The Champaign Illinois thugs' "officer of the year" is now facing trial for violent rape against two (perhaps three) women.

Thugs in Maryland killed an unarmed black man, and say they jumped to the conclusion from his posture that he had a gun.

That is effectively a confession of being too quick to kill.

The Baltimore Thug Department invented an imaginary armed "threat" as an excuse to crack down on the protests over the killing of Freddie Gray by thugs.

These claims were rejected by the FBI, which reported there was no basis for them.

Thugs will keep influencing the public by lying as long as people are willing to believe thugs. It's hard to resist, since (as with any fraudster) most of what they say is true.

"Credit rating agencies are miscalculating risks of climate change."

These agencies are not impartial. They may have a business motive for this. Or perhaps they are only slow to adapt.

Embarrassed by statistics on children living in poverty, the UK government plans to reduce the problem by measuring poverty differently.