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Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Election workers across the country are being bombarded with threats, and law enforcement agencies nationwide are dedicating “substantial resources” to ensure public safety during the election, according to a new threat assessment obtained by ABC News. The document, transmitted Monday by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, encapsulates the full picture […]

Getty Images – STOCK/skynesher (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana’s new law requiring all public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments will not be publicly enforced or endorsed in any way until November 15, 2024, according to a new court filing in the ongoing legal battle over the policy. Both parties agreed that the Ten Commandments […]

J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The upcoming Cricket World Cup in Nassau County, New York, along with associated events in New York City, could be viewed by extremists as “an attractive opportunity to perpetrate acts of violence or disruption,” according to a new assessment by the NYPD Intel Bureau. “Recent pro-ISIS […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Four members of law enforcement were shot and killed and four were wounded while they attempted to serve two warrants in Charlotte, North Carolina, police said Monday. Around 1:30 p.m. local time, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force was serving active felony warrants for possession of a firearm by […]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Law enforcement line-of-duty deaths decreased by 66% halfway through 2023, according to a report released by the National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund on Tuesday. Every year the NLEMF releases two reports — one counting the midyear line of duty death statistics and one recapping the statistics for the entire year. […]