PHILADELPHIA — Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one of the previous four years, and fewer officers overall resigned or retired, according to the 214 law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF....
Police departments across the United States are reporting an increase in their ranks for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 killing of George Floyd, which led to a historic exodus of officers, a survey shows. More sworn officers were hired in 2023 than in any one
Nevada State police said a pedestrian was hit and killed after he attempted to cross the U.S. 95 last week.
Utah and Florida passed laws intended to prevent the WHO from overriding states’ authority on matters of public health policy, and Louisiana and Oklahoma have legislation set to take effect soon pending final votes.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The only international poll that ever asked (1,000 people in each of 65 countries) its respondents to name the one country that is “the greatest threat to peace in the world today” found that 24% volunteered to name America as being that, and that #2 was Pakistan at 8%, #3 […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is poised to make a landmark change to the federal government's position on marijuana. According to the agency's proposal, marijuana would no longer be considered among the most dangerous and addictive substances.
An upcoming Caracas-Managua flight route operated by the Venezuelan state-owned Conviasa airline will increase the flow of migrants trying to reach the United States, according to a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Wednesday.
The Navy and NASA invite and encourage the public to participate in the environmental planning process. The U.S. Department of the Navy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are jointly preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and welcome the community’s input in the environmental planning process. The public’s participation in this initial phase of the environmental planning process is important to ensuring community concerns are identified and addressed in...
WASHINGTON >> A U.S. soldier has been detained in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct, the U.S. Army said today, that country’s latest high-profile detention of an American.
The Biden administration said Friday that Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but wartime conditions prevented U.S. officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes.
Utah is No. 1 in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings for a second straight year, with the Beehive State landing among the top 20 in seven out of eight statistical categories.First launched in 2017, the Best States project ranks states based on their performance in the areas of health care, education, natural environment, opportunity, economy, crime and corrections, infrastructure and fiscal stability. The analysis encompasses thousands of data points across 71 metrics in eight...