A hotel near Venice Beach that Los Angeles bought with taxpayer money to house the homeless has sat mostly vacant since 2020 while its price tag has nearly tripled, according to a new city report.
A homeless man known only as “John” has been credited with providing crucial information that led to the identification of the suspect in the Brown University shooting.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher acknowledged that Washington, D.C. suffers from high crime and homelessness, while also conceding that liberals have failed to address the problem. Maher argued that although he disagrees with President Trump’s approach, the former president is not wrong to insist that city streets belong to law-abiding citizens, not to criminals or homeless encampments.
The assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, said she was nearly robbed by a "malodorous" individual in Washington, D.C.
A revised bill to expedite the removal of squatters from private property advanced in the North Carolina House after clearing the Rules Committee. The new version reverts to the original language of Senate Bill 55, dropping unrelated provisions that triggered a veto by Democrat Governor Josh Stein earlier this year.
More than $700 million was spent last fiscal year to tackle homelessness in the Portland region, yet the crisis only deepened, according to a new report from the research group ECOnorthwest. Multnomah County, home to Portland, saw a staggering 26% increase in homelessness from January 2024 to early 2025 despite massive public and private investment.
