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Stanford researchers are promoting a study on children and guns that includes firearm related injuries and deaths for people 15-18-years-old.

HOUSTON, Texas — Five men who police say are well-documented gang members teamed up to allegedly burglarize a pharmacy located on the city’s southwest side. Houston Police Department officers say they caught the group leaving the area of the burglary and they were carrying tools commonly used for such jobs.

New asylum rules would give the right to migrate to the U.S. to a foreign population half the size of the American Midwest. 

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed during a “large fight” at a birthday party in Romford, making him the youngest stabbing fatality in London this year.

Pro-amnesty Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) criticized the Trump administration’s heightened focus on MS-13 gang violence Tuesday, describing it as a political ploy to gin up Republican support for the 2018 midterm elections.

A 15-year-old was stabbed to death in the late Enoch Powell’s former constituency of Wolverhampton shortly after gangs of young men were filmed brawling with machetes in broad daylight.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to have a special mission to defend the dignity and rights of people and organizations that torture, dismember, and mutilate their victims.

Gang violence in the UK is claiming more lives than terrorism, a criminologist has revealed, demanding the government takes the crimes as seriously as militant attacks.

A shopkeeper who witnessed a mass brawl which ended with one teenager being stabbed multiple times and another having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in multicultural Birmingham said he was “used to” such scenes.

A Swedish manufacturer in Skåne county, home of the heavily migrant populated city of Malmö, has announced a record multi-million Krona order for bulletproof glass which the company describes as used for protecting against terrorist attacks.

EDINBURG, Texas — Three men and a woman are facing capital murder charges for their role in the kidnapping, torture, murder, and dismemberment of a local street-level drug dealer. The various body parts that made up the victim’s body were later found in a makeshift grave on a rural tract of land in South Texas.

A beloved middle school math teacher was killed by a stray bullet as she walked down a street in Chicago’s Rogers Park. The teacher became yet another casualty of the pervasive gang violence in the city.

Five illegal aliens who are part of the MS-13 gang were charged in connection with the brutal murder of a Maryland woman who was beaten to death and buried in June and unearthed in September.

Less than one percent of Guatemalan nationals come to the United States to escape gang violence in their native country, a new report claims.

There is concern among Phoenix police officers that proposed changes by the city’s police department to restrict officers from contacting immigration authorities will lead to an explosion in gang violence similar to the one that gripped the city in the 80’s and 90’s.

Law enforcement officials in the Houston area are searching for a previously deported MS-13 gang member wanted in connection with the murder of his female companion. The murder victim is also the mother of the suspect’s child.

The City of Houston, home of an MS-13 gang Tier 1 threat, has joined the bandwagon with other cities in Texas to sue over the State’s new anti-sanctuary ban.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials report a recent gang enforcement operation called “Project New Dawn,” led to 1,378 arrests of which 1,095 were gang members or associates.

Prosecutors charged six members of the violent Latin Kings street gang with stabbing and beating a handicapped man. The gang members allegedly punched, repeatedly stabbed, and beat the victim with his own cane.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with leaders from across federal law enforcement Tuesday to address transnational organized crime.

Venezuela, home to the deadliest city in the world, experienced the homicides of nearly 10,000 underaged individuals in 2016, and 35 percent of homicide victims were under the age of 20.

Notorious El Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is recruiting students as early as fifth grade, according to investigators tasked with containing gang violence.

Reuters — Sweden pledged on Friday to end a surge of gang violence in the southern town of Malmo as the latest in a string of shootings left a 16-year old boy dead. Home Affairs Anders Ygeman said the government

On March 04, 2010, the Chicago Tribune reported that the hallmark of municipal gun bans was a sharp increase in death rates, and it suggested the reason for the rise in fatalities was because bans affect law-abiding citizens rather than criminals.

Over the past weekend, the city of Chicago reached yet another grim milestone, despite its strict gun-banning laws, by surpassing its 3,000th shooting victim. Proving nothing is sacred, late Sunday night, an 18-year-old woman was shot while attending a prayer vigil for a previous victim of Chicago’s gang violence.

Black Lives Matter collectively insists that violence in the nation’s big cities is the fault of police because they are “murdering” blacks in the streets. But at least in the case of Chicago, after hitting 500 murders making this its bloodiest year in decades, the truth is that very few of those deaths have been at the hands of police.

A 79-year-old St. Louis woman on her way to church barely escaped with her life when three gangbangers drove up next to her car on the street and allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail into her backseat, setting the car ablaze.

Gang violence is apparently so bad in Chicago that Facebook’s “safety check” alert system had spread across the city after a recent shooting incident.

A house party in San Jose spiraled so out of control on Friday night that a police SWAT team was called in to break up the chaos.

In the early morning hours of July 5, BNO News reported a suspected gang-related double murder in Phoenix as a “mass shooting.”

With 344 murders, last year was the bloodiest year in the City of Baltimore’s history. But as 2016 reaches its halfway point, the bloodshed seems to be showing no signs of stopping.

Six MS-13 gang members were convicted for three grisly murders and another attempted murder on Monday and face mandatory life sentences. Thirteen gang members were originally charged, and six took plea deals and testified against the others, while one will face a separate trial.

One man was stabbed to death, three gunned down, and another 41 shot over the last four days in Chicago as cold weather turned mild over the weekend.

During the March 13 CNN Democrat Town Hall in Ohio, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about gang-related gun violence by pushing stricter gun control for law-abiding citizens.

The gang-affiliated father of the 9-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered execution-style late last year has now been arrested and charged in the shootings of three other people, police say.

Twenty-one people were shot — leaving two dead — in gun-controlled Chicago, during a 20-hour window from Tuesday to Wednesday.