Violent crime fell across the United States from 2024 to 2025, with murders falling by more than 18%, as well as declines in other major categories not seen in almost a century, according to the FBI.
The numbers were part of the FBI’s figures on preliminary annual crime trends titled “First Look: 2025 Crime Data,” which the bureau said provides a faster, “early look” at annual crime trends before the finalized, comprehensive “Crime in the Nation” report is published later in the year.
In addition to declining homicides, the report showed a decrease in robberies — which fell an estimated 18.5% — as well as rapes and aggravated assaults, both of which saw 7% drops.
“The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 – as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
FBI Director Kash Patel praised the decline in violent crime released by the bureau Thursday as part of an “early look” at crime trends.(Anna Moneymaker)
“Over the last 14 months, we made major transformations at the FBI, and these results show those changes are working,” Patel said in a statement. “This FBI will continue to stack these wins for the American people under President Trump and always Back the Blue every step of the way.”
Property crime, which includes offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson, dropped by an estimated 12.4%, the FBI said. This year’s report used data shared by roughly 17,075 law enforcement agencies — 2.4% more agencies than last year — across the U.S., accounting for nearly 96% of U.S. residents, the FBI said.
The report found that 53 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2025, down from 64 in 2024. More than 90,000 were assaulted and 28 were accidentally killed, the FBI said.
Meanwhile, nearly 414,000 arrests were made for violent crimes and another 868,000 for property crimes. The FBI noted that a murder in the U.S. occurred every 37.3 minutes and a violent crime happened every 28.2 seconds.
Meanwhile, a quarterly report released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association said violent crime fell across large U.S. cities in the first months of 2026.
The FBI director said 2025 crime data in a report released Thursday shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937.(Getty Images)
Data collected from 67 responding U.S. police agencies found that homicides fell 17.7%, alongside a 20.4% drop for robberies from Jan. 1 through March 31. Some of the agencies include police departments in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City and Philadelphia.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called on fellow BRICS nations to condemn what he called violations of international law by the United States and Israel, as the war in the Middle East and the related fuel crisis dominate the two-day gathering in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Araghchi accused the United Arab Emirates, a US ally, on Thursday of direct involvement in military operations against Iran, in a rare moment when Iranian and Emirati officials have been in the same room since the US and Israel’s war on Iran began at the end of February.
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Araghchi said Iran was a “victim of illegal expansionism and warmongering”. He urged BRICS+ nations – a grouping comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the UAE – to resist “Western hegemony and the sense of impunity that the US believes it is entitled to”.
“Iran therefore calls upon BRICS member states and all responsible members of the international community to explicitly condemn violations of international law by the United States and Israel,” he said.
Later, Araghchi told the gathering that the UAE was “directly involved in the aggression against my country”, the Iranian semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
In response to the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, Tehran launched strikes on US military sites and assets in Gulf States, including the UAE.
It was not immediately clear how or whether the UAE and other nations attending the BRICS+ meeting had responded to Araghchi’s remarks.
India was hosting the foreign ministers from the expanded BRICS bloc, which now includes Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE – countries at odds over the war in the Middle East.
“We meet at a time of considerable flux in international relations,” India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in his opening speech, before closed meetings began.
Divided BRICS ‘not good’
Disruptions around Gulf shipping routes and the Strait of Hormuz continue to drive volatility in oil and gas markets, increasing pressure on energy-importing economies, including India.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs also condemned an attack on an Indian-flagged ship off Oman on Wednesday as “unacceptable” – with all sailors rescued safely by Muscat.
“We deplore the fact that commercial shipping and civilian mariners continue to be targeted,” the foreign ministry said, without giving further details of who launched the attack.
Araghchi insisted that the Strait of Hormuz “is open for all” commercial vessels that “cooperate” with its navy.
The US and Israel’s war on Iran has added strain to India’s economy, heavily reliant on Middle Eastern energy supplies and fertiliser imports, and has cast uncertainty over India’s growth outlook.
