The FBI made a messaging app to lure criminals. It worked.

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<p>Hundreds of people in more than a dozen countries have been arrested in a vast operation targeting organized crime. Suspects thought they were messaging via an encrypted app. <a href="https://apple.news/AGAG4qHFuQeqHWseY3eiFOA?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> reports on how it was actually a digital trap laid by the FBI and the Australian Federal Police.</p> <p><a href="https://apple.news/AaZm4SPWZQTSUMQ0hHhdcLQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NBC News</a> reports on the new Senate report on the Capitol insurrection.</p> <p>Many businesses struggling to find adult workers are hiring more teenagers. The <a href="https://apple.news/AT1CP0WEAR9u86egu-KB_gQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Wall Street Journal</a> looks at the young people making good money in the current job market.</p> <p>The U.S. relies on college sports as a key way to identify and develop athletes for the Summer Olympics. But the <a href="https://apple.news/AT6uDWrNSTdmxdL-4qCwNbw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">L.A. Times</a> explains that athletic-department budget cuts could affect America&rsquo;s ability to rack up medals at future games.</p> <p>In Southern California, feral peacocks are driving some residents crazy with their earsplitting mating calls. The <a href="https://apple.news/A4eLuriT5T-efTtIxxWIM-Q?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> reports on how the issue of what to do about them is dividing communities.</p>