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The latest news on Donald Trump's indictment on federal charges • Former President Donald Trump • The indictment was made public just before 2 p.m. ET. Trump faces 37 counts on seven charges, including false statements, conspiracy to obstruct and willful retention of national defense information. • Trump's personal aide Walt Nauta was also indicted on six counts, including conspiracy to obstruct and false statements. Nauta's lawyer declined to comment. • Special counsel Jack Smith urged the public to • The investigation began last year when the National Archives alerted the FBI that government documents Trump had returned after having been out of office for about a year included 184 that were marked classified. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. • Trump and his allies have tried to • Trump is not the only politician to have problems with classified documents. Part of his argument that he is being treated unfairly is that Biden has not also been indicted. But the way Trump and Biden handled their classified documents is very different. Find out more Live coverage of former President Donald Trump’s indictment continues here . Hiding documents in a shower. Showing national security secrets to a political aide and an author. And telling lawyers to simply not cooperate with a grand jury subpoena. These are some of the allegations against Donald Trump in the bombshell federal indictment unsealed Friday, related to the more than 100 classified documents federal agents retrieved fro...

Twenty-one of those documents, including some involving nuclear secrets, were found by FBI agents who searched the estate in August — yielding a total of 102 classified documents, according to the indictment. The other 10 willful-retention charges stem from a batch of 38 classified documents turned over to the FBI last June in response to a grand jury subpoena. “This is not a case about what documents were taken, it’s about what former president Trump did after the government sought to retrieve those documents,” said Mintz, who noted that willful-retention cases often hinge on how much evidence prosecutors can find that a person deliberately hid material or refused to give it back. The indictment offers anecdote after alleged anecdote charging that the former president sought to hide and keep some of the classified papers, so much so that Trump and Nauta are accused of conspiring to obstruct the investigation and scheming to conceal the truth not just from the government, but even from Those allegations include: moving boxes out of a storage room; telling an attorney to search that room for classified material without saying that dozens of boxes were being kept elsewhere; suggesting an attorney hide or destroy documents that had been subpoenaed; and causing another person to make false statements about whether all the classified documents had been produced. But when discussing his own possible mishandling case last year, Trump seized on another facet of the Clinton probe: ...

From the first day of his presidency to his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump has sounded the alarm about crime in the United States. Trump vowed to end “ As Trump’s presidency draws to a close, here is a look at what we know – and don’t know – about crime in the U.S., based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the federal government and other sources. Crime is a regular topic of discussion in the United States. We conducted this analysis to learn more about U.S. crime patterns and how those patterns have changed over time. The analysis relies on statistics published by the To measure public attitudes about crime in the U.S., we relied on survey data from Gallup and Pew Research Center. How much crime is there in the U.S.? It’s difficult to say for certain. The The FBI publishes BJS, for its part, tracks crime by fielding a All those caveats aside, looking at the FBI and BJS statistics side-by-side does give researchers a good picture of U.S. violent and property crime rates and how they have changed over time. Which kinds of crime are most and least common? Property crime in the U.S. is much more common than violent crime. In 2019, the FBI reported a total of 2,109.9 property crimes per 100,000 people, compared with 379.4 violent crimes per 100,000 people. By far the most common form of property crime in 2019 was larceny/theft, followed by burglary and motor vehicle theft. Among violent crimes, aggravated assault was the most common offense, followed by robb...

In 2022, there have been 106 homicides in Charlotte as of Tuesday, an 8% increase from 2021.When the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released its third-quarter crime statistics in October, they noted overall crime was up 4.5%. But that was driven mostly by property crime — overall violent crimes were down 5%. There was one notable exception: Homicides, which were up more than any other category of crime. And that trend has continued, in a reversal of the trend in 2021. According to CMPD’s Of the 106 homicides in Charlotte this year, the average age of victims is around 31 years old. Across all CMPD Patrol Divisions, the highest number of homicides have been reported in: • University City (14) • Westover(13) • Metro (13) • North Tyron (13) • Steele Creek (11) This map shows the block where each homicide occurred in 2022. CMPD has tried to alleviate gun violence through efforts like its Crime Suppression team, which has seized over 2,500 firearms during criminal investigations Despite that, CMPD data shows 86% of homicides in Charlotte were committed with a firearm. More grieving families means more need for services to help those affected by violent crimes. One place those families can look to is the organization MOMO Executive Director Lisa Crawford hopes the community can learn to be more peaceful — and that next year’s homicide numbers won’t continue to rise. “I hope we find a different way to deal with our conflicts,” said Crawford. “Elements of these situations...