
Homicides Increase 54% in Washington D.C. for 2015
Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.

Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.

Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.
Many people come to New York City with big dreams. Many of them return home disappointed, others work for years before seeing results, and very few make it within a year. Meet the exception: Chef Nir Mesika from the northern

Police in New York are searching for a man suspected of raping a 10-year-old Brooklyn girl causing the victim extensive physical damage that required surgery.

Police are searching for information leading to the arrest of an African-American man accused of masturbating for over 30 minutes while leering at a female commuter on New York’s No. 2 train last weekend.

At least one police union has seemingly abandoned its plans to boycott Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight in the wake of the director’s participation in an anti-police brutality rally in October and his subsequent escalating rhetoric against law enforcement.

PIX11 News reports that New York City police have been placed on “heightened alert” for the holiday season, and one of the reasons for concern is a possible terrorist threat that could target New York or several other major American cities.

The New York Police Department needs the city’s help identifying a woman who appears to have slashed two people after arguing about a pole on the subway.

As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.

Although President Obama’s executive amnesty programs remain held up in the courts, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a nearly $8 million initiative to provide legal assistance to the illegal immigrant community in the city and prepare them for executive amnesty.

A progressive catfight has erupted between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as they argue over who is more sympathetic to the homeless.

“One of the things that Rudy Giuliani innovated was bringing in an office of emergency management that coordinated the efforts of the police, the fire department, the environmental department, and everybody else,” Larry Levy says. “They figured out what to do to be prepared. We monitored hospital admissions in emergency rooms to see if there were signs of poisoning … things of that nature.

Erik Prince, the former head of defense contracting company Blackwater, which developed an infamous reputation for controversy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, appeared on Breitbart News Daily to discuss security measures the American people must take to protect themselves amid threats against the nation.

The scion of one of New York City’s famed Five Families has issued a press release warning the Islamic State terrorist group to stay away from New York, where the Mafia will prevent jihadis from doing any harm to the city’s eight million residents.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said that he doesn’t believe the White House’s assertion that ISIS lacks the capability to attack the US and works “every day, based on the premise that they have that capability” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s

Students for Life of America is running an ad that sends a message that Planned Parenthood betrays women. The ad began Wednesday and will run for one week, looping every hour daily from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. at the intersection of 1500 Broadway and 43rd St. in the heart of Times Square.

In New York, workers with Department of Design and Construction discovered a burial vault filled with skeletons at Washington Square Park.

President Obama is playing to his Democrat supporters by mocking the Republican presidential candidates who are running to replace him.

An eight-story building in New York City collapsed on Friday, killing at least one person.

What can $2,700 buy you? Well for starters you could use it to buy a cup of coffee with former Florida governor Jeb Bush as he continues his campaign for president.

Pushing his immigration platform, which includes calls for broader reforms to the legal immigration system and “a merit-based system” that gives people a path to citizenship, Marco Rubio said “my argument is if you’re the best at what you do on this planet, I don’t want you here temporarily. I want you here permanently. I want you to become American.

During a Mass celebrated in English, Spanish, and Latin, Pope Francis told some 20,000 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, “God is living in our cities.”

The Pope, who is in New York City where he has addressed the United Nations and will celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden later Friday evening, laid a white rose along the edge of the pool that marks the footprint of the south tower of what was formerly the World Trade Center. “Here grief is palpable,” the Pope said.

Social media came alive Monday afternoon with the discovery of a 14 second video of a rat dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of stairs in New York.

A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.