Thirty minutes south of Portland, as rain pattered down from gray skies, Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican of Oregon, was at a wedding venue railing against Democrats in her state for decriminalizing hard drugs and accusing them of failing to support local law enforcement. Progressive experiments with policing, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer told …
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During the pandemic, there was a rise in violent crime. But by 2023, violent crime was near its lowest level in over 50 years. But that year, Gallup found that 77 percent of Americans said they believed that crime was increasing. I hear that in my everyday life. People talk …
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Weeks after the mass shooting of 18 members of one family in South Africa left a town reeling, prosecutors charged one man with the murders on Wednesday. The shooting, which took place on Sept. 28 in a rural village in the Eastern Cape Province, brought to the fore an increasing …
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“I do not want to go to Brazil.” To National Football League executives, who have worked for years to bring Friday night’s opening-weekend game to Brazil, the comment from Philadelphia Eagles player Darius Slay on his podcast last week had already gotten off to a bad start. Then it got …
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