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By Josh SanburnSeptember 19, 2016 5: stanley cup 00 AM EDTThe murder rate in the U.S. is projected to rise by about 13% this year, but almost half of that increase is due to violence in just one citymdash;Chicago.A new study released Monday by New York Universityrsquo Brennan Center projects that while crime overall in 2016 has remained virtually unchanged from last year, the murder rate is expected to rise 13.1% thanks to unprecedented violence in Chicago, which has seen more than 500 murders this year alone. Chicago is the only major U.S. city to report an increase in murders in both 2015 and 2016, which the reportrsquo authors say is related in part to an uptick in gang violence and a decline in the number of detectives on the cityrsquo police force. Violence in Chicago and Charlotte, N.C., where crime is projected to increase 17.5% this year, are essentially offsetting crime dip stanley cup s elsewhere around the U.S.Read more: Chicago Murders Have Jumped 71% So Far in 2016The reportrsquo authors project a 31.5% increase in murders nationwide from 2014 to 2016, but again that spike is attributable to just three cities: Baltimore, Chicago, and Houston. Still, the study cautions against notions of a nationwide crime wave, a claim routinely made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Crim stanley cup e in 2016 and recent years remain at all-time lows and there is no evidence of a coming crime wave for this year, says Inimai Chettiar, the director of the Brennan Centerrsquo Sxyt This Is How Quickly a Christmas Tree Fire Can Turn Into a Blazing Inferno
By Zeke J MillerMay 1, 2017 11:57 AM EDTLawmakers on Capitol Hill reached an agreement over the weekend to keep the government open through Sept. 30mdash;and the negotiator-in-chief got rolled. The deal increases funding for the military and border securitymdash;narrowly restricts its use and prevents it from being used to build Trump border wall. Where Trump request for the current fiscal year had defense and border spending, it had steep cuts for the EPA, State Department and other agencies in an effort to make it deficit-neutral. But he lost on tha yeezy t front as well. The will also increase non-defense spending, including funding retirement accounts for coal miners, expanding cancer research and providing for healthcare in Puerto Rico. It also maintains funding fo adidas campus r Planned Parenthood and funds former President Obama cancer moonshot program. It also funds subsidies under the Affordable Care af1 Act. The White House maintains that it merely living to fight another daymdash;on the FY 2018 budget negotiations that will begin in earnest in a few weeks. But accepting all of these provisions to avert a shutdown shows just how little juice Trump has on Capitol Hill right now to drive his own agenda.Trump invites Duterte to the White House. What happened at the White House Correspondents ; Dinner. And Bernie Sanders knocks Obama on Wall Street speaking fees.Here are your must reads:Must ReadsBudget Deal Reached in Congress The agreement would avoid a
By Josh SanburnSeptember 19, 2016 5: stanley cup 00 AM EDTThe murder rate in the U.S. is projected to rise by about 13% this year, but almost half of that increase is due to violence in just one citymdash;Chicago.A new study released Monday by New York Universityrsquo Brennan Center projects that while crime overall in 2016 has remained virtually unchanged from last year, the murder rate is expected to rise 13.1% thanks to unprecedented violence in Chicago, which has seen more than 500 murders this year alone. Chicago is the only major U.S. city to report an increase in murders in both 2015 and 2016, which the reportrsquo authors say is related in part to an uptick in gang violence and a decline in the number of detectives on the cityrsquo police force. Violence in Chicago and Charlotte, N.C., where crime is projected to increase 17.5% this year, are essentially offsetting crime dip stanley cup s elsewhere around the U.S.Read more: Chicago Murders Have Jumped 71% So Far in 2016The reportrsquo authors project a 31.5% increase in murders nationwide from 2014 to 2016, but again that spike is attributable to just three cities: Baltimore, Chicago, and Houston. Still, the study cautions against notions of a nationwide crime wave, a claim routinely made by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Crim stanley cup e in 2016 and recent years remain at all-time lows and there is no evidence of a coming crime wave for this year, says Inimai Chettiar, the director of the Brennan Centerrsquo Sxyt This Is How Quickly a Christmas Tree Fire Can Turn Into a Blazing Inferno
By Zeke J MillerMay 1, 2017 11:57 AM EDTLawmakers on Capitol Hill reached an agreement over the weekend to keep the government open through Sept. 30mdash;and the negotiator-in-chief got rolled. The deal increases funding for the military and border securitymdash;narrowly restricts its use and prevents it from being used to build Trump border wall. Where Trump request for the current fiscal year had defense and border spending, it had steep cuts for the EPA, State Department and other agencies in an effort to make it deficit-neutral. But he lost on tha yeezy t front as well. The will also increase non-defense spending, including funding retirement accounts for coal miners, expanding cancer research and providing for healthcare in Puerto Rico. It also maintains funding fo adidas campus r Planned Parenthood and funds former President Obama cancer moonshot program. It also funds subsidies under the Affordable Care af1 Act. The White House maintains that it merely living to fight another daymdash;on the FY 2018 budget negotiations that will begin in earnest in a few weeks. But accepting all of these provisions to avert a shutdown shows just how little juice Trump has on Capitol Hill right now to drive his own agenda.Trump invites Duterte to the White House. What happened at the White House Correspondents ; Dinner. And Bernie Sanders knocks Obama on Wall Street speaking fees.Here are your must reads:Must ReadsBudget Deal Reached in Congress The agreement would avoid a