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Police: Teenage girls planned shooting and pipe bomb attack at Memorial High School in Spring Branch ISD
Police are investigating after two students were accused of threatening to place pipe bombs in a Houston high school and shoot peers, according to police. The two teenage girls were in custody. According to authorities, one of the suspects, a Willis High School student, is currently being held on unrelated charges, while the second suspect,…
Read MoreCambria County man arrested over alleged mass shooting threat
A Salix man has been charged after he allegedly said he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a grocery store in Cambria County while speaking in an Xbox chat. Dylan Shaffer, 25, has been charged after an online friend from Minnesota reached out to police about a mass shooting threat that he allegedly made,…
Read MoreMan who allegedly threatened to kill Jewish people arrested near NYC after driving from Utah
A man who allegedly threatened on social media to kill Jewish people was arrested just outside New York City after driving across the country from Utah, according to NYPD officials. The suspect, Luis Ramirez, drove from Utah through Kansas City to Philadelphia, continuing to make threats along the way, police officials said. NYPD detectives and…
Read MoreMan sentenced to 10 years for pipe bomb attack on former PM Kishida
A Japanese court sentenced a man to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the attempted murder in 2023 of then Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a pipe bomb attack at an election event. In the trial at the Wakayama District Court, prosecutors sought 15 years in prison for Ryuji Kimura, 25, for attempting to…
Read MoreASIO boss reveals multiple nations plotted to murder critics in Australia
Intelligence officials have disrupted numerous attempts by hostile countries to kill or harm critics in Australia, and in one recent operation even thwarted a plot to lure an unsuspecting human rights activist overseas, who was to be silenced in an “accident”. The boss of the country’s domestic intelligence agency has delivered his annual threat assessment,…
Read MoreAustrian authorities arrest teen for plotting Vienna railway station attack
A teenager has been arrested for allegedly plotting an attack on a major railway station in Vienna. A 14-year-old Austrian supporter of the so-called Islamic State group was arrested on 10 February for allegedly planning an attack at a railway station in Vienna, authorities revealed Wednesday. The suspect, an Austrian national with Turkish roots, is…
Read MoreUS declares Tren de Aragua, other cartels are global terrorist organizations
The United States on Wednesday designated Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa cartel and other drug cartels as global terrorist organizations, according to a Federal Register notice. The U.S. State Department notice said the groups pose a risk to U.S. national security, foreign policy and economic interests. President Donald Trump, a Republican, issued an executive order…
Read MoreFlorida man charged with attempted murder after shooting 2 men he thought were Palestinians
A Florida man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after opening fire on two men in Miami Beach who he thought were Palestinians. According to an arrest report, Mordechai Brafman shot at the men 17 times in the “unprovoked” attack, telling officers that while driving his truck, he “saw two Palestinians” and…
Read MoreSudan: At least 200 killed in paramilitary attack
Sudan’s paramilitary forces launched a three-day assault near Khartoum, killing more than 200, the Emergency Lawyers network said Tuesday. The rights group said hundreds were injured or missing, and that hundreds had been subjected to “executions, kidnappings, forced disappearances and looting.” The lawyers’ network said the paramilitaries shot at villagers as they were trying to…
Read MoreAustrian knife attack suspect was radicalised on TikTok, officials say
The 23-year-old Syrian refugee believed to have killed a teenager and injured five other people in a weekend stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach became radicalised quickly by using TikTok, officials said on Monday. The suspect, identified as Ahmad G., had the flag of the Islamic State militant group in his apartment but…
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