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CHICAGO — As a little girl in the 1980s, Khalalisa Norris aspired to become a letter carrier. She’d sit on her front porch in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood and wait for her local mailman, and eventual mail lady, each day.

In her 20s, Norris realized her dream, and ever since, she’s delivered mail on Chicago’s West Side.

But that dream became a nightmare....

As United States Postal Service letter carriers face increasing violence and assaults on the job, the police officers who could protect them have been sidelined by the government, a new Raw Story investigation revealed.

With letter carrier robberies skyrocketing by 543 percent between 2019 and 2022, the issue has spurred a bipartisan group of Congress members to introduce legislation aimed at providing more secure mailbox equipment and better protecting letter carriers.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who introduced the Protect our Letter Carriers Act last week, said Raw Story's investigation should urge Congress to turn the bill into law....

WASHINGTON – Henry A. Kissinger is gone, and many lawmakers on Capitol Hill hope he’s soon forgotten.

Kissinger was 100 years old when he died at his Connecticut home Wednesday.

While Kissinger is hailed by many for helping open relations with Maoist China – he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 – he’s also decried as a “war criminal” for orchestrating an illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia that left hundreds of thousands of innocents dead....