U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding Police Brutality in Brazil
With U.S.-supplied weapons and training, Brazil’s militarized police fuel a cycle of violence that claims thousands of lives each year while destabilizing the region.
With U.S.-supplied weapons and training, Brazil’s militarized police fuel a cycle of violence that claims thousands of lives each year while destabilizing the region.
U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by historical precedent.
The charges, which could send Colin Gray to prison for the rest of his life, are part of a broader attempt to criminalize parental failures.
While it is not true that "homicides are skyrocketing," recent trends in other kinds of violent crime are murkier.
Few problems can be resolved by grandstanding politicians threatening new penalties.
When civilians are the targets, terrorists’ grievances don’t matter; it’s time to hunt the perpetrators.
Violent crime fell by 3 percent last year, the agency estimates. That includes a 12 percent drop in homicides.
Trump and Vance should stop blaming Democratic rhetoric (and vice versa).
Diddy’s indictment turns the typical sex trafficking charge on its head.
Politicians and partisan fanatics spur each other to extremes in what they see as a struggle against evil.
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According to Trump's preferred source, violent victimizations fell slightly in 2023, although the difference was not statistically significant.
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Matthew Farwell allegedly murdered a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child. Their relationship is said to have began when she was 15. He was 27.
María Oropeza's arrest during a livestream highlights the dangers faced by opposition leaders in Venezuela and the regime's relentless efforts to silence dissent.
Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.
The 2024 Democratic platform devotes five paragraphs to firearm restrictions but does not even allude to the Second Amendment.
Although his campaign rejects the FBI's numbers as "garbage," they are broadly consistent with evidence from other sources.
Trump's campaign dismisses recent crime data while glossing over the fact that he was president during the huge homicide spike in 2020.
Politics have become too high stakes for Americans to back away from the brink.
The decision shows that the Supreme Court has forced judges who like gun control to respect the Second Amendment anyway.
An Illinois sheriff's deputy with a spotty employment history shot Sonya Massey in the face after responding to her report of a prowler.
The most notable recent increase happened on the former president's watch, when homicides spiked.
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The attack deserves condemnation. But it should not obscure the evil of Trump himself, including his role in promoting political violence.
The former president was rushed off stage after gunfire at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The Court says "a credible threat" justifies a ban on gun possession but does not address situations where there is no such judicial finding.
Australia’s Prohibition-style attempts to abolish nicotine use have predictably led to a new drug war being fought over a legal substance.
"I'm shaking and crying because I'm like, 'Oh my god, I'm gonna get shot,'" one student told a Vermont newspaper. "It felt so real."
Judge Carlton Reeves ripped apart the legal doctrine in his latest decision on the matter.
Without providing any evidence, the paper says "loosened restrictions on firearms" contributed to gun violence in Columbus.
Dexter Taylor is now a "violent felon," even though his hobby was victimless.
The dominant media narrative has obscured much of the nuance here.
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
Vincent Yakaitis is unfortunately not the first such defendant. He will also not be the last.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
Angela Prichard was murdered after Bellevue police officers repeatedly refused to enforce a restraining order against her abusive husband.
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Under a legal theory endorsed by the 5th Circuit, Martin Luther King Jr. could have been liable for other people’s violence.
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Legislators are taking a page from constitutionally dubious state laws that make carry permits highly impractical to use.
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After blaming the state's bathroom law, The New York Times says "it has never been clear" whether gender identity figured in the fight that preceded Nex Benedict's death.
Our research was cited in a new book on “white rural rage.” But the authors got the research wrong.
"Nobody's ever reported that to me," Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said after his deputies admitted to brutalizing innocent people.
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