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P/C Insurers Face Challenging Claims Dynamics as Frequency, Severity Rise: Swiss Re

The property/casualty insurance industry is confronting challenging claims dynamics, with rising frequency and severity of claims despite decreases in economic inflation, according to Swiss Re. The pace of claims growth in the liability line of business challenges the insurability of …

Mobs of Masked Teens Ransacked Philadelphia Stores. Police Say 15 to 20 Have Been Arrested

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Groups of teenagers swarmed into stores in several areas of Philadelphia in an apparently coordinated effort, stuffing plastic bags with merchandise and fleeing, authorities said. Police arrested 15 to 20 people. The flash mob-style ransacking Tuesday night …

Judge Awards Black Church $1 Million After BLM Banner Burned by Proud Boys During Protest

WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, D.C. that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. …

Atlanta Police Motorcycles Burned in Fire Started by ‘Incendiary Devices,’ Officials Say

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Police Department motorcycles were damaged in an intentional fire caused by devices set inside a training facility early Saturday, officials said. The Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department responded to reports of a multi-vehicle fire around 2:20 …

Feds: Man Tried to Firebomb Ohio Church to Stop Drag Show

An eastern Ohio man told investigators that he tried to burn down an Ohio church because he wanted to prevent a drag show that was scheduled to take place there, federal prosecutors allege in newly unsealed charges. Aimenn Penny, a …

War, Inflation, Polarization Driving Global Increase in Political Risk

Inflation, social inequality, environmental concerns, political polarization and the Russia-Ukraine war are among factors that are leading to an increase risk of civil unrest around the world, according to two reports released by industry analysts in the past month. A …

Violent Protest in Downtown Atlanta over Killing of Activist

ATLANTA (AP) — A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed this week after authorities said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper. Masked activists dressed …

Judge Slashes Damages Awarded in Deadly Charlotteville Rally

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has slashed millions of dollars from the damages a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay for their role in the violence that erupted during the deadly “Unite the Right” rally …

Drag Story Time at Oregon Pub Draws Gun-Carrying Protesters

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Protesters, some of them armed, threw rocks and smoke grenades at each other outside a drag queen story time event at an Oregon pub, but the weekend show that was to have featured a child performer …

Abortion Rights Protest in Portland Turns Destructive

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An abortion rights protest in Portland, Oregon turned destructive over the weekend, with some people marching down the street breaking windows on businesses and vehicles and scrawling graffiti, police said. Officers were monitoring the crowed but …