Archive for December 7, 2023
Man arrested after threatening to commit school shooting at Poway Unified elementary school
A 38-year-old man is in custody after San Diego Police said he threatened to commit a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary in Carmel Mountain Ranch. According to police, Lee Lor was arrested Friday in Carlsbad, and charged with one felony count of making criminal threats. According to court documents, Lor e-mailed the school and…
Read MoreUS officials alert religious groups on antisemitism, Islamophobia threats
The U.S. government issued security guidance for faith-based communities on Wednesday as the country faces a terrorism threat level so elevated it prompted the FBI director to say he sees “blinking lights everywhere.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommendations are designed to protect against threats amid heightened antisemitism and Islamophobia since the Oct. 7…
Read MoreUk Says Russia’s Intelligence Service Behind Sustained Attempts To Meddle In British Democracy
Russia’s intelligence services targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to interfere in U.K. political processes, Britain’s government said Thursday. The Foreign Office said Russia’s FSB agency was responsible for a range of cyberespionage operations in the U.K., including targeting British parliamentarians from multiple…
Read MoreVegas Shooter Who Killed 3 Was A Professor Who Recently Applied For A Job At Unlv, Ap Source Says
Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a University of Nevada, Las Vegas building, killing three people and critically wounding a fourth before dying in a shootout with police. The gunman in Wednesday’s shooting was a professor who had unsuccessfully sought a job at the school,…
Read MoreUS throws weight behind Guyana in territorial dispute with Venezuela
The United States says it is fully backing Guyana against Venezuela’s threat to annex its oil-rich western territory as tensions soar over their border dispute. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington’s position that Guyana has full sovereignty over its 159,500sq km (61,600sq-mile) Essequibo region, in a call with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali late…
Read MoreSuspect arrested in Texas fatally shot his parents before killing 4 other people, authorities say
A 34-year-old Texas man who was arrested after a string of homicides is believed to have first fatally shot his parents before killing four other people in another county, authorities said Wednesday. The suspect, identified by police as Shane James, was charged in Travis County with multiple counts of capital murder and is expected to…
Read MoreRussia: 2 dead, several injured in school shooting
A 14-year-old girl shot and killed a classmate and wounded five others before killing herself at a school in the western Russian city of Bryansk, investigators said Thursday. Regional Governor Alexander Bogomaz described the shooting as a “terrible tragedy.” He said the five people wounded were all children with minor or moderate injuries. “According to…
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