Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is influenced in part by the city’s limits, said James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminology professor. The city limits are "almost completely urban" compared ...

President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and taking control of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Negative net migration is possible in 2025, but Trump "has no basis to make that claim until the US Census Bureau analyzes the 2025 data next year," Michael Clemens, George Mason University economics ...

The official U.S. government website erased sections of the U.S. Constitution without amending it. On Aug. 6, the Library of Congress’ annotated website of the U.S. Constitution was missing sections ...

El Parque Nacional de Yellowstone, ubicado principalmente en Wyoming, alberga cientos de especies de aves, peces y mamíferos como bisontes, alces, osos pardos y pumas. Pero estos animales no huyeron, ...

Right-leaning advocacy groups say Democrats benefit from people in the U.S. illegally, but not to the degree Blust said.   Studies by other research groups show that such immigrants have a small ...

A Yellowstone National Park spokesperson told PolitiFact that wildlife is not leaving Yellowstone National Park in large numbers, as TikTok users claimed.  PolitiFact found that the footage of animals ...

After a group of teenagers severely beat a prominent employee of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency in an attempted carjacking in Washington, D.C., Trump threatened a federal ...

Texas Democrats in the state legislature left for Illinois, New York and Massachusetts to deny Republicans a quorum to redistrict congressional maps. Republicans are seeking to redraw boundaries to ...

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The agency’s downward revision of 818,000 jobs was part of a standard, annual data-refinement process. It happened Aug. 21, 2024, spoiling Democrats’ mood one day before then-Vice President Kamala ...

They cited conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, and India and Pakistan, although India disputes Trump’s involvement.  But "the others strike me as major exaggerations or very ...