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  • Houston Man Pardoned by Trump Arrested on Child Sex Charge

    Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor. Harris County District Attorney’s office had faxed a copy of Taake’s outstanding warrant to the Federal Bureau of Prisons five days before he was pardoned, but the Bureau ignored it.

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  • Sweden’s Deadliest Mass Shooting Highlights Global Reality of Gun Violence, Criminologist Says

    “We in the United States don’t have a monopoly on mass shootings,” James Alan Fox says, “though we certainly have more than our share.”

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  • FBI Agents Sue DOJ, Allege Retaliation Over Jan. 6 Cases

    FBI agents involved in the Jan. 6 Capital riot investigations have filed lawsuits against the Justice Department, challenging its efforts to survey and identify personnel who participated in high-profile inquiries such as the riot and handling of classified documents at Mar-a-logo.

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  • Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren’t “Invading” the United States

    My research at the Cato Institute on crime and terrorism committed by illegal immigrants conclusively shows that they commit less crime than native-born Americans and have murdered zero people in domestic attacks since 1975. We also fond no statistically significant relationship between the size of the immigrant population, the illegal immigrant population, or the legal immigrant population and the spread of serious communicable diseases.

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  • What We Learned from Analyzing 10 Years of Shooting Data

    A Trace series challenges what many people might think about gun violence in America. Here is one of the highlights: You’re more likely to be shot in the rural South than in big cities like Chicago.

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  • A Disaster Expert Explains Why the L.A. Fires Have Been So Catastrophic

    As we’re seeing more and more disaster events, it raises questions about risk and whether insurers are going to keep insuring homes in the long run. Increasingly, it seems the answer is no.

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  • A Wagner Mercenary Who Crossed U.S.-Mexican Border Was Honored in Russia Weeks Before Arrest

    A self-confessed veteran of Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group arrested for crossing into the United States from Mexico appears to have been honored as a combat veteran weeks earlier by an organization established by Russian President Valdimir Putin.

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  • How Many People Were Killed by the Pandemic Surge in Shootings?

    In a new analysis, The Trace figured out the number of people who might have lived if gun violence had remained at its 2019 level.

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  • Nippon Steel and the “National Security” Hoax

    The locking by President Joe Biden Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of US Steel risks damaging the US investment review process; US-Japan relations; the US position as a welcoming place for foreign investment; nations’ general rule against using “national security” as a guise for political favoritism and economic protectionism; and the US economy itself.

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  • Here Are the U.S. Immigration Terms to Know

    The U.S. immigration system is complex, consisting of various laws, policies, and programs. Here’s what to know about immigration under a second Trump administration.

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  • “Anything we can do to help”: This Texas County Is Poised to Play a Key Role in Deportations

    As Trump moves closer to reclaiming residency at the White House on Jan. 20, the vast Texas acreage at the edge of the Rio Grande promises to become a centerpiece of the get-tough immigration policies he plans to unfurl under recently named “border czar” Tom Homan. Impoverished Starr County might be the site of a new federal deportation center.

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  • Trump Wants to Use the Alien Enemies Act to Deport Immigrants – but the 18th-century Law Has Been Invoked Only During Times of War

    President-elect Donald Trump often said during the 2024 presidential campaign that he planned to use an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out the nation’s largest-ever mass deportation operation ever. Why bother dusting off a 226-year-old law? Because the law lets presidents bypass immigration courts.

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  • A North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate’s Bid to Overturn His Loss Is Based on Theory Election Deniers Deemed Extreme

    Republican Jefferson Griffin narrowly lost his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Now he’s asking that 60,000 ballots be thrown out based on a theory that an election denier said amounted to “voter suppression.”

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  • More States Require Energy Companies to Pay for Damages Caused by Climate-Related Disasters

    In recent years, several U.S. states have enacted laws to hold fossil fuel companies financially accountable for damages resulting from climate change. These actions reflect growing concerns about the connection between corporate practices, climate change, and disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, and floods.

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  • How China Tariffs Could Backfire on U.S.

    Asia scholar says they could spark higher prices, supply-chain disruptions for Americans —and possibly help Beijing weaken our ties to allies.

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  • Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for swift deportations is illegal, Trump-appointed judge rules
  • White House proposes sanctions, directs DHS to investigate immigration attorneys
  • The Supreme Court’s Mixed Signals on Trump’s Deportations to El Salvador
  • DHS suspends green card processing for refugees, asylees
  • Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order
  • Trump administration ends extended protections for Venezuelans in US, official says
  • Man Pardoned in Jan. 6 Riot Is Fatally Shot by Sheriff’s Deputy During Traffic Stop
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
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  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
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  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
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  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
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The long view

  • The Center Can Hold — States’ Rights and Local Privilege in a Climate of Federal Overreach

    As American institutions weather the storms of executive disruption, legal ambiguity, and polarized governance, we must reexamine what it means for “the center” to hold.

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  • How to Reverse Nation’s Declining Birth Rate

    Health experts urge policies that buoy families: lower living costs, affordable childcare, help for older parents who want more kids

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  • Turnover Among Election Officials Reaches New High: Report

    Election officials turned over at the highest rate in at least a quarter century during the last presidential election. Nearly 40 percent of election officials administering the 2024 election weren’t around in 2020.

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    A new electronic voting system developed at NTNU can withstand attacks from quantum computers, meaning digital elections can be conducted securely, even in the future.

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