Homicide rates down by 50 percent Over an equivalent period up to April this year the homicide rate dropped to 12 – representing a 50 percent decrease. Overall recorded crime across the north has decreased by more than 8,800 incidents ... 06/6/2024 - 4:41 am | View Link
Homicide, hate crimes and grand larceny auto rose in Brooklyn in May, stats show Violent crimes often spike in the summertime, and as the mercury rose in Brooklyn last month, so too did the crime rate in some parts of the borough, ... 06/5/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president But that’s largely a claim based on a questionable reading of statistics. The real homicide rate appears to have declined by only about 4% in six years. Julio García, a Mexico City office worker, said ... 06/3/2024 - 1:38 am | View Link
Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first woman president Mexico’s projected presidential winner Claudia Sheinbaum will become the first woman president in the country’s 200-year history. 06/3/2024 - 12:13 am | View Link
How We Reported on Homicide Investigations in St. Louis While St. Louis’ record-high homicide rate was well-known, the police department’s ability to solve those homicides had received less scrutiny. APM Reports and STLPR wanted to know what percentage of ... 06/2/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
“Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre,” CNN reports.
“The seismic move paves the way for a future in which Jones no longer owns Infowars, the influential conspiracy empire he founded in the late 1990s.
On June 6th, 1944, the Normandy invasion began.
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
A bill framed as cleaning up state election law that became a new front in the fight over ranked-choice voting won Gov. Jared Polis’ signature Thursday afternoon — but not without Polis criticizing a controversial, last-minute amendment.
The new law, passed as Senate Bill 210, makes largely technical and procedural changes to state election regulations, such as requiring officials to update financial disclosures, lowering the age for when Coloradans can preregister to vote to 15, and changing deadlines and procedures for replacement ballots.
But on the last Sunday before the legislature needed to adjourn, Rep.
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May 30, 2024
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You might think Russia would be leery of going after wives and daughters of their mobilized troops and calling them, in effect, enemies of the state would be a bad idea and they wouldn't do something so stupid. If you thought that you'd be wrong.
Source: Russian Life
On Friday, Russia's Justice Ministry added "The Path Home" (Путь Домой), a grassroots organization of family and community members who defend the rights of those who have been mobilized to fight in Russia's War on Ukraine, to its Orwellian "Foreign Agents" list.
The Path Home was a subject of a feature article in the Spring 2024 issue of Russian Life, which was translated and reprinted from Cherta (also a "foreign agent").
The Justice Ministry said that Путь Домой had worked to create a "negative image" of Russia and the Russian army and that it had called for illegal protests.
Washington — The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities.
The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to give Native Americans more local control.
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Covering those costs is “necessary to prevent a funding gap,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, joined by the three liberal justices and fellow conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.