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00:00President Trump has a fresh and urgent warning for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

00:05So how far would you go to take Maduro out of office?

00:09I don't want to say that, but...

00:11But you want to see him out?

00:13His days are numbered.

00:16Can you rule out an American ground invasion?

00:19I don't want to rule in or out. I don't talk about it.

00:22That came during a sit-down with Politico released Tuesday.

00:25Trump blames Maduro's regime for sending drug dealers and drugs into the U.S.,

00:29including members of the notorious Trende Aragua gang.

00:33Trump made a distinction between those people and regular, everyday Venezuelans,

00:38especially those living legally in the U.S., saying in part,

00:41I want the people of Venezuela, many of whom live in the United States, to be respected.

00:46I mean, they were tremendous to me. They voted for me 94% or something.

00:50And they were treated horribly by Maduro.

00:53An atrocious crime called sextortion is on the rise.

00:57Teenage boys are the major target, particularly American,

01:01and an international crime syndicate is thought to be behind it.

01:04A group called 764, which has branches in Russia, Europe, Africa, and the United States,

01:10is what Attorney General Pam Bondi calls, quote,

01:13one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises we have ever encountered.

01:18The group uses social media to gather information about a victim,

01:22their interests, places they frequent, even their friends.

01:25Then they text them, posing as, say, a local and flirtatious young woman.

01:29They spend time gaining the trust of the victims before convincing them to send inappropriate

01:34pictures of themselves. And that becomes blackmail material.

01:38And here is where it turns absolutely just heinous.

01:42They threaten to send the pictures to family and friends if they don't pay them off.

01:48The sextortion scam recently led to the suicide of a 15-year-old, Bryce Tate.

01:53But his parents say that while he pulled the trigger to end his life,

01:56it was the criminals who effectively murdered him.

01:59After getting Tate to send them explicit pictures, they demanded $500 from the teen.

02:05All he could offer them was $30. It was all the money he had.

02:08But the criminals sent a barrage of 120 messages to keep him engaged before suggesting he kill himself

02:16because, as they said, his life was already over.

02:18And unfortunately, that is just what happened.

02:22So if you have a teenager, go.

02:23Have an uncomfortable conversation with them.

02:26It may save their life.

02:29Moving on.

02:30If you are a user of Instacart, the popular grocery shopping and delivery app,

02:35you are not going to like this next story.

02:37I say that with confidence because I use it a couple times a month.

02:41And I am pissed about this.

02:43A study released on Tuesday by Consumer Reports found that customers shopping for the same item

02:48in the same store on the same day sometimes ended up paying wildly different amounts.

02:54Take, for example, a Target in North Canton, Ohio.

02:58One day in September, one customer bought a jar of Skippy peanut butter for $2.99,

03:03while another bought the same jar for $3.59.

03:06At a Safeway in Seattle, the study found five different prices for Oscar Mayer Deli Turkey

03:12that had a 23% swing from a low of $3.99 to a high of $4.89.

03:18Why?

03:19If the data doesn't just grind your gears, the response from Instacart and Target will.

03:25Instacart said that 10 retail partners, apparently including Target and Safeway,

03:29mimic in-store markup on the Instacart app to, quote, better understand consumer preferences.

03:37So put another way, they're trying to find out what customers will overspend on and what they won't.

03:42Here's a universal customer preference.

03:45None of us want to pay the most we can to make a sandwich.

03:50Target told the Post, quote,

03:52Target is not affiliated with Instacart and is not responsible for prices on the Instacart platform.

03:57Albertson, which owns Safeway, didn't respond to a request for comment.

04:02And Instacart told us that these tests are never based on personal or behavioral characteristics.

04:07So if, say, you buy a lot of eggs, the app won't jack up the price on eggs just because of it.

04:12It's like more like Russian price tag roulette.

04:15The study appears to confirm what Instacart said there,

04:18finding no evidence that it price hikes your favorite things.

04:21But the report is certain that Instacart does have the ability to do that.

04:26And in an era where affordability is king, that's a dangerous and slippery slope they're on right now.

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