In the wake of the assassination of the conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, posts claiming that political party membership was a predictor of political violence spread ...

The office of FBI Director Kash Patel ripped Gov. Gavin Newsom over accusations he misrepresented crime data to show that ...

U.S. homicide rates surged to 7.3 per 100,000 between 2020 and 2023 compared to the 5.6 average from 2014 to 2019. Firearms accounted for 80% of reported U.S. homicides in 2023 compared to 68% in 2014 ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...