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Murder Rate Hits Lowest Level Since 1955 as Violent Crime Plummets Across America
America hasn't been this safe in nearly 70 years.
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29 States Want $200 Billion from Zuckerberg for Hooking Kids on Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg could be staring down a $200 billion penalty as a coalition of 29 states takes Meta to trial over allegations the tech giant deliberately addicted America's children to its platforms.
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Bidding Wars Erupt Over Abandoned Homes as Americans Flee Unaffordable Cities
A plumber just paid $45,000 for a boarded-up row house with a peeling facade in Baltimore, after competitors doubled what he'd planned to spend. That's the new reality in a city once synonymous with urban decay.
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Who Took America’s Classroom?
Federal law forbids Washington from directing what American children are taught. Two private associations wrote the standards anyway, a foundation paid for them, and $4.35 billion bought the states' consent. In 2015 Congress went back and outlawed the mechanism by name.
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Intelligence Community Blocked Election Report for Fear of ‘Deep State’ Label
Newly declassified documents reveal that the National Security Agency (NSA) blocked the release of a report on U.S. elections due to concerns that it would be labeled as part of the "deep state."
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University of Michigan Will Hide Freshman Grades to Fight ‘Inequity’
The University of Michigan is preparing to shield first-semester grades from student transcripts, a move internal documents reveal is designed to address racial "credit gaps" and what administrators call "intersectional patterns of inequity" in academic performance.
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Fake Polling Firm Admits It Manipulated Political Data in ‘Social Experiment’ Benefiting Democrats
A so-called polling operation that projected comfortable leads for two Democrat candidates has now confessed the entire thing was fabricated, calling it a "short-term social experiment" designed to see how easily fake data could spread through American political media.
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‘Outstanding Refugee’ Involved in Fraud Scheme
An immigrant living in Minnesota who received an "outstanding refugee" award from the state has been charged with Medicaid fraud in a case linked to a sex trafficking case.
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Tina Peters Offered California Election Job
Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters has been offered a job in Shasta County, California, following her release from prison surrounding an election security case.
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DOJ Deploys 1,000 Election Monitors to Safeguard November Midterms
The Department of Justice is training roughly 1,000 poll monitors to fan out across the country this November, a massive federal effort to ensure the upcoming midterm elections are conducted fairly and free from fraud.
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Melania Trump’s Secret Letter to Putin Has Now Brought 34 Children Home
A single letter to Vladimir Putin changed everything.
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Rubio Sanctions ICC President
The United States has imposed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge who also heads the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Feds Launch Civil Rights Probes Into Schools That Punished Kids Differently Based on Race
The department announced Tuesday it has opened Title VI civil rights investigations into school districts in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alleging administrators directed staff to factor race into disciplinary decisions.
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Ten Commandments Go to Supreme Court
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court ruling that upheld a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.
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Obama Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to Save Taxpayers Billions on FBI Headquarters
An Obama-appointed federal judge has sided with Maryland Democrats to block the Trump administration's cost-saving plan for relocating FBI headquarters, forcing taxpayers to potentially foot a nearly $5 billion bill for a facility that wouldn't open until 2035.
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30 Million Americans Could Get Gun Rights Back Under New Trump Rule
For more than three decades, a congressional funding ban has blocked Americans from petitioning the federal government to restore their Second Amendment rights.
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NC Governor Blocks Bill That Would Remove Dead Voters From Rolls
North Carolina's governor just killed a bill that would cross-check voter rolls against death records, and Republicans say they have the votes to override him.
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DOJ Aims to Reinstate Charges Against Abrego Garcia
The Trump administration is pursuing the reinstatement of charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after a district court determined his prosecution to be vindictive.
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No Negotiations with Iran Taking Place
President Trump shared that any negotiations and peace talks with Iran have ceased.
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Disney Sues FCC After Broadcast License Threats
The Walt Disney Co. and ABC have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), aiming to stop an early license renewal process.