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Epstein alleged in email Trump ‘spent hours at my house’ with sex crime victim

House Democrats released another batch of documents in the FBI files related to Jeffrey Epstein‘s criminal sex trafficking case, revealing that Epstein alleged that President Donald Trump knew of the conduct and even spent “hours” with one of his victims. “BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES,” read […]

todayNovember 12, 2025 3

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Video of Jasmine Crockett calling out Byron Donalds for bill revoking juvenile crime reform he benefited from goes viral

A video of an exchange between U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and Byron Donalds, R-Fla., has gone viral, highlighting the ongoing political divide over public safety in the nation’s capital. Many, including comedian D.L. Hughley, shared the resurfaced encounter from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, reigniting the debate on criminal justice. On Sept. 17, the House passed Congressman Donalds’s bill, the DC Crimes Act of 2025, or H.R. 4922. Republicans championed the legislation for codifying President Donald […]

todayOctober 2, 2025 2

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DC mayor signs order to continue Trump’s crime emergency operations after praising its success

In a nod to continuing collaboration, the mayor of Washington, D.C., issued an order Tuesday to continue the work of an emergency operations center the city set up in response to the federal law enforcement surge ordered by President Donald Trump to battle what he insisted was out-of-control crime. The order from Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is walking a tightrope between portions of her constituency and her relationship with Trump’s White House, allows the center to continue managing the city’s response and coordinate communications with federal […]

todaySeptember 2, 2025 1

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Trump says Chicago is next for federal crime crackdown, claims Black women begged him to come

President Donald Trump said he has his sights on Chicago as up next for a takeover, as his administration escalates tensions with cities run by Black Democratic mayors over crime allegations. While applauding the National Guard, which he deployed in D.C. amid a “crime emergency,” the president declared on Aug. 11, Trump praised the troops for an “incredible job working with the police.” “We haven’t had to bring in the regular military, which we’re willing to do,” President Trump said […]

todayAugust 23, 2025

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Baltimore mayor shares racist voicemail from man who called him n-word amid Trump’s crime takeover

As Black mayors push back against right-wing claims about crime in their cities following President Donald Trump‘s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., neighboring Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has become a target. Mayor Scott shared a racist voicemail he received from an anonymous man to underscore longstanding bigoted attitudes about majority Black communities. “I really think it’s timely for folks to hear the kind of hatred and vitriol…that still exists in the world today,” Mayor Scott said in a video posted […]

todayAugust 19, 2025 2

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DC Mayor Bowser pushes back against Trump’s narrative on crime in the nation’s capital

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser defended the city’s handling of crime amid an escalation of threats from President Donald Trump to federalize the nation’s capital. “We have spent over the last two years driving down violent crime in this city–driving it down to a 30-year low, in fact, over the past year,” Bowser told MSNBC on Saturday. “We have decreased violent crime by 26% [and] the year before that, by 35%.” Trump railed against D.C.’s crime after a top employee of […]

todayAugust 11, 2025

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Proud Boys leader pardoned by Trump wants to return to scene of the crime as member of Congress

A leader of the white nationalist group the Proud Boys — who was convicted for actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol — is now eyeing a return to the scene of the crime. After being pardoned by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio was released from prison, where he was serving a 22-year sentence for convictions for multiple felonies, including seditious conspiracy to “oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential […]

todayFebruary 13, 2025

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Nevada man accused of hate crime acknowledged in police interview that he referenced ‘hanging tree’

RENO, Nevada (AP) — A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a “hanging tree” during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. Gary Miller, 74, his wife and their adult daughter were arrested Wednesday on various misdemeanors. They posted bail hours later and were released from the Storey County jail, court documents show. The encounter that […]

todayAugust 9, 2024

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Hate crime bill stalled for almost a year in South Carolina Senate

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law, increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation, are running out of time to get what could be a decisive vote in the state Senate. They brought survivors of a racist massacre that killed nine Black worshipers in a Charleston church in 2015 to speak to senators. They have had more than 100 businesses tell lawmakers that South Carolina […]

todayMarch 2, 2024 1