a “mafia-like” criminal enterprise that included murder, human trafficking and extortion wh ...

Then there is online condemnation of the "extortion" and appeals to market administrators to get things in order. There have been many such scandals in China in the past 10 years or so ...

A Mon Repos man was today jailed for two years after being found guilty of trying to extort $1.5m from a man with the threat that nude photos of the victim and his wife would be published.

LIMA — Peru on Monday declared a month-long state of emergency in the capital Lima to allow for the deployment of soldiers to help police crack down after a wave of killings linked to extortion. The ...

Medusa developers and affiliates — called “Medusa actors” — use a double extortion model, the advisory said. They encrypt a victim’s data and threaten to publicly release it if a ransom ...

In a brazen incident of police high-handedness, four cops forcibly took fruits from a street vendor — and when he protested, they hurled abuses and threats and seized his weighing scale. The ...

Traffic congestion in the second biggest urban centre of Sindh has reached alarming levels during the month of Ramazan, with Traffic Police personnel allegedly engaging in extortion and Eid ...

The Gujarat government has taken stern action against those who misuse the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the state to extort money from people and has registered 67 offences in this regard, said ...

Gujarat Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi informed the legislative assembly that the Surat police had registered 41 FIRs against 50 accused in just one month following allegations of extortion ...