The data is unambiguous. Homicides peaked in 2021 at 26,031 nationwide, according to the CDC. By 2024, they had fallen to 20,162, roughly the pre-pandemic level. Jeff Asher, the crime…
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Trump sat for an interview with Newsmax's Wayne Allen Root just after midnight Tuesday, and Root handed him the playbook. You have the right, Root said, to declare a national…
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Six months. That is how long Donald Trump has been launching America's long-range missiles and interceptors at Iran in a war of choice that nobody voted for, nobody asked for,…
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The Roberts Court's Religion Docket Is a Blueprint for Theocratic Capture
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The path from democracy is much shorter than the path to it. And we are sprinting down it.
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Bodycams Caught ICE Agents Calling Latinos "Tonks." The Supreme Court Said That's Fine.
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President Donald Trump launched a war against Iran on February 28 because, he said, 50 years of sanctions had failed. Five months and countless bombs later, he is betting that…
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Arizona's Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs has chosen John Giles, a former Republican and current independent, as her running mate for lieutenant governor, signaling a bold new strategy for the state's…
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When the Trump administration wanted to look tough on cartels, it didn't go after the Sinaloa cartel's bank accounts in the Caymans. It went after Evangelina Ornelas's grocery store in…
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More than ten customers have signed up to get high-speed access to President Trump's Truth Social posts by paying as much as $100,000 a month. This is not a rumor.…
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