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Murders Down Roughly 20% In 2025, FBI Preliminary Data Show

Murders Down Roughly 20% In 2025, FBI Preliminary Data Show

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI on Sunday published an early glimpse at annual crime data, releasing preliminary 2025 data alongside first-quarter 2026 numbers that together show that violent crime has dropped sharply. FBI personnel enter a building in Portsmouth, Va., on May 6, 2026. Peter Casey/The Virginian-Pilot via AP The figures, typically released at the end of summer, marked the first time the bureau furnished a preview of annual crime tallies before the end of the following spring.  The first-quarter 2026 numbers, drawn from 67 major law enforcement agencies, showed homicides fell 17.7 percent against the same period last year, robberies fell 20.4 percent, reported rapes declined 7.2 percent, and aggravated assaults dropped 4.8 percent. Declines appeared in every region of the country, according to the bureau.  Among cities registering the steepest homicide reductions from January through March are Washington, D.C., down 64.7 percent; Philadelphia, 54 percent; San Diego, 50 percent; Houston, 36.4 percent; Memphis, Tennessee, 34.4 percent; New York City, 31.7 percent; and Los Angeles, 23 percent. …

US Spent Million on Roughly 300 Deportations to Third Nations, Democratic Report Finds

US Spent $40 Million on Roughly 300 Deportations to Third Nations, Democratic Report Finds

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own as immigration officials expanded the practice over the last year to carry out President Donald Trump’s goals of quickly removing immigrants from the U.S., according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Democrats on the Foreign Relations panel, led by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, criticize the practice of third country deportations as “costly, wasteful and poorly monitored” in the report and call for “serious scrutiny of a policy that now operates largely in the dark.” The State Department, which oversees the negotiations to implement the programs, has stood behind the practice of third country deportations and defended it as a part of Trump’s campaign to end illegal immigration. “We’ve arrested people that are members of gangs and we’ve deported them. We don’t want gang members in our country,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded when asked about some of the third country deportations at a Senate …

‘Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers’: a new way to measure ice

‘Roughly 109.5 golden retrievers’: a new way to measure ice

Published by skeptic

Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Raining cats and dogs A new unit of measurement has dropped – and in this case the slang verb is doubly appropriate. Reader Alan Baker came across a weather report for CBS News in Austin, Texas, warning of freezing rain. Meteorologist Avery Tomasco noted that central Texas could receive up to half an inch of freezing rain, which would of course turn to ice on landing. To convey how serious that was, Tomasco explained that “ice is HEAVY” and can easily cause tree branches to fall into power lines (for instance). Even just a half inch of ice, he explained, was a big deal. “On a 30ft wide tree, that adds up to more than 7,000 pounds of ice, or roughly 109.5 fully-grown golden retrievers,” he wrote. That is, indeed, a large quantity of affectionate, fluffy dogs. Feedback isn’t sure whether this image of more than 100 …