India, the world’s third-largest oil buyer, normally sources about half of its crude through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway through which about 20 percent of the world’s oil passes in peacetime.
India will hold a BRICS leaders’ summit later this year, and the foreign ministers will also meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the foreign ministry said.
With deep divisions among some members over the war in the Middle East, it was not clear whether BRICS, which operates on consensus, would release a joint statement at the meeting’s end.
Iran’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi told news agency Press Trust of India that “one member country” had pushed for language condemning Iran, complicating efforts to build consensus within the grouping.
“We want India’s BRICS chairship to be successful. It is not a good approach to send a signal to the world that the BRICS is divided,” Gharibabadi said.
Another weekend of chaos approaches in the world of California girls’ track and field, as an ongoing Title IX crisis has rattled parents in the southern region of the state.
Crean Lutheran High School senior Reese Hogan came in second place to a trans athlete in girls’ high jump at the first round of the sectional preliminary round of the state tournament last Saturday. Hogan finished second to that same trans athlete in the sectional final last season, and went viral for stepping up to the first-place pedestal after the trans athlete stepped down.
Crean Lutheran High School senior track and field star Reese Hogan speaks at a ‘Save Girls Sports’ rally.(Courtesy of Alyssa Cruz)
Now, as Hogan prepares to face that trans athlete again in this year’s sectional finals on Saturday, her parents are publicly condemning Gov. Gavin Newsom, for allowing a trans athlete to compete against and beat their daughter in the state tournament for the third year in a row.
“As a parent witnessing the current state of high school athletics, I am deeply disappointed by Governor Newsom’s recent comments regarding transgender participation in girls’ sports,” read a statement from Hogan’s parents to Fox News Digital.
“While the Governor has previously acknowledged that this is an issue of ‘fairness,’ his more recent rhetoric—which labels those advocating for protected female categories as ‘bullies’—is both dismissive and profoundly out of touch with the reality our daughters face on the field and the track.”
Hogan is a Freeway League Field Player of the Year and has set her school’s record in the triple jump. Her athletic accomplishments have been a source of pride and emotion for her whole family.
“Watching a child dedicate years of their life to a sport is a journey marked by sacrifice. We have seen Reese work through grueling hours of practice, push through physical injuries, and overcome mental hurdles, all for the chance to compete,” the statement continued.
Now the parents are pleading for a fair chance for their daughter in her senior year, as she has one last chance to win a sectional and state championship.
“As parents, we don’t ask for a path cleared of obstacles; we ask for a level playing field where hard work and biological reality are respected. As the season enters CIF divisional finals, then on to Masters and eventually State the stakes are no longer about ‘participation.’ These athletes are competing for much more: state titles which is the culmination of years of dedication and focus,” the statement said.
“Podium Placements, which are often the gateway to collegiate scouting and scholarships. Record books which should reflect the highest achievements within the female category. No athlete at this level wants a shared trophy designed to avoid political friction. They want the titles they earn through sweat and merit.”
California high school girls wear “Protect Girls Sports” shirts at a postseason track meet at Yorba Linda High School on May 10, 2025.(Reese Hogan/Courtesy of Reese Hogan)
“When policies prioritize gender identity over biological sex in competitive sports, they effectively tell our daughters that their hard work is secondary to a political narrative. It is heart-wrenching to watch and realize that no amount of extra training can bridge the physiological gap present in these competitions.”
A source at Newsom’s office previously provided a statement to Fox News Digital in response to news that a “Save Girls Sports” rally, which Hogan attended, would be held at last Saturday’s meet.
“The Governor has said discussions on this issue should be guided by fairness, dignity, and respect. He rejects the right wing’s cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids. The Governor’s position is simple: stand with all kids and stand up to bullies,” the statement read.
“California is one of 22 states that have laws requiring students be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school sports consistent with their gender identity. California passed this law in 2013 (AB 1266) and it was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.”
Hogan herself spoke out against Newsom at the rally last Saturday.
