The demise of SF Pretrial, which for 50 years has provided diversion services, came after the mayor cut its budget and as Democrats’ attitudes toward crime shift.
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High Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is the latest sign that redistricting may be energizing Black Southern voters.
D.C.’s top prosecutor spent a year navigating the president’s demands. Now she finds her job at risk amid a rare break with him over cases of alleged vandalism.
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The battle for control of the U.S. Senate isn't supposed to run through Mississippi. Scott Colom is trying to convince people that it could. “We can win here, and we're going to,” said Colom, the Democratic nominee who's trying to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith as she seeks her second full term. That could be [...]
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These candidates in California, Ohio, Michigan, and Florida are vying for governor as prominent incumbents head out of office.
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Photo Credit:Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Classical order, national identity, and the modernist assault on Washington.
OpenClipArt By Frank Ryan The reality of the Social Security system and laws is that the system design is fundamentally and fatally flawed.
AT via Magic Studio By Pete McArdle Reading excerpts from Anthony Fauci’s ill-advised diary, it’s clear above all that he’s a money-grubbing, narcissistic liar.
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Den Store Danske By Paul O’Brien Americans like their gas cheap and their speech free, and aren’t about to accept technical explanations or moral posturing to get in the way of either.
National Archives By Scott S. Powell American approaches to war for the last 70 years have been characterized by a normalcy bias that war conduct should be guided by the goal of reaching negotiated compromise outcomes rather than achieving victory and total defeat of the enemy.