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Ukraine Strikes St. Petersburg on First Day of a Marquee Putin Event
Ukrainian drones on Wednesday attacked St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, on the opening day of a major annual economic conference that President Vladimir V. Putin has tried to cultivate into a showcase of a modern and prosperous country. It was the second time in a month that Ukraine had struck a major Russian city before…
Read MoreUN chief proposes options to help end Israel-Hezbollah conflict after peacekeepers leave Lebanon
The United Nations chief has proposed three options to help end the decades-old conflict between Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militants and Israel when the 8,100-member U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon ends on Dec. 31. All of the options presented to the U.N. Security Council by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would continue U.N. military monitoring of the…
Read MoreSacramento Man Charged with Bringing Explosive Material into Sacramento International Airport
A criminal complaint was filed today charging Kimani Osayande Jones, aka Kimani Osayande Jackson, 49, of Sacramento, with unlawfully possessing explosive material in an airport, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. According to court documents, at about 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2026, Jones attempted to go through a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at…
Read MoreWoman facing arson, hate crime charge following fire at Tassajara Zen Buddhist monastery
Authorities in Monterey County announced an arrest Tuesday in connection with a fire that burned the nation’s oldest Buddhist monastery in late March. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said 36-year-old Fiona GuoGuo Lu of Mountain View was arrested after investigators found online social media posts that connected her to the March 27 fire at the…
Read MoreBaltimore County man arrested for going to crash survivor’s home, making threats while armed
A Baltimore County man is behind bars and facing assault and weapons charges after police said he went to the neighborhood of a 16-year-old recovering from a serious car crash and threatened that teen’s mother and others in the community. Police found more than a dozen weapons inside the suspect’s home, a short distance away.…
Read MoreTwo hostages released, others remained trapped amid bomb threat at Bakersfield bank building
Police were negotiating into the night Tuesday with a man believed to be in possession of a bomb who was holding people hostage inside a building in downtown Bakersfield, authorities said. Officers with the Bakersfield Police Department responded to a confirmed bomb threat at the “Chase Bank Building” at Chester Avenue and 17th Street on…
Read MoreMan with al-Qaeda ties who threatened to bomb subway pleads guilty in Montreal
The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaeda training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit. Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a Passport Canada office from detention and threatening to blow it up. A joint statement of facts tabled…
Read MoreClashes continue in Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting US partial ceasefire plan
Clashes have continued in southern Lebanon despite Israel and Hezbollah accepting a US plan for a partial ceasefire. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had spoken to both sides and “they agreed that all shooting will stop”, after Iran warned Israeli military actions in Lebanon were a threat to the US-Iran ceasefire. Lebanon…
Read MoreRussian attack kills at least 18 in Ukraine, some of them children buried under rubble
Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding more than 100 others, authorities said Tuesday. The damage trapped some people under the rubble of apartment buildings. Emergency crews digging through the wreckage pulled out the body of a 3-year-old child…
Read MoreQueensland teenager, 13, charged over alleged plot to attack school
A teenager who police allege was planning an attack on a school has been charged after allegedly threatening people with a knife in Queensland. The 13-year-old boy was arrested at a business on Saltwater Creek Road in Maryborough, about three hours north of Brisbane, about 9am last Thursday. Police allege the boy was armed with…
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