Archive for February 2024
NYC woman convicted of using bitcoins to fund terrorism in Syria
Victoria Jacobs could spend up to 25 years in prison. The 44-year-old woman was found guilty of funneling funds to U.S.-listed terrorist groups in Syria, using cryptocurrency to evade detection. A Manhattan jury convicted Jacobs of three felony counts of providing support for an act of terrorism, as well as conspiracy, money laundering and criminal…
Read MorePakistan: At least 10 killed in attack on police station
At least 10 officers have been killed in an hours-long assault on a police station in Pakistan. The officers lost their lives after more than 30 militants launched the attack in the early hours of Monday. Four others were injured in the two-and-a-half hour battle, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial police chief told news agency AFP. It…
Read MoreMan sentenced to 10 years for starting fire inside Target headquarters during riot
A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for starting a fire inside Target headquarters during a riot in August 2020, U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced Wednesday. Leroy Lemonte Perry Williams, 37, was convicted on one count of arson for the incident in October last year. The fire occurred on Aug.…
Read MoreFormer college professor pleads guilty to arson spree as crews fought Dixie Fire
A former college professor has pleaded guilty to a string of arson fires in Northern California in 2021 as fire crews were battling the second-largest fire in the state’s history. Gary Stephen Maynard, 49, of San Jose, pleaded guilty to three arson counts in connection to fires in the Shasta National Forest and near the…
Read MoreA UK lawmaker says he’s quitting Parliament after death threats and an arson attack
A Conservative lawmaker in Britain said Thursday he will step down when an election is called later this year because of abuse and death threats he says are linked to his support for Israel. Mike Freer said an arson attack on his office in December was the “final straw.” He told the BBC that when…
Read MoreCrypto exchange Binance sued by Hamas hostages, Oct. 7 victims’ families for allegedly ‘facilitating terrorism’
An American woman freed after being held hostage in Gaza and the families of two men killed in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel sued Binance, the leading cryptocurrency exchange, which they accused of providing a funding mechanism for Hamas. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court Thursday, also named Iran and Syria and is…
Read MoreEx-CIA hacker who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years
A man convicted of carrying out one of the most damaging data breaches in the CIA’s history — the public disclosure of secret hacking tools — was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, prosecutors said. Former CIA officer Joshua Adam Schulte, 35, was convicted of the so-called Vault 7 leak, and also of…
Read MoreSouth Korean court convicts 23-year-old man in car-and-stabbing attack that killed 2
A South Korean judge convicted a man of murder Thursday for an unprovoked car-and-stabbing rampage that killed two people and injured 12 others in a city near Seoul last year. Prosecutors had sought a death penalty for 23-year-old Choi Won-jong, who was arrested in August after he rammed his car into pedestrians in a bustling…
Read MoreUS hits Houthi UAVs, ground control station in Yemen
U.S. military forces early Thursday morning conducted what Central Command called a “self-defense” strike against Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles and a ground control station. According to Centcom, the U.S. had identified a UAV ground control station and a number of UAVs in the Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The military “determined that they presented an imminent…
Read MoreGunmen Take Hostages At Us Company’s Turkish Factory In Apparent Protest Of Gaza War
Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing what appeared to be a…
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