As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023

Experts say most cities are seeing a drop in crime levels that spiked during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic ... the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention ...

Three days before Trump’s swearing in to office, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that EcoHealth Alliance and its former president, Dr. Peter Daszak, were cut off of all funding and formally debarred for an unprecedented five years.

Dr. Anthony Fauci helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID pandemic. He has never been charged with a crime, yet received a “full and unconditional” pardon back to Jan. 1, 2014.

Experts say most cities are seeing a drop in crime levels that spiked during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic ... at the University of Chicago's Crime Lab. Violence interruption and ...

The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.

The five-bedroom, 3,283-square-foot bungalow in Oak Park that onetime Chicago Outfit chief Sam Giancana owned — and the home in whose basement Giancana was slain in a 1975 crime that never has been solved — sold on Jan. 22 for $900,000.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, best known simply as Dr. Oz, has made recent headlines for his political aspirations — first for running in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, and then when President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The Jefferson County budget was boosted by more than $30 million compared to last year, mostly due to state funding for road projects.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of the pandemic's origins.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.