Posts Tagged ‘worldwide terrorism threats & domestic extremist threats & trends’
Michigan appeals court finds terrorism threat law unconstitutional, tosses Wayne Co. case
Michigan’s law about making a terroristic threat or a false threat of terrorism has been found by a three-judge Michigan Court of Appeals panel to be unconstitutional. Judges Michael Kelly, Mark Boonstra and Allie Greenleaf Maldonado wrote that the Michigan law violates the First Amendment because it does not account for a person’s state of…
Read MoreState Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups
The Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as foreign terrorist organizations, said five U.S. officials with knowledge of the imminent action. The move, to be carried out by the State Department, follows an executive order President Trump signed on Jan. 20 calling for a crackdown…
Read MoreDurham Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Support to Terrorists
A Durham man pled guilty in court today to conspiring to provide and attempting to provide material support to ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Alexander Justin White, age 29, was arrested on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, as he was preparing to board an international flight. White attempted to travel overseas intent on joining ISIS.…
Read MoreSingapore detains teenage ‘East Asian supremacist’ for planning attacks on Malays, Muslims
An 18-year-old Singaporean student who identified as an “East Asian supremacist” and was radicalised by violent far-right extremist ideologies has been detained under Singapore’s Internal Security Act. Nick Lee Xing Qiu, who is of Chinese ethnicity, had aspired to conduct attacks against Malays and Muslims in Singapore. He believed that the Chinese, Korean and Japanese…
Read MoreThreats against federal officials surged in 2024, Capitol police report shows
A report produced by federal investigators with the U.S. Capitol Police revealed the number of investigations into threats against Congress and the Capitol complex surged to the second-highest number on record in 2024, amid a toxic and menacing moment in American politics. The agency’s threat division investigated 9,474 “concerning statements or direct threats” against members…
Read MoreAustralian Police Find Explosives They Suspect Are Part Of An Antisemitic Plot
Australian police suspect explosives stashed on Sydney’s outskirts were evidence of a deadly escalation in a campaign of antisemitic arson and graffiti crimes that has been waged in major cities for months, officials said on Wednesday. Police found a list of Jewish targets together with a cache of Powergel, an explosive used in the mining…
Read MoreUK’s Starmer vows to uncover failings, lead change after Southport murders
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Tuesday to “leave no stone unturned” to uncover failings in preventing the killings of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed event, saying an inquiry could lead to a change in terrorism laws. Starmer defended his government’s stance to not divulge many details earlier about the British teenager guilty…
Read MoreUK teenager pleads guilty to murder of Southport girls and ricin, terrorism charges
A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July, a crime that horrified the nation and was followed by days of nationwide rioting. Axel Rudakubana, 18, changed his pleas from not guilty to guilty on what was due to be the…
Read MoreDurham man arrested at RDU charged with supporting ISIS, making plans to join terrorist group
A North Carolina man was charged with supporting ISIS and making plans to travel to Morocco to join the group, according to court documents unsealed in federal court on Tuesday. Alexander Justin White, 29, who went by the name Sulaiman Al-Amriki online allegedly began posting his support for ISIS on his Facebook account between May…
Read MoreTerrorist Designations of The Terrorgram Collective and Three Leaders
The United States remains deeply concerned about the racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (REMVE) threat worldwide and committed to countering transnational components of violent white supremacism. Today, the Department of State is designating The Terrorgram Collective (Terrorgram) and three of its leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as…
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