The campaign cited data showing from 2021 to 2023, murders in Springfield, Ohio, rose from five to nine. That’s an 80% increase.  A crime data expert cautioned against making annual comparisons in places where less than one homicide is reported each month, noting that homicides would be considered too rare to draw conclusions.  FBI homicide data also showed that the number of homicides in Springfield fluctuated without a clear trend from 2012 to 2022.

Egypt said it sent military aid to Somalia, the latest show of support for the Horn of Africa nation that’s embroiled in a feud with neighboring Ethiopia over a breakaway territory. A shipment that recently arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, is part of backing “for the efforts of sisterly Somalia to achieve security and stability, combat terrorism” and preserve its sovereignty and unity, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Monday in a brief statement.

Donald Trump has promised to visit Aurora, Colo., where he has claimed that Argentinian gangs have taken over apartment buildings. The Republican mayor is welcoming Trump to show him otherwise.

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“It gets to the very fundamental nature of democracy,” says Danielle Jefferis, an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. “Who has a right to cast a ballot?” The Nebraska case weighs the redemptive power that the right to vote can have on those who’ve lost it, with the principle that voting rights come with responsibility to protect the integrity of elections. Thousands of Nebraskans with felony convictions could be denied voting rights under an opinion now under...

OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein articulated a vision for the future of deep-sea exploration during his testimony before the U.S. Coast Guard panel on Monday. Sohnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, left the company before the implosion of the Titan in June 2023. He outlined plans for a fleet of four to five deep-diving submersibles, each designed to carry five passengers to depths of 6,000 meters (approximately 19,685 feet). Sohnlein emphasized that the absence of a...

CARACAS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Bleider Leves, a 17-year-old mechanic, was heading to his Caracas home one day in late July after Venezuela's contested election when police grabbed him on the street. Officers beat, tortured and jailed him without cause, his mother said. Nearly two months later, the teenager remains imprisoned but there have been no charges nor any sign he will be released, his mother, Adelaida Herrera, said in an interview. Rights groups alleged there have been 25 deaths and 2,400...

"Only 5% of single-use plastic is recycled in the U.S.," according to the AG. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofit groups are suing ExxonMobil for the company's alleged role in the global plastics pollution crisis. The state claims the oil and gas giant engaged in a "decades-long campaign of deception" to lie to consumers about the sustainability of plastic recycling, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in San...

The U.S. is sending a “small number” of ground troops to the Middle East as a larger war between Israel and Hezbollah threatens to break out, the Pentagon announced Monday. Defense Department press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters the new detachment was being sent “in light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution.” “We are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel to augment our forces that are already in the region,” Ryder said...

Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah. Thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of the southern port city of Sidon was jammed with cars heading toward Beirut in the biggest...