As online extremists push teens to self-harm, 2 senators join to propose a new law

For several years, as U.S. authorities have struggled to stop online extremist networks like "764" from pushing teens to livestream acts of violence or self-harm, including their own suicide, the Justice Department has faced what authorities and victims both say is a vexing challenge: Such coercion is not a federal crime. That could change if the Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department, have their way. ABC News has learned that, ahead of a committee hearing Tuesday on the evolving threat of online predators, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, plan to jointly introduce a first-of-its-kind piece of legislation that would explicitly criminalize the intentional coercing of minors to physically har