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Violent crime in the U.S. plummeted last year to roughly 1.1 million violent crimes, a 9.3% drop from 2024 and the largest one-year decline on record, President Trump announced ahead of the FBI’s release of its latest crime statistics. The statistics released Friday show an 18.1% drop in the murder rate in 2025 compared to 2024. Violent crime dropped across multiple categories, with significant year-over-year decreases. Assaults fell by 7.2%, rapes declined by 7.6% and robbery was down 18.5%. Motor vehicle theft plunged by 22.7% in 2025, while burglary dropped by 15.8%, the statistics revealed. In addition, preliminary data for…

A federal judge in Indiana sentenced a former credit union branch manager to three years in prison for using her position to rip off elderly clientele. Teresa Palmer, 55, was sentenced Wednesday, including three years of supervised release after her prison term, on two counts of bank fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana said in a release. She will also have to pay more than $381,000 in restitution. Palmer worked as a branch manager at a credit union in Columbus, Indiana, 205 miles southeast of Chicago, from 2014 through 2022, federal prosecutors said. The credit…

Candace Owens acknowledged she has no direct evidence that Israel was behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk during a nationally streamed debate with online debater Andrew Wilson, even as she laid out a theory she says points to an “Israeli angle” in the case. Pressed repeatedly by Mr. Wilson, who hosts the debate show “The Crucible,” on whether she could back up months of insinuations about Israeli involvement, Ms. Owens said, “Well, I couldn’t say Israel was on the ground and shot and killed Charlie Kirk.” She said she was instead trying to establish a motive, pointing to Mr. Kirk’s…

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg should be investigated and could face impeachment over a ruling that blocked the Pentagon from labeling a Chinese biotech company a “Chinese military company,” according to Newsmax. Judge Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, granted WuXi AppTec a preliminary injunction on Aug. 7 barring the Department of Defense from enforcing the designation while the company’s lawsuit proceeds. The judge found that defense officials had repeatedly misread the evidence used to justify the decision, writing in his opinion that customers…

Oprah Winfrey defended launching the careers of Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Mehmet Oz in a recent Emmy Magazine interview, saying she believed both had valuable, practical information worth sharing.  Ms. Winfrey justified her decision to give Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz their media platforms on her hit talk show and rejected blame for their later political turns, saying their choices since “have not one thing to do with me. “Everybody has their own path in life, and it has not one thing to do with me, and I don’t have one thing to do with them,” she said in…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said reports of poor living conditions and food shortages aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier were “completely misrepresented,” even as lawmakers demand answers about the well-being of the sailors and Marines who have been continuously at sea for more than seven months. Speaking to reporters in Panama on Thursday, Mr. Hegseth acknowledged that some deployments last longer and are tougher than others. “We make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain, has everything that we can provide them at every single moment,” he said. “I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors…

Broken engine parts shattered a window on a Ryanair flight shortly after takeoff in Greece last month, causing a man’s head to be sucked through the opening before his fellow passengers pulled him back inside, U.S. investigators said Thursday. A fan blade in the Boeing 737-800’s right engine broke loose, sending fragments through the fuselage, according to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board. The July 10 incident happened after the flight departed the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. Investigators found bird remains inside the engine, suggesting the plane may have struck birds during takeoff, though they haven’t…

A court order that struck down regulations on firearm suppressors and certain guns took effect Thursday after the U.S. Justice Department did not file an appeal before a seven-day deadline set by a federal judge in Texas. The ruling allows people to purchase silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and certain other firearms without registration, while also removing an extra layer of background checks. The order benefits parties that brought the lawsuit, including some dealers based outside northern Texas, but it is not a national injunction. Advocates say there are similar challenges in federal courts in other states. Separately, some states…

LAS VEGAS — A jury of 6 men and 10 women was selected Thursday to hear the case against an ex-gang leader accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s killing nearly 30 years ago in one of hip-hop’s most pivotal moments. Opening statements at the murder trial in Las Vegas are expected to begin Monday. Family members and fans of the legendary rapper have been waiting for decades to learn the truth behind the 1996 drive-by shooting that left Shakur dead at the height of his career. Shakur was just 25 when he was shot near the Las Vegas Strip at a time…

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — White House border czar Tom Homan defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks, calling them a tool to help officers end confrontations without using deadly force. “It’s another device to help someone get compliant when they are not,” Homan said Thursday in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends.” “You can’t just go from 0 to 100, right, and the first thing you go for is lethal force.” Homan’s remarks were the Trump administration’s first public defense of ICE’s plan to spend up to $20 million to…