The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects are (www.vox.com)
It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway....
![](https://kbin.life/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/8e/11/8e11359409beb43d97ee31bd712c2f8e3ba51669d3d1fd2c5f0579e98b94552a.jpg)
There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway....
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d458845c-07df-4a54-bc13-7de3345010fd.png...
Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials....
The ex-president has said he would pardon those convicted of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracy...
Retailers and suppliers say it didn’t pay to offer products for everyone, and customers didn’t care that much when they stopped...
At the University of Haifa, a uniquely mixed institution where more than 40 percent of students are Arabs, those anxieties are amplified by what is among the school’s proudest achievements — its diversity....
It’s steadily sinking or subsiding, which is destabilizing levees, roads, and airports....
For decades, the most prominent American unions were largely supportive of Israel. Today, though, amid a resurgence of the American labor movement, some activists are urging their unions to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and succeeding — a change that reflects a broader generational shift....
A diplomatic breakthrough has allowed 62 refugees to start a new life in America. Yet a million still remain in fear and poverty in the Bangladeshi camps...
Trump first set sights on the old granite and limestone Bonwit Teller building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street in the mid-1970s. It was a time of street gangs and violent crime, when New York City was known more for the Son of Sam serial killer than for glamour and style....