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The French film Cuties, currently available on Netflix, has outraged American politicians who say it sexualizes prepubescent girls. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D–Hawaii), a former presidential contender, warns that Cuties, which depicts an 11-year-old's participation in a risqué dance troupe that flouts the values of her conservative Muslim family, "will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade." Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) goes even further, suggesting that Cuties is illegal. Whatever your take on the film's merits, Cruz presents no evidence to substantiate that claim. In a letter he sent Attorney General William Barr on...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - An Afghan man freed from the U.S. detention center for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay said Saturday that he was stripped naked and photographed the day he arrived but was not tortured during three years at the camp. He said his interrogators asked over and over: "Do you know Osama?" Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, 42, told The Associated Press that he and his brother were arrested at their home Nov. 17, 2001, by Pakistani intelligence agents and eventually taken to the U.S. military facility at Bagram, north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. After about 11 weeks there,...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - It was shortly before midnight when the knock on the door came. It was the Pakistani secret service, and the agents took Abdul Ahad's father and two uncles, all Afghans sheltering in Pakistan. One uncle was quickly released. But the whereabouts of the others remained a mystery until a postcard arrived at the family residence in Peshawar nearly six months later. The return address was Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo, Cuba.   Ahad's uncle, Badruzzaman Badr, and his father, Haji Rahim Muslim Dost, were in American custody at Guantanamo, along with several hundred suspected Taliban and...