Archive for September 2025
Would-be Trump assassin tries to stab himself in neck after guilty verdict
Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump as the former and future president played a round of golf on his Florida course last year – the second attempt on Trump’s life during his second campaign – has been found guilty on all charges against him. Routh tried to stab himself in…
Read MoreSchool shooting fears provoked Monday’s lockdown at Albert Lea schools
Law enforcement is now saying what spurred the lockdown at four Albert Lea schools was the threat of a school shooting. The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office says it got a tip from the FBI on Friday of a brief Discord conversation in which one individual expressed interest in committing a school shooting and livestreaming it.…
Read MoreSuspect charged with arson after fire at a Florida synagogue days before Rosh Hashanah
A 31-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a fire at a synagogue last week that investigators in southwest Florida are treating as a hate crime. Blake Richard Hoover was arrested Monday and charged with arson and criminal mischief to a church, synagogue, mosque or religious article – both felonies – according to court…
Read MoreNew York man sentenced to 9 years for planning attack on behalf of Islamic State group
A New York man accused of plotting an attack on behalf of the Islamic State group in 2019 was sentenced to nine years in prison by a federal judge Tuesday. Awais Chudhary, 25, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan and living in the New York City borough of Queens, pleaded guilty in June to…
Read MoreNorway police investigate explosion in central Oslo
Norwegian police said on Tuesday they were investigating a blast on a street in central Oslo and later conducted a controlled detonation of a second explosive device found on the site, adding that a suspect had been apprehended for questioning. There were no reports of injuries at the location, in the immediate vicinity of a…
Read MoreGA man gets 80 years in prison for mailing bombs to federal buildings he built while behind bars
A Georgia man has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for mailing bombs to federal buildings. David Dwayne Cassady, 57, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted malicious use of explosive materials after constructing and sending explosive devices to the U.S. Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, and the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.…
Read MoreMan Who Shined a Laser at Marine One With Trump Aboard Is Arrested, U.S. Says
A man who aimed a laser pointer at Marine One, the presidential helicopter, as it was departing the White House on Saturday with President Trump aboard was charged with a felony on Monday, the authorities said. The man, Jacob Samuel Winkler, 33, of Washington, D.C., was standing on the sidewalk on Constitution Avenue when a…
Read MoreSacramento ABC TV station building struck by gunfire; suspect in FBI custody
A man arrested in connection with a shooting at a television station building in Sacramento faces federal charges and made a federal court appearance on Monday after he was arrested by the FBI over the weekend. Sacramento police say officers responded to the 400 block of Broadway, the ABC10 building, just after 1:30 p.m. local…
Read MorePlanned shooting stopped at Bay Area high school via Sandy Hook Promise tip line
Thanks to a single voice speaking up, a planned school attack was prevented. A mother is making it her life’s mission to prevent tragedy. Nicole Hockley’s son Dylan was one of 20 children killed in 2012 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Hockley co-founded the nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise. A free resource that teaches…
Read MoreSecret Service dismantles telecom threat around UN capable of crippling cell service in NYC
While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment…
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