Archive for August 2025
FBI investigating Minneapolis church shooting as act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime
FBI Director Kash Patel said the department is investigating Wednesday’s mass shooting at a south Minneapolis church as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics. Minneapolis Police say two children were killed and 17 other people, including 14 kids, were injured after a shooter opened fire during a worship service at…
Read MoreGeorgia man sentenced for racially-motivated attack against letter carrier
A Georgia man who threatened a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and then attacked the public servant’s vehicle will spend more than five years in prison. Prosecutors say the Washington County resident was found guilty of a hate crime due to his use of racial slurs against the letter carrier. According to documents provided in…
Read MoreManhunt underway in rugged Australian bush after gunman kills two policemen
Australian police on Wednesday identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country’s southeast. Dezi Freeman, 56, was heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria’s Chief Commissioner of Police…
Read MoreRussia plans to withdraw from Europe’s anti-torture treaty
Moscow’s decision will likely be seen as inconsequential given growing condemnation of widespread human rights abuses committed in Ukraine. Russia plans to formally withdraw from Europe’s convention against torture and inhuman treatment, according to a decree published this week. The resolution by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin calls upon President Vladimir Putin to submit the…
Read MoreIsraeli drone strikes kill six Syrian soldiers in Damascus suburb, reports claim
Syrian state media and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the latest drone strikes on Tuesday in the southern Damascus suburb of Kiswah killed six soldiers. Israeli drone strikes on a southern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus killed six soldiers and wounded others, according to state-run media and Britain-based war monitor Syrian…
Read MoreExplosives found in Burlington apartment linked to suspect in Colchester pipe bomb case, police say
Police have confirmed that their investigation into explosive devices found at an apartment in Burlington is linked to a previous investigation involving a homemade explosive device in Colchester. The Burlington Police Department responded on Sunday afternoon for a report of explosive devices found at an apartment on 90 Pearl Street. Police said they confirmed that…
Read MoreTexas man arrested for allegedly making bomb threats outside ICE facility
Authorities in Dallas arrested a 36-year old man who the Department of Homeland Security says issued bomb threats against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Monday. Shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday, Bratton Dean Wilkinson allegedly approached security officers and showed them what he claimed to be a “detonator” on his wrist, prompting a…
Read MorePorepunkah shooting: Weapons stolen from fatally wounded officers, alleged offender a ‘sovereign citizen’
Sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman is the target of a major manhunt in Victoria’s alpine region after allegedly executing two policemen and wounding a third in an ambush attack at a remote farm near Porepunkah, about 320 kilometres from Melbourne. Freeman, who once described police as terrorist thugs and Nazis when he was arrested in 2020…
Read MoreAustralia expels Iranian diplomats, accuses country of directing antisemitic arson attacks
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October…
Read MoreRight-Wing Terrorist Accused in Fatal Oslo Stabbing; Police Investigate Connections
An 18-year-old Serbian immigrant has been charged with murder with a terrorist motive following the fatal stabbing of a woman at a youth home in Oslo over the weekend. The suspect, identified as Djordje Wilms, is accused of killing 34-year-old Tamima Nibras Juhar, an employee at the home where he resided. The attack occurred late…
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