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Police investigating 5 consecutive shooting incidents on Washington highway
Police are investigating five separate shootings that occurred Monday night on Interstate 5 in Washington, authorities said. Police have not confirmed if all of the shootings are connected but have confirmed that several people have been injured across all five incidents, according to a statement from the Washington State Patrol. A suspect was arrested, police…
Read MoreTrial Expected To Focus On Shooter’s Competency In 2021 Colorado Supermarket Massacre
A man sitting in his van after fixing a coffee machine inside a supermarket in the college town of Boulder was the first person killed. In just over a minute, nine more people died in a barrage of gunfire inside and outside the store in 2021 as the shooter targeted and pursued people who were…
Read MoreGermany: Knife attack on bus injures 6 – Deutsche Welle
A woman stabbed and wounded six people in a bus in western Germany on Friday evening, police said. They said five were injured in the incident but later revised the figure. The 32-year-old suspect, a German national, was arrested after the attack in the town of Siegen. At least 40 people were on the bus…
Read MoreOhio man who was part of ‘boogaloo’ movement sentenced to prison over threats to police
An Ohio man who was a member of the anti-government extremist “boogaloo” movement was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for threatening to kill law enforcement officers, federal prosecutors said. One of the threats Aron McKillips made online included a photo of him at his home pointing a rifle at a police…
Read MoreHouthi video shows the Yemeni rebels planted bombs on tanker now threatening Red Sea oil spill
Yemen’s Houthi rebels released footage on Thursday showing their fighters boarded and placed explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker, setting off blasts that put the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill. The vessel was abandoned earlier, after the Houthis repeatedly attacked it. In the video, the Iran-backed Houthis chant their motto as the…
Read MoreFormer University of Chicago student charged with concealing bomb-making in dorm room
A college student has been charged with lying to authorities after triggering an explosion in his dorm room at the University of Chicago. The explosion happened in January 2023 on the sixth floor of a university building, authorities said. Authorities believe the former UChicago student Aram Brunson, a 21-year-old man from Massachusetts, is currently living…
Read MoreFBI discovered a DHS document describing improvised explosive devices during investigation of Trump’s would-be assassin
Among the documents Donald Trump’s would-be-assassin studied while formulating his plans for an attack on the former president was a public document from the Department of Homeland Security, describing different kinds of improvised explosive devices and the number of explosives needed to inflict casualties over certain distances, a senior law enforcement official told CNN. The…
Read MoreRacist, anti-immigrant signs were posted at Denver bus stops. How Colorado officials are responding.
Regional Transportation District (RTD) officials are working with law enforcement to determine who posted several racist, anti-immigrant signs at several bus stops along one of Denver’s busiest transit corridors overnight. The first of at least three signs which reference Jim Crow-era laws and a perceived preferential treatment of immigrants coming from the southern border by…
Read MoreBritain places travel ban on two men under counter-terrorism sanctions
The British government said on Thursday it had imposed a travel ban on Mustafa Ayash, who it sanctioned earlier this year for promoting terrorism, and suspected Hezbollah financier Nazem Ahmad. The pair, who were already subject to asset freezes under domestic counter-terrorism powers, now cannot enter Britain, it said. “The travel bans are a part…
Read MoreSuspect in attack on French synagogue charged with terrorism
Four days after the arson attack on the Beth Yaacov synagogue in southern France, the main suspect, El Hussein K., 33, was charged on Wednesday, August 28, for “terrorist conspiracy,” “attempted assassinations committed due to race or religion in connection to a terrorist organization,” “possession and transport of incendiary products with the intent to harm…
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