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							<title><![CDATA[Plunge in America's Murder Rate Is Excellent News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/nobody-really-knows-why-the-murder-rate-is-plummeting/ar-AA1VYEmD</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Asher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Amid the daily horrors of President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s second term, it can be easy to overlook an unambiguous piece of excellent news: many fewer Americans are killing each other.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need to Understand America's Spike in Murders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/opinions/murder-in-us-cities-better-data-asher/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Asher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Learning why murder becomes more or less prevalent could help officials make better decisions about deploying police, regulating guns and designing, financing and providing social services. But without national data infrastructure about crime, argues Jeff Asher, none of that can happen.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of Murder Spike]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/gun-sales-murder-spike/621196/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Asher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A massive increase in gun sales in early 2020 seems to have contributed to the recent rise in homicides.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can't Trust Devin Nunes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/opinions/nunes-memo-opinion-asher-bakos-otis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jeff Asher</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who recused himself from the Russia investigation in April after investigators were asked to look into whether he revealed classified information -- has demonstrated over the past year he cannot be counted on to perform...]]></description>
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