Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...

Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with ...

The most recent Major Cities Chiefs Association survey – made up of preliminary statistics compiled from 67 law enforcement agencies in the US and Canada – shows homicides dropped about 19% last year ...

In an arrest authorized by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement suboffice in Central Islip, Rubio was taken into custody and shuffled that day from Bethpage to the Nassau County jail in East Meadow ...

"The United States and Venezuela's interim authorities have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations," the State Department said in a statement. "This step will facilitate our joint ...

Deep in the Amazon, far from Caracas and invisible to Washington, a criminal industry in Venezuela is expanding under armed protection. While policymakers debate Venezuela’s oil, a violent parallel ...

The violent crime rate in the United States has dropped to record lows. It is wonderful news, but people shouldn’t become complacent and shouldn’t accept the weakening of the justice system at the ...

President Donald Trump delivered the first State of the Union of his second term, beating his own record for the longest annual address. Follow here for the latest.

As President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, reporters from across NPR's newsroom, are fact checking his speech and offer context.

We’ve been looking into an oil tanker the US says it has intercepted in the Indian Ocean, accusing it of breaching a blockade of Venezuela’s oil exports in January. The US Department of Defense ...

Violent crime fell dramatically in 2025, in what experts expect to be the year with the sharpest drop in homicides in recorded history. The decline, detailed in two recent reports of major U.S. cities ...

GREENVILLE, S.C (WSPA) — Greenville’s crime rate has reached its lowest level in 25 years following a significant decline in violent and property offenses. New data released from the Greenville Police ...