Far fewer U.S. police officers died while on the job in 2022 than a year earlier, due mostly to a drop in COVID-19 deaths, though the number killed by gunfire remained relatively high, according to a report released Wednesday. Sixty-four of the 226 officers who died in the line of duty last year were fatally
Photo: John Kraft sits next to his yawning cat, Tux, at his hilltop farmhouse in Clear Lake, Wis, A word — “Hope” — is stitched onto a throw pillow in the little hilltop farmhouse. Photographs of children and grandchildren speckle the walls. In the kitchen, an envelope is decorated with a hand-drawn heart. “Happy Birthday,
Unrest broke out in southern Sweden late Saturday despite police moving a rally by an anti-Islam far-right group, which was planning to burn a Quran among other things, to a new location as a preventive measure. Scuffles and unrest were reported in the southern town of Landskrona after a demonstration scheduled there by the Danish
Background checks for gun purchases in Arizona hit their highest level ever in 2020, driven by an unprecedented convergence of a pandemic, a summer of national unrest and a presidential election, experts said. With a month left to go in the year, 610,911 background checks had been performed in the state through November, well over
The Oath Keepers of Yavapai County and the Yavapai County Preparedness Team warn of coming civil disorders. Regardless of how the presidential election is settled, Jim Arroyo argues that the violent protests and looting we have seen this year in major American cities are likely to continue or even spread. This creates a risk to
Just days before Election Day, elections officials are on alert for voter intimidation – which can range from threatening emails to campaigning too close to a polling location to “ostentatious display” of weapons – and working to educate voters about their rights and how to respond. Intimidation is illegal under state and federal law, and
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