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The Brennan Center for Justice has just updated its annual crime report, and the surge in violent crime and murder rates across the country is somewhat staggering.  While the Brennan Center continues to downplay the YoY increases, saying "concerns about a national crime wave are still premature," the numbers seem to paint a different story with murder rates in the largest 30 U.S. cities expected to increase 15.5% in 2016.  Meanwhile, that number would be over 17% if the study reflected the most recent 2016 Chicago murder estimate of 800.

Following an awkward admission earlier on Tuesday that the German police may have detained the wrong person, moments ago Reuters reported that Germany's chief federal prosecutor office said the detained suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack has been released, adding that he does not have enough evidence up to now to pursue case against the suspect.

"The investigation up to now did not yield any urgent suspicion against the accused," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

German police are on high alert and have said they may have arrested the wrong man over the Berlin  attack, and the real culprit could still be at large and armed and dangerous. Germany’s chief prosecutor Peter Frank told a press conference: “We must get used to the idea that he was possibly not the perpetrator or that he didn’t belong to the group of perpetrators” Police meanwhile have urged people to remain “particularly vigilant” and to report “suspicious movement” to a special hotline.

A judge has ordered the FBI to publish evidence relating to its investigation of Hillary Clinton and a child sex ring in Washington. Last November, a State Department official confirmed that the FBI were investigating Hillary Clinton’s connection to an elite Washington pedophile ring According to sources, files found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop showed evidence of a political pedophile ring operating within Washington, implicating Washington’s elite as well as Clinton and her aides.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde was found guilty of one count of negligence by a French court today, according to Bloomberg News. She was accused of failing to prevent a massive government payout to businessman Bernard Tapie eight years ago, while serving as France’s finance minister, but most surprising, she will face no fine or jail sentence.