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rate rose by more than 4% from 2021 over 2020. but that report is missing some critically important data. for some reason police departments in the biggest blue cities are not submitting their numbers to the f.b.i. the bureau has to resort to estimating how much crime is happening in crime-ridden cities like chicago, philadelphia, los angeles, and new york. question, is the crime crisis much worse than even we think? here are some actual stats from those cities. overall crime is up 37% in chicago. 26% in philadelphia. nearly 12% in los angeles, 32% in new york city. let s take a live look at this. it is so bad in new york that the nypd commissioner is holding a news conference right now to address the crime stats as we speak. we wanted to show you a live look at that and may be able to do that coming up. for now house minority leader kevin mccarthy was just with me yesterday. why is crime at a level it hasn t been in 20 years? because democrats defunded the police. th ....
the pound remains under pressure from market concerns about government borrowing to fund tax cuts. a state funeral is due to be held for the former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. leaders from across the world are expected to be at the service. the event will start in just under an hour but there has been growing opposition with detractors citing the cost. and honours even as engalnd and germany share six goals in their final game before the qatar, world cup. of an asteroid travelling at 14,000 miles per hour! it s the first time it s ever been done, and it s hoped that it ll teach us how to change the speed and path of future asteroids and planets. our science editor, rebecca morelle, has been taking a look at what happened. closing in on the target. images beamed back from 7 million miles away as a nasa spacecraft approaches an asteroid. the details of the rocky world are revealed. but this probe isn t here to study it. itsjob is to knock the space rock off cour ....
fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york p ....
attorney general, laetitia james, hit trump where it hurts him the most. james filed a sweeping lawsuit of hitting trump, the trump organization, and three of his adult children, in engaging in widespread fraud of years of false financial statements related to the family s business dealings. watch. claiming you have money you do not have does not amount to the heart of the deal. it is the heart of the steel. there cannot be different rules, for different people in this country, or the state. this former presidents are no different. attorney general james is asking trump to put his money where his mouth is to the tune of $250 million, to be exact. she is also seeking to permanently barred donald trump jr., eric trump, and ivanka trump, from running a business in the state again. they want to prohibit the trump business from entering real estate deals for five years. that would be a move that would, effectively, shutter trump s business empire in his home state, right ....
invested several billion to get the island back on its feet the american people who live there are in the dark, we ask why? this is american voices. however anomalies him menendez, mental gymnastics it could be donald trump s favorite sport, case in point the legal fallout of the fbi search of classified documents at his mar-a-lago residents. trump claims those documents were declassified, sean hannity asked trump about his declassification process let s call it this week, the latter made it clear so bonkers you have to hear from trump himself. it doesn t have to be a process as i understand it, there are different people saying different things there doesn t have to be if you are the president of the united states you can declassify by saying that it is declassified even by thinking about it because her sending it to marlar go or to wherever you are sending it. let s just say if you consider these mental gymnastics, he didn t quite stick the landing and that clai ....