“The recent statements coming from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office have made it clear that there is no intention of creating a safe, fair, and equitable environment for female high school athletes. Him and his office have gone as far as calling young girls bullies for speaking up for what we believe in,” Hogan said.
“The governor himself has admitted that males competing in women’s sports is unfair, yet nothing is being done to protect girls who train every day to compete on a level playing field.”
Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai has claimed that there is sufficient stock of petrol and diesel available in the state. The residents of the state do not need to worry in any way. He said that fuel is being supplied regularly in all the oil depots of the state and the distribution system is being operated smoothly. The state government and oil companies are continuously monitoring the situation with full coordination.
CM said, “Keeping in mind the global circumstances, the Government of India has ensured effective preparations.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji has appealed to the countrymen to avoid unnecessary shopping and collecting. Do not pay attention to any rumour. I also urge the people of the state to show restraint, awareness and responsibility. Take fuel only as per requirement and stay away from any misleading information.
Adequate stock of petrol and diesel is available in Chhattisgarh. The people of the state do not need to worry of any kind.
Fuel is being supplied regularly in all the oil depots of the state and the distribution system is being operated smoothly. State government and oil companies…
‘With patience and cooperation the fuel system will remain smooth’
Chief Minister Sai further said, “With your alertness, restraint and cooperation, the fuel system of the entire country including Chhattisgarh will remain smoothly. Come, let us all together prove ourselves as responsible citizens. Make sure to contribute to the national interest with patience, cooperation and positive thinking. Let us all together become responsible citizens. Ensure your contribution to the national interest with patience, cooperation and positive thinking.
In fact, long queues are being seen at petrol pumps in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In this, someone has been waiting for his turn since morning, while someone has burnt as much petrol as he had gone to get filled while visiting various petrol pumps. The situation is such that people’s daily routine has been completely affected. Office goers are worried. Parents of school children are worried and the biggest problem is faced by those people whose employment depends on vehicles.
People troubled by huge shortage of petrol and diesel in Raipur
In many petrol pumps of the capital, petrol has reportedly either run out or is being given in limited quantity. Even after standing in the queue for hours, people are not sure whether there will be petrol left till their turn comes or not. On the other hand, videos of long queues at petrol pumps are becoming increasingly viral on social media, which is clearly showing the seriousness of the situation. The long queues of bikes and cars at petrol pumps have made everyone worried that the petrol pump might run dry by the time their turn comes.
A developer from the occupied West Bank is turning a 75-year-old Palestinian folk tale into a video game, and the fight to make it mirrors the story inside it. Dreams on a Pillow follows a mother displaced during the 1948 Nakba. We spoke to developer Rasheed Abueideh.
The White House described how President Donald Trump had a “good meeting” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, saying in its readout that the two sides discussed ways to “enhance economic cooperation,” expand market access for American business into China and “increase Chinese investment into our industries.”
“Leaders from many of the United States’ largest companies joined a portion of the meeting,” the White House noted. “The Presidents also highlighted the need to build on progress in ending the flow of fentanyl precursors into the United States, as well as increasing Chinese purchases of American agricultural products.”
The White House said the U.S. and China agreed that the Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon.
China’s President Xi Jinping (R) and U.S. President Donald Trump visit the Temple of Heaven on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China.(Brendan Smialowski – Pool/Getty Images)
China and the U.S. are both nuclear-armed nations.
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026.(Kenny HOLSTON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
“The two sides agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to support the free flow of energy. President Xi also made clear China’s opposition to the militarization of the Strait and any effort to charge a toll for its use, and he expressed interest in purchasing more American oil to reduce China’s dependence on the Strait in the future. Both countries agreed that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon,” the White House noted.
While Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. position on Taiwain remains unchanged following Trump and Xi’s meeting, China’s foreign ministry said “Xi stressed that the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations.”
“If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy. ‘Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water. Safeguarding peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait is the biggest common denominator between China and the U.S.,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “The U.S. side must exercise extra caution in handling the Taiwan question.”
