Crime is climbing at an alarming pace in towns once considered safe, revealing a troubling shift in America’s public safety landscape. When we think about settling down, safety is often at the top of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wikimedia Commons/Snopes Illustration In a September 2025 X post, conservative podcaster Tim Pool shared a chart that he suggested ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bystanders watch as Washington, D.C., police and agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration make an arrest in August.

In the wake of the assassination of the conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, posts claiming that political party membership was a predictor of political violence spread ...

Violent crime declined nationwide in 2025, but a new survey shows several US cities moving in the opposite direction, reporting increases in homicides, rapes, robberies or aggravated assaults even as ...

Major US cities overall experienced a steep drop in violent crime last year, according to a statistical analysis released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association. The analysis reflects an overall ...

Violent crime fell dramatically in 2025, in what experts expect to be the year with the sharpest drop in homicides in recorded history. The decline, detailed in two recent reports of major U.S. cities ...

Rey Chavis knew it was life or death when his phone rang one day last summer. Chavis, a lifelong Newark, New Jersey, resident who runs The Newark Community Street Team – a group of violence ...