Preliminary FBI data shows drop in violent crime for 2024 so far The data shows steep drops in every category of violent crime in every region in the first three months of 2024 compared to a year earlier, continuing a downward trend since a coronavirus pandemic ... 06/11/2024 - 11:34 am | View Link
Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply After Pandemic Surge The return of gang-violence prevention programs has helped ease the number of shootings, while domestic killings have fallen as families are no longer stuck at home together. Police are also more ... 06/11/2024 - 10:41 am | View Link
New FBI stats show 'historic' declines in violent crime rate, with murder showing sharpest drop The latest FBI statistics point to a "historic" drop in crime in the first quarter of this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland says.And this, after a year in which the murder rate fell at one the ... 06/11/2024 - 10:39 am | View Link
FBI Stats Show Plunge in Violent Crime, But There's a Catch New data shows a significant decrease in homicides and other violent crimes in the first quarter. Is it accurate? 06/11/2024 - 8:55 am | View Link
FBI data show sharp drop in violent crime but steepness is questioned The Biden administration is taking credit for a sharp drop in violent crime though one expert says the declines are likely overstated. 06/11/2024 - 7:46 am | View Link
Here's what all 34 felony counts in Trump's hush money trial mean The jurors said they unanimously agreed that Trump falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to influence the outcome of the 2016 ... 06/10/2024 - 11:00 am | View Website
What are 34 felony charges against Trump, and what do they reveal? Last week, we learned Donald Trump had been charged with a crime. Now we know the former US president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records. Although falsifying records are usually... 06/10/2024 - 5:17 am | View Website
Keeping Track of the Trump Criminal Cases Here is a guide to the major criminal cases involving the former president. Latest development May 30. Former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records, related... 06/9/2024 - 2:15 pm | View Website
What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty ... Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Here's what to know about the charges. 05/31/2024 - 11:27 am | View Website
Donald Trump becomes first US president convicted of a crime NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment ... 05/31/2024 - 6:40 am | View Website
CAIRO — A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, the U. N.’s International Organization for Migration said Tuesday.
The boat was carrying some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Gulf of Aden when it sank Monday off Yemen’s southern coast, the IOM said in a statement.
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It said search efforts were continuing and so far 71 had been rescued.
The U. N. human rights office has expressed concern about possible war crimes committed by both Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups during a Saturday raid into Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp that rescued four Israeli hostages and killed hundreds of Palestinians.
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“It was catastrophic, the way that this was carried out in that civilians—again—were caught smack bang in the middle of this,” Jeremy Laurence, a spokesperson for the U.
A fire has killed around 1,000 caged animals at Bangkok’s Chatuchak Weekend Market, one of South East Asia’s largest open air markets.
The early morning blaze broke out at around 4:10 a.m. local time and engulfed more than 100 pet shops in the famous market, according to Bangkok officials. Caged animals including dogs, birds, cats, and snakes were reportedly burned to death in their cages.
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No human casualties have been reported as a result of the fire.
KYIV, Ukraine — The U. S. has removed restrictions on the transfer of American weapons and training to a high-profile Ukrainian military unit with a checkered past, the State Department said on Tuesday.
The move will help the Azov Brigade, among Ukraine’s most effective and popular fighting units, move beyond its reputation as a far-right movement, a perception its commanders have been trying to dispel as Russian propaganda.
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The State Department applied the Leahy vetting process to the Azov Brigade, which has been absorbed into Ukraine’s National Guard as the 12th Special Forces Brigade.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it has offered compensation to passengers of a flight that hit extreme turbulence last month, in a rare case that killed one passenger and injured dozens.
The Being 777 jet, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew from London to Singapore, ran into sudden turbulence over the Irrawaddy basin on May 20, hurling people and items around the cabin.
SEOUL — South Korean soldiers fired warning shots after North Korean troops briefly violated the tense border earlier this week, South Korea’s military said Tuesday, as the rivals are embroiled in Cold War-style campaigns like balloon launches and propaganda broadcasts.
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Bloodshed and violent confrontations have occasionally occurred at the Koreas’ heavily fortified border, called the Demilitarized Zone.