FBI Data Shows Steepest Crime Decline on Record

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Donald Trump is headed to Long Island Friday to make a case midterm voters can feel in their own neighborhoods: the country is getting safer, and he wants credit for it. New FBI figures, confirmed to the White House ahead of Friday’s official release, show the steepest one-year drop in violent crime the bureau has ever recorded. The murder rate fell 18.1 percent from a year earlier. Robbery was down 18.5 percent, rape 7.6 percent, aggravated assault 7.2 percent. Property crime told the same story — motor vehicle theft down 22.7 percent, burglary down 15.8 percent. The FBI’s full 2025

The Hate-Watchers Who Got Caught Paying the Haters

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For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center told America who the extremists were. Now federal prosecutors say the SPLC was paying some of them. Heidi Beirich, once one of the group’s most senior officials, was arrested Wednesday. Prosecutors say she helped run a scheme that funneled donor money — millions of dollars, raised to fight hate — into the pockets of the very people spreading it. Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. The SPLC is charged

Wisconsin Dems Dodge a Holiday-Hating Socialist

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Wisconsin Democrats just got a plot twist nobody saw coming. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley pulled off a squeaker of a win over Francesca Hong in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for governor, overtaking a candidate who’d been sitting on a double-digit lead in the polls right up until voters actually showed up. The final margin: 3,200 votes out of 787,000 cast. That’s four-tenths of one percentage point — the kind of gap that keeps campaign staffers up at night. Hong, a 37-year-old state legislator and self-described Democratic Socialist, could have demanded a recount. Wisconsin law let her, since she lost by

Abdul El-Sayed Has a Michigan Problem

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Abdul El-Sayed would like to be the next senator from Michigan. That means, among other things, asking Michigan voters to believe the man he is today matters more than the things he said a few years ago. That may be a harder sell than he expected. Old videos and podcasts have resurfaced in which El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee, took aim at some fairly familiar pieces of American life: Fourth of July fireworks, the Second Amendment, the southern border and even football. None of these comments, taken alone, is likely to decide a Senate race. Taken together, though, they begin to

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