Violent crime dropped sharply across America's biggest cities in 2025, according to new data reviewed by Axios.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”

The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.

DOJ: The death rate among state prisoners increased 47% between 2019 and 2024 ... The deaths include homicides, suicides and violence, and the report concluded that understaffing and high turnover “likely contribute” to the increase

Louisiana paroles its lowest number of prisoners in 20 years under Gov. Jeff Landry The state parole board freed 185 prisoners during Landry’s tenure, compared with 858 in the two years before he took office. Hundreds who would have been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with…

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

A longtime snitch with an armed robbery conviction told the government that a construction worker with no sheet is a high-ranking Latin King trying to kill Greg Bovino. The “case” fell at trial but the government is trying to deport the man anyway. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/24/m...

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein lured some of his victims in the 2000s by promising to help them get into New York University and Columbia University, then sometimes footing the tuition bills.

"A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland, just a day after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minnesota. Follow @alexzee.bsky.social for updates. www.opb.org/article/2026...

The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. (And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.) /

"Baltimore will likely pay a $14 million civil rights settlement to Gary Washington, who was wrongfully convicted of killing a teen in the city in 1986.": www.baltimoresun.com/2026/01/06/b...

Latest: The Justice Department Inspector General released a report detailing a fatal case of medical neglect, where Bureau of Prisons officials let a man waste away from treatable colon cancer. A federal judge held the BOP in contempt over its treatment of the man. reason.com/2026/01/06/i...

Nanon Williams was sent to death row for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Rob and Michelle Reiner learned about his fight for freedom and built a bond through daily emails. “They became my family,” Williams told NBC News after their deaths.

The first trial in the Mississippi welfare scandal is set to begin this week, with former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. standing trial.

The most telling Bari Weiss incident came when "The Free Press" excused George Floyd's murder, @radleybalko.bsky.social highlighted factual errors, and Weiss's reaction was not to make corrections, but to invite Balko on a podcast. There is no truth, there are no standards, there is only content.

Exclusive: The incident that prompted Trump to ban Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago’s spa.

Somebody sent this to me and it's completely false. Murder is falling because shootings are plunging not because emergency medical technology suddenly improved in 2023.

District attorneys. Prison superintendents. Even sentencing judges. They’ve urged @governor.ny.gov to grant clemency. She hasn’t freed anyone all year — despite promising to grant pardons and clemencies on a "rolling basis." www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/30/h...

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NEW: Pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I don’t want to see “experts say Trump can’t pardon a state conviction.” That’s like “experts say sun rises in east, and some scientists claim water is two hydrogen atoms attached to an oxygen atom.” It’s just a fact. He CANNOT do this. And the media DAMN well better get their coverage right.

"Travis County district attorney moves to exonerate wrongfully accused yogurt shop murder suspects": www.kut.org/crime-justic...

ICYMI: Deaths from criminal homicide, drug overdose, alcohol, and traffic accidents all spiked during COVID. They're all rapidly falling today. I wrote about the positive trend behind death rates from some causes in the US today. jasher.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...

EXCLUSIVE: Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

1. Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before. Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported. @veritenews.org @propublica.org

BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After more than 25 years on death row, Jimmie Duncan inched one step closer to freedom Friday when Judge Alvin Sharp in Ouachita Parish granted him bail, setting it at $150,000. @veritenews.org @propublica.org veritenews.org/2025/11/21/j...

This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...

In a brutal Mississippi jail, inmates say they were enlisted as enforcers High-ranking inmates in the Rankin County jail known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top.

An extraordinary admission: "The Sheriff’s Office wishes to express its sincere regrets to Eric and Joan Meyer and Ruth and Ronald Herbel for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion Police Department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record" #ksleg

My latest: on Friday, a Tennessee appeals court ruled that new evidence didn’t prove Russell Maze's innocence--even though the medical examiner whose testimony helped convict Maze recanted and concluded Maze’s son died of natural causes, not from being shaken. www.propublica.org/article/tenn...

Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy

In 2018, her office was given power to probe all police deaths in New York State. Zero convictions. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/n...

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reuters: NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES, LONGTIME TRUMP FOE, INDICTED ON CRIMINAL BANK FRAUD CHARGE -PERSON FAMILIAR

"The irregular has now become the regular." At some point, ideally some point soon: State bars need to start disbarring people. And federal courts need to start stripping DOJ lawyers/AUSAs of their admission the district bar (which, for the feds, I think is a much bigger blow).

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

New Orleans has had the fewest murders this year since 1970. Carjackings are down 80% relative to 2022, vehicle burglaries are down 70%, shootings are down 63%. This is a wholly unnecessary stunt that will hurt local businesses.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City plans to announce on Sunday that he will abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day, according to two people briefed on his plans. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

BREAKING: The Federal Bureau of Prisons just terminated its union's collective bargaining agreement this afternoon, according to this letter posted online by the national union president:

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social reports it like it is www.wired.com/story/brenda...

News: The North Carolina Parole Commission has settled a lawsuit brought by Bret Abrams, incarcerated for more than 42 years for a crime he committed at age 14. A judge has acknowledged that "worryingly, incorrect information was included" in Abrams' parole reviews. 1/2 www.wfae.org/crime-justic...

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Begging journalists not to report on crime trends like this. DC crime was already falling relative to 2024 prior to the federal intervention, so it comes as no surprise that it was also down during this stretch.