Archive for September 2023
Monterrey gangs: Bodies dumped in Mexico’s business capital
The mutilated remains of up to a dozen people were found strewn across the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday. Messages left with the remains suggest the victims were killed as part of a purge within a gang. Monterrey is the industrial and business capital of Mexico and the seat of many large companies.…
Read MorePolice say they thwarted ‘potential active shooter’ outside church in Virginia
A Virginia man was arrested at a church after allegedly being found inside with a loaded semi-automatic pistol with an additional magazine, a folding knife and a folding “credit card”-style knife, according to police. Fairfax County police arrested 35-year-old Rui Jiang after becoming tipped off by a Maryland woman who called Anne Arundel Police to…
Read MoreIraq vows it ‘will not be lenient’ with Elizabeth Tsurkov’s kidnappers
Iraq has said it will show no leniency to the kidnappers of an Israeli-Russian researcher who has been missing for more than six months, as international pressure mounts on Baghdad to move forward with the investigation. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a PhD student at Princeton University in the US, who was conducting research in Baghdad when she…
Read MoreHow white supremacist fight clubs are building covert far-right militias
White supremacist groups using the guise of fitness and martial arts to attract and grow their numbers are effectively creating a new militia network, with dozens of chapters forming in the US, Canada and across Europe within just three years, according to a newly published report from extremism researchers. At least 46 so-called “active clubs”…
Read MoreA trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State
It wasn’t the deadliest attack in Europe linked to the Islamic State group, but it was among the most disturbing: One evening in 2016, an assailant killed two police officers in their family home, in front of their 3-year-old son. On Monday, a trial opened in a French counterterrorism court over the attack in the…
Read MoreUS Military Captures Key Islamic State Militant During Helicopter Raid in Syria
The U.S. military said Monday it had captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria. The operator, Abu Halil al-Fad’ani, “was assessed to have relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. His capture on Saturday increases the chance that…
Read MoreRecent antisemitic incident at Montgomery Co. high school raises concerns about hate across Maryland
There’s an increased need to take “concrete steps to confront antisemitism” in Montgomery County, Maryland, said Alan Ronkin, the regional director of the American Jewish Committee. The AJC released a statement following the report of students who, according to Montgomery Blair High School principal Renay Johnson, performed an “antisemitic salute” outside the school building during…
Read More17 Hells Angels, associates face charges after hate-attack in Ocean Beach: San Diego DA
Seventeen people have been indicted on various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased and attacked in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood on…
Read MoreArkansas man arrested for possessing booby traps, explosives
A Johnson County man has been arrested for allegedly possessing booby traps and homemade explosives. Tristan Justice, of Ozone, was arrested for possession of a booby trap, criminal use of a prohibited weapon, possession of explosive material or a destructive device, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while suspended. A release from…
Read MoreEl Paso Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution in federal case
The gunman who killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution to those impacted by the shooting. Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the attack, reached…
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