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The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce­ment Act of 1994authorized the creation of an intergovernmental grant programwithin the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the hiring andrede­ployment of 100,000 additional community polic­ingofficers on America's streets. The program that administers thegrants is the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS).

The Bush Administration's budget for fiscal year 2004 recommendsmajor changes at the U.S. Department of Justice. Among theAdministration's proposals are that hiring grants administered bythe Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) beeliminated in FY 2004 and that overall funding for COPS be reducedto retarget funding for more urgent priorities.

This is a letter to the editor from the Herald & Review opinion section.

This is a letter to the editor from the Herald & Review opinion section.

The United Methodist Church Council of Bishops has denounced what they call the “idolatry of guns,” demanding that measures be taken to curb gun violence in the United States, including restoring a ban on so-called assault weapons. 

The United Methodist Church Council of Bishops has denounced what they call the “idolatry of guns,” demanding that measures be taken to curb gun violence in the United States, including restoring a ban on so-called assault weapons. 

Academics have investigated whether assault-weapons bans, large-capacity magazine restrictions, universal background checks and other curbs have worked.

President Joe Biden’s attempts to put an assault weapons ban at the center of his rallying cry on guns – similar to a ban he helped pass as a senator nearly 30 years ago – is confronting a political dynamic that makes the goal almost impossible to achieve.

Letter writers address latest wave of mass shootings and urge Congress to take action.

Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and stretched others, mainly repeated claims we’ve heard before: Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden referred to the American Jobs...