Jump in U.S. murder rate biggest in 60 years
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FBI data is expected to show murders in the U.S. increased by nearly 30% in 2020—the highest annual spike in at least 60 years, according to news reports. The agency’s Uniform Crime Report is set to be released Monday, but preliminary data temporarily uploaded to the FBI website showed murders last year went up nearly 29% compared to 2019, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. If the data remains unchanged, it will reportedly be the largest single-year increase since the 12.7% change in 1968. Around 21,500 murders were reportedly tallied last year, which is approximately 5,000 more than in 2019—but the overall murder rate is still
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Jump in U.S. murder rate biggest in 60 years
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FBI data is expected to show murders in the U.S. increased by nearly 30% in 2020—the highest annual spike in at least 60 years, according to news reports. The agency’s Uniform Crime Report is set to be released Monday, but preliminary data temporarily uploaded to the FBI website showed murders last year went up nearly 29% compared to 2019, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. If the data remains unchanged, it will reportedly be the largest single-year increase since the 12.7% change in 1968. Around 21,500 murders were reportedly tallied last year, which is approximately 5,000 more than in 2019—but the overall murder rate is still
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Biden leaves Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
And on Wednesday he didn’t bother to send a SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE to honor our Korean war heroes or greet the South Korean leader in Hawaii.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in traveled to Hawaii on Wednesday to repatriate the remains of American service members. Not a single representative from the Biden Administration showed up.
They hate this country, its heroes, its values and traditions and want it destroyed. [Tweets]
According to the attached news article these were South Korean citizens who fought alongside US soldiers and lived in Hawaii.
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Brand’: ‘Sucking Up’
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US policy is to not punish crime in the name of "equity" so that one day we'll have Safe And Sane Gun Control. Sure, people die, but that's a small price to pay for no mean tweets.