Archive for March 22, 2024
Top Russian agency investigating assault on concert hall as a terrorist attack
Russia’s top investigative agency is investigating the shootings, explosions and fire at a Moscow concert hall as a terrorist attack. The Investigative Committee said it has opened a criminal probe into the charges, though it didn’t say who might be behind the attack. Several gunmen burst into a big concert hall on the edge of…
Read MoreMiddletown ‘sovereign citizen’ gets prison for guns inside Langhorne-Yardley Road home
A “sovereign citizen” who rejects government authority and drew the attention of Middletown police, neighbors and motorists passing his Langhorne house was sentenced from 28 to 56 years in state prison Wednesday for illegally possessing a cache of high-powered firearms. At his trial in Doylestown, Bucks County, authorities testified about discovering the high-powered firearms that…
Read MoreRussia Attacks Ukrainian Electrical Power Facilities, Including Major Hydroelectric Plant
Russia attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages and killing at least three people, officials said Friday. Energy Minister German Galushchenko said the nighttime drone and rocket attacks were “the largest attack on the Ukrainian energy sector in recent times. The goal is not just…
Read MorePolice Track Down Escaped Idaho Prison Gang Member And Accomplice, Say Pair May Have Killed 2 On Run
Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run. Skylar Meade, the escaped inmate, and Nicholas Umphenour, the…
Read MoreIslamic State group claims responsibility for bombing at Afghan bank and says it targeted Taliban
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted people trying to collect their salaries at a bank in southern Afghanistan. The bombing Thursday at a branch of New Kabul Bank in Kandahar city killed three people and wounded 12 others. All of the victims had gathered there to collect their monthly…
Read MoreBerlin Summons Iran Ambassador Over 2022 Synagogue Plot
Germany on Wednesday said it had summoned the Iranian ambassador over an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in 2022 that Berlin believes was planned with the help of Tehran. A German Iranian national was sentenced in December to two years and nine months in prison in the plot to attack a synagogue in the…
Read MoreHackney house fire could be antisemitic attack, police say
Police are investigating whether a house fire in east London that destroyed two floors of a three-storey house was an antisemitic hate crime. A man in his 60s, who was arrested near the scene in Hackney, had made threatening and “allegedly antisemitic” comments, the Met Police said. Four people were injured but none are in…
Read MoreCapitol rioter who wanted to be ‘lone-wolf killer’ charged with violating anti-stalking order
A Silver Spring man who spent four months in prison for his role in the Capitol riot now faces three new criminal counts for allegedly violating an anti-stalking order against a D.C. activist. Bryan Betancur Battisti, 26, appeared in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday for arraignment on three counts of contempt of an anti-stalking order.…
Read MoreCalifornia man sentenced to life for ‘boogaloo movement’ killing of federal security guard
A Northern California man who was part of the loosely organized anti-government “ boogaloo movement ” was sentenced to life in prison Friday for his role in the shooting death of a federal security guard and wounding of another. Robert Allen Justus was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the Bay Area News…
Read MoreCoast Guard investigators seek to identify voice in as many as 16 hoax calls
U.S. Coast Guard investigators are seeking the public’s help to identify a voice in apparent hoax calls. Investigators said a series of as many as 16 falsified distress calls were transmitted over VHF channel 16 beginning on Feb. 17. The calls are believed to have originated from the Strawberry Point area in Baltimore and consist…
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