Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA) ; Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios Violent crime kept falling across many of the nation's largest cities through June, with homicides down 17.2% from the first half of 2025, according to preliminary data reviewed by Axios. Why it matters: The decline now spans two presidencies — it began falling under President Biden after the pandemic-era surge, and has kept dropping under President Trump . - Trump came into office casting America as being overrun by crime at time when the numbers were already declining dramatically. - As that decline has continued during his watch he's taken credit for it, often linking it to his deployment of the National Guard in cities such as Washington, D.C., and…
When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a video Saturday giving herself a shot in preparation to freeze her eggs, she instantly injected issues of fertility, family and feminism into political discourse. - And some of the online backlash from the conservative right is making Republicans, including some in the White House, a little nervous. Why it matters: The New York Democrat's Instagram announcement — "Don't be weird about this, even though I know all of you will be," she said — dominated social media and furthered speculation that AOC is plotting a White House run in two years. Friction point: The left cheered the 36-year-old on. The right was divided between conservatives who want the U.S. birthrate to increase and those…
The Ohio Republican denies his ex-wife’s abuse allegations, but Democratic nominee Brian Poindexter has been added to the party’s “Red to Blue” program.
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead
U.S. and South Korean recovery teams are searching waters off the Korean Peninsula for wreckage from three U.S. military aircraft that crashed during the Korean War.
