## Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it

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Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it.

The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI statistics.

The overall violent crime rate, which includes murder, assault, robbery and rape, inched up around 5% in the same period.

Yet when you ask people about crime in the country, the perception is it's getting a lot worse.

A Gallup poll released in November found 77% of Americans believed there was more crime in the country than the year before.

And 63% felt there was either a "very" or "extremely" serious crime problem — the highest in the poll's history going back to 2000.

Asher, the crime analyst, says there is no one reason why violent crime is going down. »

### Instagram will stop recommending political content

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In a blog post Friday, Instagram, the popular photo and video app owned by Meta, said it will no longer “proactively recommend” political content from accounts that users do not already follow.

By default, going forward Instagram and Threads will not promote political content (unless it’s from accounts users already are following).

Such users flagged for political content also can “stop posting this type of content for a period of time, in order to be eligible to be recommended again,” Instagram said. »

### Mongolia's former president mocks Putin with a map showing how big the Mongol empire used to be, and how small Russia was

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Mongolia's former president shared a map of the Mongol Empire, which included parts of Russia.

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He shared maps showing how large the Mongol Empire was, with it once controlling parts of what is now Russia. »

### Biden’s legal team went to Justice Dept. over what they viewed as unnecessary digs at his memory

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(AP) — President Joe Biden’s personal attorney said Sunday he went to both the special counsel and the attorney general to register concerns over what he viewed to be pejorative and unnecessary digs at the president’s memory.

“This is a report that went off the rails,” Bob Bauer said on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday.

And then he went on to cite examples where investigators said the president’s memory lapsed, including over when his older son Beau had died. »

### So far delivering democracy in Helldivers 2 has been pretty great

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Since then, developer Arrowhead Game Studios kept that DNA intact in pretty much all of their following releases, including the original Helldivers.

Everything about Helldivers 2 is ridiculous and over the top, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

20 hours in, Helldivers 2 continues delivering enough of a good time to keep me going and going. »

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