ldi.upenn.edu | The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to violence-prevention programs nationwide are likely to reverse years of progress in reducing gun violence and may lead to a surge in shootings across cities, suburbs, and rural areas, according to two leading academic experts speaking at the University of Pennsylvania.

themarshallproject.org | A Marshall Project analysis of the grants terminated in late April found that more than 9% of grant descriptions mentioned phrases related to gender identity or sexual orientation and over 40% of grant descriptions mentioned ones related to race, ethnicity or immigration status.

NPR.com | “Almost all the cuts were to nonprofits. Solomon, the former DOJ official, says that reveals how the Trump administration is thinking about public safety…The kind of old school thinking is that it's only police that can keep communities safe. And what we're seeing out in the field more and more is that community-based organizations work as a complement to law enforcement," she says.”

newyorktimes.com | The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.

forbes.com | A little-discussed portion of the billionaire President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill" hands a lucrative break to ultrawealthy Americans in the form of a tax policy for private jet purchases.

newyorktimes.com | Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction and mental health programs nationwide that it was immediately terminating almost $2 billion of their funding, the administration reversed course and reinstated the money.

Reuters.com | Donald Trump’s top immigration officials have repeatedly made statements after violent encounters involving federal agents - including two fatal shootings of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this month - that were later contradicted by evidence, a Reuters review found.

Masked federal agents descended on a one-story home in St. Paul, Minn., on Sunday and dragged a man wearing nothing but his underwear and slip-on shoes from his doorstep, through an icy snowbank and into an idling S.U.V.

MPRNews.com | Shortly after Elvis Joel Tipan Echeverria, a man from Ecuador with an open asylum case, pulled into the driveway of his Minneapolis home on Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents broke a window in his car, pulled him and his 2-year-old daughter out and drove them away.

NBCWashington.com | Members of the powerful House Oversight Committee will consider 13 proposed bills that could seize more federal control over D.C. ‘All of them would be an affront to home rule.’

TheHill.com | Cuts to SNAP are bad for public safety

National Bureau of Economic Research | Analyzing the impact of losing Medicaid and an increase in crime.

AAMC.org | The termination of more than 1000 NIH grants has resulted in the cancellation of more than 150 clinical trials

Axios.com | Homicide rates continued to decline in major U.S. cities — by more than 40% in some communities — during the first nine months of the year.

The Trump administration is using an imagined enemy—“antifa”—to justify turning ICE into an ultra-violent, unaccountable army invading US cities.

WSJ.com | Trump granted Changpeng Zhao a presidential pardon last week, likely paving the way for the world’s largest crypto-trading platform to return to the U.S., from where it was banned after the company pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering rules.

TheHill.com | If passed, these bills would centralize federal control over local justice, dilute accountability and leave D.C. residents with less recourse when powerful actors break the rules.

Washingtonian.com | This is about home rule. This is about democracy. This is about self-governance. What it ain’t about is safety.