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Combating Hate by Investigating and Prosecuting Hate Crimes Pursuing Hate Crimes Prosecutions: Since January 2021, charged 100 defendants in over 85 cases and secured more than 85 convictions of defendants charged with bias-motivated crimes. Elevating Hate Crimes Threat Level: Elevating civil rights violations and hate crimes enforcement for prioritization among the FBI’s 56 field offices. Expediting Review of Hate Crimes: Designating the chief of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division to serve as a facilitator for the expedited review of hate crimes. Enhancing State and Local Law Enforcement Training: Launching a hate crimes recognition and reporting training aimed at line-level state and local law enforcement officers and holding trainings for state and local law enforcement on assessing and managing hate crime and domestic extremist violence threats. This training is provided for free to state, local, tribal, territorial, and campus law enforcement agencies via the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services technical assistance program: https://cops.usdoj.gov/cri-tac. more »

"Visit Oyster Bay today, and the Roosevelt name still looms large. There’s an elementary school, an independent bookshop, café and pub, memorial park, beach and arena, all bearing the Roosevelt name in some form, whether it be just “Theodore” or “TR,” Teddy, or even just the familiar, identifiable bespectacled faced TR image. It is likely, without the familial devotion and dedication to history and preservation, led by Ethel Roosevelt, the imprint of Theodore Roosevelt and his large family who once were the pillars of the community might have been forgotten, or at least less present in the town of Oyster Bay, with the passage of time. more »

FTC Issues Annual Report to Congress on Agency’s Actions to Protect Older Adults; Adults 60 and older report losses of $1.6 billion in 2022 to scams. The analysis of fraud reports ...showed that adults aged 60 and over were substantially less likely to report losing money to fraud than adults aged 18-59... Consumers 80 and older reported losing a median of $1,750 to fraud, while those in their 70s reported a median loss of $1,000, with both numbers increasing over 2021...The report calls on Congress to update the FTC Act in response to the Supreme Court’s 2021 ruling in the AMG Capital Management case, which severely limited the FTC’s ability to recover money that older adults and other consumers lose to scammers. more »

"A group of international scientists have mapped the genetic, cellular, and structural makeup of the human brain and the nonhuman primate brain. This understanding of brain structure, achieved by funding through the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® Initiative, or The BRAIN Initiative®, allows for a deeper knowledge of the cellular basis of brain function and dysfunction, helping pave the way for a new generation of precision therapeutics for people with mental disorders and other disorders of the brain."   more »