Archive for July 19, 2024
Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
A Maryland man was sentenced to prison today after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential…
Read MoreDrone Strike By Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Kills 1 Person And Wounds At Least 10 In Tel Aviv
An Iranian-made drone sent by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck Israel on Friday, leaving one person dead and at least 10 wounded in a neighborhood near the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. The aerial strike rumbled through the center of the city, causing shrapnel to rain down and spreading shards of glass over a large radius.…
Read MoreWidespread Technology Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media Outlets And Companies Around The World
A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said that the issue believed to be behind the outage was not a security…
Read MoreFrench police arrest knife-wielding assailant on terrorism charges
French police arrested on Friday a man on terrorism charges accused of trying to murder a taxi driver with a knife while expressing support for Palestinian militant group Hamas, a source at the terrorism prosecutor’s office said. France is on its highest state of security as it gears up to host millions of visitors, athletes…
Read MoreOnline account thought to belong to Trump shooter was fake, source says
A new analysis shows an online account that was believed to belong to the shooter in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump — and where he had purportedly called the date of the attack his “premiere” — was fake, a federal law enforcement official told CBS News on Thursday. A law enforcement official…
Read More30 years later, a ‘push for justice’ over Argentina’s Jewish center bombing
On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with explosives crashed into a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The blast killed 85 people at the Argentinian Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and wounded over 300. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Argentina’s history. Today, 30 years later, Argentinians will gather in their capital — as…
Read MoreFrance races to head off ISIS-K threat to Paris Olympics
Tajik journalist Temur Varki received a disquieting call from Paris police in late March, days after Islamic State militants from his homeland allegedly carried out a massacre in Moscow. The two officers questioned him about France’s tiny community of immigrants from Tajikistan, an impoverished former Soviet republic in Central Asia. “Who do you know? How…
Read MorePakistan arrests Al-Qaeda leader listed by United Nations
Pakistani counter-terror officials have arrested an Al-Qaeda leader, Amin ul Haq, who figures on a U.N. sanctions list, they said on Friday, describing him as a close associate of the dead Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.Pakistan’s first Al-Qaeda arrest in many years comes as the counter-terrorism department (CTD)…
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