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U.S. and international law enforcement officials arrested dozens of suspects around the world in what they called the largest ever such action against online credit card scammers.

NPR has not been having the best public relations year. And a new video recorded by James O'Keefe (he of undercover dressed-as-a-pimp fame) will not change that pattern. A sting operation has two operatives pretending to be wealthy Muslim donors who wish to help NPR in case Republicans have their way with the whole push for defunding.

F.B.I. officials said that the Somali-born suspect thought he was detonating a car bomb in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland on Friday night, when in fact he had been set up in a sting operation.