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Mar 02 2023
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Biden says he won't block Congress from overturning new D.C. crime law
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he would sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime. City officials have spent nearly two decades trying to redo Washington’s criminal laws, including redefining crimes, changing criminal justice policies and reworking how sentences should
MarketWatchMar 02 2023
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Biden tells Democratic senators he won't veto effort to rescind DC crime law
President Joe Biden told Democratic senators Thursday that he won’t veto Republican legislation to rescind a Washington, DC, crime law, West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters. The Senate has yet to vote on the measure, but it passed last month in the Republican-controlled House with the backing of 31 Democrats. Manchin said earlier this week that he would back the effort to
CNN (Online News)Feb 29 2024
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Texas will appeal ruling to block law allowing police to arrest illegal immigrants, Abbott says
Texas will appeal a ruling by a federal judge to block the state from enforcing a law that would make illegal immigration a state crime, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday, further escalating his legal fight with the Biden administration. Hours earlier, U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra of the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction to block Texas' Senate Bill 4 from taking
Fox News (Online News)Apr 14 2023
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Law-and-order candidates stumble in major cities even as crime remains top issue for voters
Violent crime is surging across America’s major cities, but voters in those same urban centers are rejecting candidates running on avowedly law-and-order platforms. The paradox of voters being concerned about rising crime, yet rejecting candidates committed to tackling violence, was on display this month in Chicago’s mayoral race. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson narrowly won a hotly
Washington TimesFeb 29 2024
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Louisiana lawmakers approve using nitrogen gas, electric chair in executions
Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as means of administering the death penalty. The legislation comes one day after the country’s most recent execution in Texas and a failed attempt in Idaho, both by lethal injection. The bill now heads
AL.comJan 05 2023
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Seattle Credit Union to shut down locations over crime, cratering foot traffic
The Seattle Credit Union is shutting down branches in the city due to crime and cratering foot traffic, the latest in a growing list of businesses that have closed locations amid safety concerns. "Over the past few years, branch foot traffic has declined 55% and 49% of transactions have moved to digital channels. The pandemic has had a major impact on transaction behavior and the adoption of
Fox BusinessJun 17 2023
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Empty offices, abandoned malls, concerns over crime: Why San Francisco, the Golden City, is losing its luster
Downtown San Francisco's fall from grace is unfolding quickly.
Landlords large and small are waving the white flag over the increasing pressures facing the city, stemming in part from the downsizing of some of the largest employers and the inertia of remote work.
In May, foot traffic to San Francisco offices was down nearly 60% compared to 2019 — the largest deficit of the major
Business InsiderFeb 28 2024
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Newport Man Accused Of Mansion Arson, Threatening Woman With A Spear
NEWPORT, RI — A Newport man is facing a slew of charges after being accused in a carjacking and of setting fire to a mansion in town very early Wednesday morning, police said in a news release. Foster Krupa, 25, is accused in the string of crimes that began around 12:14 a.m. in the 500 block of Bellevue Avenue, where police said he used a fishing spear to threaten a woman to get out of her car
Patch.comFeb 28 2023
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Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind 'Soft-on-Crime' DC Law
Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind ‘Soft-on-Crime’ DC Law An aerial view of the National Mall from behind the Capitol, looking toward the Washington Monument, on Nov. 18, 2003. (NPGallery.nps.gov) U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that
The Epoch TimesMar 01 2023
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Chicago mayoral race: Vallas and Johnson to go head to head on crime and education in runoff race
Voters will decide the direction of Chicago for the next four years in a runoff election between two Democrats, one more progressive-leaning and one leaning toward a more conservative agenda, each with different methods to address the city's problems with rising crime and declining education. Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson are advancing to the runoff election in the Chicago mayoral race,
Washington Examiner