Republican attempts to label the migrant surge an “invasion” have fallen flat in the courts‚ where judges say the flow of people and drugs looks less like a constitution-breaking military incursion and more like the kind of border problems that have plagued the country for decades. It was supposed to be the silver bullet‚ the constitutional argument that allowed the states new freedom of action to stiffen their borders. Texas has cited an invasion in its justification for erecting a floating...

Major felonies on the subway system are down 6.4% in the first four months of 2024 after a winter of high-profile subterranean crimes‚ according to NYPD stats released Monday. “What a difference a few months make‚” Norman Grandstaff‚ deputy chief of the NYPD’s transit bureau‚ said Monday at a meeting of the MTA’s board. The bulk of that reduction is due to a 25% drop in robberies and a 5% decrease in felony assaults from the same Jan. 1 to April 28 period last year. Murders are up‚ with four...

The family of a slain Chicago police officer demanded that Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) stay away from his funeral on Monday as the search for his killer continues. Officer Luis M. Huesca‚ 30‚ was shot and killed just before 3:00 a.m. on Sunday while driving home from work‚ Breitbart News reported. He was still in uniform when fellow officers discovered him‚ and he was pronounced dead at the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Huesca’s vehicle was missing...

The U.S. found five units of the Israel Defense Forces responsible &;quot;for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights‚&;quot; the State Department announced on Monday – though whether funding to the American ally could be cut over such abuses under the so-called &;quot;Leahy Laws&;quot; still hangs in the balance.  At a press briefing‚ State Department principal deputy spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters that the human rights violations happened all before the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas...

The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights‚ the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about Israeli forces‚ the State Department said on Monday‚ though it has not barred any of the units from receiving U.S. military assistance. Israel has conducted &;quot;remediation&;quot; in the cases of four of the units in compliance with U.S. law prohibiting military assistance to security force units that commit such abuses and have...

The US has found five units of the Israeli security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights‚ over incidents in the West Bank before the current Gaza war‚ the state department has said. The findings come at a time when Israel is facing potential accountability from the international criminal court and the state department for its conduct of the conflict in Gaza‚ in which more than 34‚000 people have been killed. The units found to be involved in abuses in the West Bank are...