Archive for October 2026
Pennsylvania shooter who killed 8 was family’s patriarch, father of toddler killed says
A man whose toddler was among eight people killed in a mass shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, said Sunday that the gunman was a grandfather who never seemed distressed or out of the ordinary. “I think that was a front for him,” Julius Windham said as he stood at a memorial to victims of Friday’s shooting,…
Read MoreSaudi airport passenger terminal is struck again, a day after 12 were killed
A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others. Saudi authorities said one person, described as a Pakistani…
Read MorePolish police detain 135 in nationwide crackdown after school knife attacks
Polish police have detained 135 people and investigated more than 300 suspected criminal incidents as part of a nationwide security operation launched after a series of violent attacks at schools last week. Police said on Monday that officers had inspected nearly 80,000 educational institutions since Friday, recording 311 incidents involving suspected criminal offenses. “Police operations…
Read MoreFrench police arrest 14-year-old after two teaching staff wounded by hunting rifle fire
A middle school headmaster and teacher were wounded by gunfire at the Lakanal school in Aubagne, near Marseille on Monday morning, Education Minister Édouard Geffray said. A pupil at the school was suspected of being behind the attack, Geffray added in a post on X. French authorities arrested a 14-year-old on Monday in connection with…
Read MoreLeader of Global Violent Extremist Network ‘764’ Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Sexually Exploit Minors
Prasan Nepal, 21, also known by the online moniker “Trippy,” of High Point, North Carolina, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child. “This is the latest victory in the FBI’s work with partners to dismantle the violent 764 network,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “Prasan Nepal, a leader of 764,…
Read MoreSaudi authorities say 3 killed in Houthi-claimed attacks on Riyadh airport
An airline pilot was among three Saudi citizens killed in attacks targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft, the kingdom’s civil aviation authority said on Friday. Several people “of different nationalities” were wounded. The attacks on Thursday were the deadliest in Saudi Arabia since the kingdom and allied forces in neighboring Yemen…
Read MoreRussian strikes across Ukraine kill 3 people as Kyiv struggles to counter escalating attacks
Russian strikes killed three people and wounded at least eight across Ukraine, officials said Friday, as Ukraine struggles to counter escalating Russian bombardments that have killed more than 50 people over the past three days. One man was killed and five people were wounded in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region in the morning hours,…
Read MoreJustice Department and FBI Seize Vulnerability Scanning and Spear Phishing Tools Operated and Used by China-State Sponsored Hackers
Today the Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized seizures to deny malicious cyber actors access to two hacking tools, “Microscan” and “FishHub,” used to scan and, in some cases, hack, U.S. and foreign critical infrastructure systems and other networks. As alleged in court documents unsealed in the Western District of Pennsylvania, malicious cyber actors working…
Read MoreTwo Latvian men arrested at RAF base in Cambridgeshire used by US military
Two Latvian men were arrested in the early hours of Thursday after they were discovered inside the perimeter of RAF Molesworth, a Cambridgeshire base used by the US military and Nato for intelligence operations. The men, 32 and 36, were picked up at 2am inside the base, in an investigation that began four hours earlier…
Read MoreNorthshore brothers accused in Hamas funding pipeline face new charges; wives arrested in Medicaid fraud case
The wives of two Northshore brothers accused of helping funnel money to Hamas have been arrested along with another family member in a separate Medicaid fraud investigation. It comes just days after Abdel and Omar Adhami, both of Covington, were arrested. The two already face federal charges accusing them of providing money to a financing…
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