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Police in Romania and Hungary say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that convinced vulnerable people, many just out of foster homes, to work in slave-like conditions in Budapest.

California has done that already and paid the price — in billions of dollars spent on prisons and families broken up by long sentences.

The toxicity and polarization have broken up friendships and divided families, on a profoundly wounding level.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser thanked the security services who she said had broken up "another suspected terrorist group of militant right-wing extremists".

“I would never have broken up a marriage for it. It was nothing…It was like the kiss in the cathedral.”