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Gunman who killed 23 in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso pleads guilty to capital murder
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — pleaded guilty Monday to capital murder in a state district court. Patrick Crusius was automatically be sentenced to life in prison without parole in the massacre near the…
Read MoreGerman police raid home of teen accused of producing a ricin-based toxin
German law enforcement raided the home of a 16-year-old boy whom they accuse of producing and storing a ricin-based biological warfare agent. Police entered the home owned by the boy’s parents early Thursday morning due to suspected violations of Germany’s Weapons of War Act and secured “all toxic substances and other evidence,” the Saxony State…
Read MoreMan accused of deadly terrorist attacks in India arrested in Sacramento
Federal officials arrested a man in Sacramento who is accused of terror crimes in India, the FBI Sacramento office announced on Friday. Harpreet Singh, whose alias is Happy Passia, is accused of being a key operative of ISI-backed Babbar Khalsa International and a close associate of Pakistan-based terrorist Rinda, Punjab Police said. “Today marks a…
Read MoreUkraine reports many Russian drone attacks after truce ends
Ukraine’s military has reported Russian drone attacks on several regions overnight, just hours after the end of a 30-hour “Easter truce” declared by Moscow. Air raid alerts were issued by Ukraine’s air force for the Kyiv region, as well as Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia. In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych…
Read MoreMan charged after breaking into, setting fire to school buses in Greenville, police say
A man is accused of breaking into and setting fires to school buses in Greenville, South Carolina. Greenville police said on April 19 officers and firefighters were called to Legacy Charter School on East Bramlett Road. After putting the fires out, officers said they found that multiple buses had been broken into and damaged. Four…
Read MoreKnife-wielding suspect in domestic-related stabbing shot dead by police near National Harbor
A suspect in a domestic-related stabbing was fatally shot by police at National Harbor in Maryland on Sunday. At 8:20 a.m. Prince George’s County police officers in Oxon Hill, Maryland, responded to a stabbing call in the 8300 block of Indian Head Highway. It was there that officers discovered a man and a woman with…
Read MoreHagerstown teenager pleads guilty to making swatting calls across US
A Hagerstown teenager pleaded guilty to making swatting calls to multiple police departments across the country, threatening violence against schools, a casino, and an airport. Swatting is a form of criminal harassment, during which people falsely report an emergency to public safety to get emergency personnel to respond somewhere, despite no emergency existing. The U.S.…
Read MoreSuspected arsonist found dead after fatal apartment fire in southern Seoul
A man suspected of starting a fatal fire in Bongcheon-dong, Gwanak District, southern Seoul, was found dead on Monday, according to fire authorities. The fire broke out around 8:17 a.m. on Monday at a 21-story apartment complex, killing the suspected arsonist and injuring several others, according to local authorities. Emergency services responded to calls reporting…
Read MoreU.S. to designate Haiti gangs as foreign terrorists, opening way to use Salvador prison
Haitian gangs and individuals financing and arming them could soon find themselves labeled as “terrorists” and imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, the same facility the Trump administration has been sending alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, the Miami Herald has learned. The U.S. State Department, which earlier this year designated the Venezuelan…
Read MoreGunmen attack Chinese-owned hydroelectric plant in Chile, burn equipment and injure guards
Gunmen attacked a Chinese-owned hydroelectric plant under construction in Chile yesterday, setting fire to dozens of trucks and heavy earth-moving equipment, police said. The Rucalhue power plant is being built by Rucalhue Energia Spa, a unit of China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE), and is projected to cost US$350 million (RM1.5 billion). It is…
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