Anthony Carter has spent his entire life in one of Chicago’s most dangerous areas. He now works every day to make his community, known to many as O Block, feel safer. But he doesn’t want President Donald Trump’s help. “It’s within us to stop the violence,” Carter said. “President Trump couldn’t do nothing about that.” Trump has turned his attention …
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Seattle police arrested a man in connection with the home invasion robbery of Macklemore’s residence earlier this summer, when bear spray-wielding attackers stole the rapper’s Seattle Seahawks and Sounders championship rings, authorities said Friday. King County’s Valley SWAT team raided the suspect’s home in nearby Renton on Aug. 21, leading to the arrest of 29-year-old Patrick Maisonet, officials said. Maisonet …
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Anthony Carter has spent his entire life in one of Chicago’s most dangerous areas. He now works every day to make his community, known to many as O Block, feel safer. But he doesn’t want President Donald Trump’s help. “It’s within us to stop the violence,” Carter says. “President Trump couldn’t do nothing about that.” Trump has turned his attention …
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Baseball fans will see the pun straight away; I had to look it up. The non-batting runner, having only made it a certain way around the field, gets tagged out by a fielder trying to “steal”, or sneak up, on a base from the one behind. As far as the non-metaphorical meaning goes, no one in this movie is actually …
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Nobody was an action film that took audiences by surprise, as few would have expected that Bob Odenkirk was capable of being the star of an assassin thriller in the vein of John Wick. While it was going to be hard for a sequel to live up to the fanfare that the first film received, Universal Pictures made a smart …
Read More »As President Donald Trump declared Washington, D.C., a crime-ridden wasteland in need of federal intervention this week and threatened similar federal interventions in other Black-led cities, several mayors compared notes. The president’s characterization of their cities contradicts what they began noticing last year: that they were seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era spike. In some cases the …
Read More »SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native American pueblo communities. The emergency declaration by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham makes $750,000 available as local governments and tribal officials in Rio Arriba County call for …
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Tempers flared and at least one punch was thrown during the second joint practice between the Jets and Giants on Wednesday. Will McDonald tackled Tyrone Tracy Jr. to the ground, which did not sit well with the Giants offensive line. Greg Van Roten and McDonald got tangled up and went to the ground with Van Roten, a former Jet, on …
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The United States announced today that it has taken into custody 26 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal and state criminal charges from around the country, including charges relating to drug-trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, illegal use of firearms, human smuggling, money laundering, the murder of a sheriffs’ deputy, and other crimes. Among the fugitives taken into U.S. custody today …
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President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed that the murder rate in Washington, D.C., “reached the highest rate probably ever” in 2023, and he ignored a decline in murders since then to justify a federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement. In declaring a “crime emergency” in Washington, Trump wrongly claimed at an Aug. 11 press conference, “Murders in 2023 reached the …
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