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Uri Weltmann was tense. He’s the national field director for Standing Together, an organisation of Jewish and Palestinian peace activists, who had gathered to resist the tens of thousands of far-right Jewish marchers heading for occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City.
He had reason to be worried. ‘Jerusalem Day’, marked by Jewish Israelis every year to celebrate the 1967 capture and subsequent illegal occupation of the city, has become an opportunity for thousands to be bussed in from across Israel and the occupied West Bank to participate in the ‘Flag March’, where they maraud through the Old City and attack Palestinians – as well as Jewish peace activists. Palestinians from outside the Old City were not allowed in by police.
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This year’s event on Thursday saw fighting break out even before the march officially began, as ultranationalist Israelis – many of them young teenagers – attacked Palestinians in the Christian Quarter. The Israelis vandalised property, and Israeli police forced Palestinian shop owners to close.
Many other Palestinian businesses had already closed for the day, fearing attacks and harassment.
“It’s gotten much more extreme since October 7,” said Weltmann, referring to the Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023, which led to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Weltmann and approximately 200 other Standing Together activists, wearing purple vests, attempted to stand between the far-right Jewish marchers and Palestinians, but were often attacked themselves.
As in previous years, the marchers shouted anti-Palestinian slogans, including ‘May your village burn’ and ‘Death to Arabs’. They have also been filmed spitting and hurling insults at Palestinians.
Police have so far arrested 13 people, including both Jews and Palestinians.
The ultranationalist marchers have the full support of the Israeli government. Earlier in the day, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led a large group of Jewish Israelis into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, where he displayed the Israeli flag in front of the Dome of the Rock.
Jordan condemned Ben-Gvir’s stunt, with the Foreign Ministry calling it a “blatant violation of international law, an unacceptable provocation, and a flagrant breach of the historical and legal status quo”.
Jordan runs the Jerusalem Waqf Department, which supervises the holy sites in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a long-standing agreement. Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of any future Palestinian state.
Violent society
Last year, hordes of far-right and ultra-Orthodox marchers flooded into the city, attacking Palestinians and chanting racist slogans. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz described the event as a state-sanctioned invitation for ultranationalist groups to enter the Muslim Quarter, smashing shop signs, breaking locks, battering metal doors with flagpoles and plastering racist stickers across large parts of the Old City.
Weltmann said that the violence and anti-Palestinian rhetoric that characterised ‘Jerusalem Day’ had already been increasing in tandem with the growth of the far-right ultranationalist movement in Israel pre-2023.
Fuelling much of the violence, Weltmann said, was a police force overseen by Ben-Gvir, whose responsibility for policing the events has often run counter to his active participation in it.
The Religious Zionism movement, which has drawn in much of Israel’s far-right, has been steadily increasing since Israel’s disengagement from Gaza in 2005, when many in Israel’s settler community first began to feel that the land captured in 1967 – Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights – may be under threat, analysts told Al Jazeera.
They describe how the Religious Zionist trend has since been adopted and exploited by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his avowedly pro-settler Likud party to wield power and, in the wake of the October 7 attack, underpin its genocidal war on Gaza, killing more than 72,000 Palestinians.
Under the watch of Netanyahu and his far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, the number of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has surged. The self-styled ‘Hilltop Youth‘, a loosely organised network of radical and violent young settlers, have also grown in both visibility and apparent impunity, while settler violence – which has long been a characteristic of Israel’s presence in the occupied West Bank – has exploded.
Israeli Minister of National Security and far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, surrounded by Israeli policemen, waves to other right-wing activists at last year’s Flag March [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]
“There’s a deeply confrontational element to the march,” researcher on Jewish-Arab relations, Eram Tzidkiyahu, said, “It’s not enough for us to celebrate our own victories. It’s about celebrating our victories in the living rooms of the people who lost. Celebrating on your own just doesn’t have the same baggage. It’s about going and chanting from the prayer book, affirming that you are the chosen people, deliberately within the Muslim Quarter [of the Old City].”
