The United States is on pace to record its lowest homicide rate in more than a century, according to a report released ...

The national homicide rate plunged to a historic low in 2025 and has continued to fall so far this year – except in eight ...

A few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with breaking its all-time low murder rate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reported rate of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter may be the lowest since reliable national data began to be collected in ...

World Cup visitors discovered something many Americans already know: The United States does not feel like the dangerous place ...

A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows an 18% decrease in the homicide rate across 30 American cities from ...

The United States is experiencing one of the steepest declines in violent crime in modern history, including a murder rate at its lowest point in more than a century. Homicides across 35 major ...

The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history. Preliminary data shows the murder rate fell nearly 20% from 2024, likely making it the lowest rate since reliable national data began ...

The homicide rate for 2025 was 3.5 for every 100,000 people, the lowest since crime recording began six decades ago.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Instead, the national murder rate increased sharply in 2015 and 2016, and then by an ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Tuttle, University of Montana (THE CONVERSATION) The murder rate in 2025 was the ...