Archive for April 2026
Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Arson and Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Today, Regan Darby Prater, 28, currently of Tullahoma, Tennessee, entered a guilty plea to one count of arson and one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Prater pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville. Sentencing has been set before U.S. District…
Read MoreSweden thwarted 2025 pro-Russian cyber attack on thermal power plant
Sweden thwarted a pro-Russian cyber attack on a thermal power plant in mid-2025, the government said on Wednesday, saying the group behind it was linked to Russian intelligence. There were no serious consequences, Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said. “The Swedish Security Service handled the case and was able to identify the actor behind it,…
Read MoreSuspicious device at St. Patrick’s Day parade was planted by fire official, cops say
The Brookdale Community College fire official who alerted authorities to a suspicious device at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Keansburg last month is accused of putting it there, officials said. Christopher J. Otis, 56, is charged with possession of a destructive device, creating a false public alarm and providing false information to an officer,…
Read MoreChild charged after threat made against Georgia elementary school
A juvenile has been arrested after police say a threat was made against an elementary school in west Georgia. LaGrange police received information Tuesday about a potential threat involving Clearview Elementary School. The case was turned over to the department’s Criminal Investigation Division, which determined that the threat was made through a social media account.…
Read MoreGunman opens fire at high school in Turkey, wounding at least 16
A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, an official said. The 18-year-old attacker, armed with a shotgun, fired randomly at a vocational high school in Siverek, Sanliurfa province, before hiding inside the building. He later killed himself with the same…
Read MoreU.K. inquiry lays bare ‘catastrophic’ missed chances before stabbings at dance class
A mass killing by a British teenager who fatally stabbed three girls and seriously wounded 10 other people at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in 2024 “could and should have been prevented” if his parents and state agencies had acted as his well-known fixation on violence escalated, according to a report released Monday. Adrian Fulford,…
Read More3 Teens Face Charges After Threatening Clinton Middle School Shooting; Multiple Firearms Secured
A reported threat of a shooting at the Clinton Middle School cafeteria led to multiple juveniles being investigated and firearms secured in the Town of Kirkland. According to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded at 1:42 a.m. on April 11 to an address in Kirkland after a threat was made about a shooting planned…
Read MoreLebanon and Israel to hold rare direct talks in Washington despite Hezbollah opposition
Lebanese and Israeli representatives are scheduled to meet in Washington Tuesday for US-mediated talks on ending the war in Lebanon, but the prospects of an agreement appear slim. Naim Qassem – the leader of pro-Iran Hezbollah, which is battling Israel – called for the talks to be scrapped before they even began, describing them as…
Read MoreBrazil’s former spy chief who fled country arrested by ICE agents in US
When Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for an attempted coup, six other members of his cabinet were also found guilty and all began serving their sentences – except for one. Days before the verdict, Alexandre Ramagem, Bolsonaro’s former spy chief, fled by car to Guyana and boarded…
Read MoreSuspect in attack at Sam Altman’s house aimed to kill OpenAI CEO, warned of humanity’s extinction from AI
A man accused of throwing a lit Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home last week was trying to kill him, and was motivated by hatred of artificial intelligence technology, prosecutors said Monday. The suspect, Daniel Moreno-Gama, is being charged with attempted murder in the case, the San Francisco District Attorney…
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