“The violence is inherent to that, fuelled by hormonal young men seeking confrontation and united in their absolute rejection of the ‘other’,” he said. “This didn’t start on October 7. It’s deeply rooted into it.”
Passive police
Israeli police have often done little to prevent attacks on Palestinians during the Flag March, and few Jewish Israelis have been punished for the many crimes committed.
“The so-called Flag March … has always been a violent event,” said Ofer Cassif of the left-wing Hadash party, adding that it became more violent in the past few years, especially since October 7.
Cassif accused Netanyahu’s “fascist” government of encouraging the violence.
The Israeli police, which Cassif describes as Ben-Gvir’s “private militia”, did not stop “the violence, the lynchings, the destruction of shops, the aggression and attacks against Palestinians in the Old City, and throughout the city as a whole”.
Young Israelis gather outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls before a march marking Israel’s capture of East Jerusalem in 1967 [File: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP]
However, while it was easy for elements within Israeli society to regard the presence of Ben-Gvir, or the violence of the Flag March itself as somehow exceptional, to do so was to miss the point, observers said, particularly in light of the wars on Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran.
“It’s easy to dismiss Ben-Gvir as a clown,” said Aviv Tatarsky, a researcher at the Ir Amim activist group. “Many Israeli liberals do this to feel better about themselves. It’s easy. They don’t want to recognise that this is part of Israeli society and, as long as they don’t feel confident enough to say in public that, yes, Palestinians do have rights, they’re part of that, too.
“Ben-Gvir is not a clown. He’s Israel: 2026,” Tatarsky continued. “He’s part of a government and society that, despite wars with Iran and Lebanon, still prioritises the removal of Palestinians wherever they may be above everything else.”
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A county clerk in Wisconsin claims that a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent attempted to interview a county election director at her residence and released a statement defending the state’s handling of the 2020 presidential election.
“I can confirm that a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the home of my Elections Director and left her business card,” Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said in a statement on Thursday morning.
“We will be following up to determine the nature of this visit. It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of Milwaukee County’s Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission’s office directly. No dedicated public servant should be subjected to that type of intrusion simply for carrying out her responsibilities with integrity and professionalism.”
Christenson went on to defend the state’s handling of the 2020 presidential election as “fair and transparent” and said “this has been proven repeatedly over the last six years by the post-election canvass, the Presidential Election Recount, State court-based challenge, Federal court-based challenge, the forensic audit by the Wisconsin’s Legislative Audit Bureau, and two additional independent audits. Continuing to relitigate settled questions does not strengthen public confidence in elections but it undermines it.”
An FBI agent and a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer arrest a man near the White House at Farragut Square Path in Washington, D.C., United States, on Sept. 15, 2025.(Photo by Yasin Ozturk /Anadolu via Getty Images)
“While we cooperate with all legitimate law enforcement actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and will defend the rights of voters of Milwaukee County,” Christenson wrote. “Our responsibility as election officials is to safeguard the integrity of the process through facts, transparency, and adherence to the law, and the record clearly demonstrates that those standards were met in 2020.”
Christenson went on to suggest the FBI’s actions are an “attack on democracy.”
Milwaukee County, the largest county in the state, has been a target of conservatives alleging improprieties with the 2020 election, and the FBI has been active across the country investigating election integrity issues.
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke during a press conference at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026.(Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
In January, searched Fulton County Georgia’s main election facility in Union City, near Atlanta, and focused on records connected to the 2020 general election after obtaining a court-approved search warrant, Fox Atlanta reported.
An underlying affidavit revealed the bureau was probing allegations of ballot irregularities and record-keeping failures in Georgia, a state President Donald Trump lost by a razor-thin margin to President Joe Biden that became ground zero for Trump’s election fraud claims in the aftermath of 2020.
In March, the FBI subpoenaed 2020 voting documents in Arizona. Multiple U.S. officials confirmed the election probe to Fox News, saying the DOJ is looking at a large tranche of Arizona data from 2020 and 2024.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
