Updated 3/28/23 at 2:22 p.m: Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old suspect identified in Monday’s shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, legally purchased seven firearms recently and hid the guns from their parents according to police. Furthermore, authorities said that though Hale was not someone on their radar before the shooting, they were seeing a doctor for an […]
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A family departs the reunification center at the Woodmont Baptist church after a school shooting, Monday, March 27, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.Photo: John Bazemore (AP) Authorities said a 28-year-old woman shot three students and three adults to death at a private Christian school in Nashville before she was killed by police. The assailant, whose identity […]
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WASHINGTON — A few days after an American civilian contractor in Iraq died in a rocket attack by Iran-backed militias in December 2019, President Donald J. Trump retaliated by ordering a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general. After a U.S. civilian contractor was killed and six other Americans were injured on Thursday in […]
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WASHINGTON — The United States launched airstrikes in eastern Syria against militant sites linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps after a suspected Iranian drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans, the Pentagon said. The retaliatory strikes came hours after the self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in […]
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. contractor was killed and another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured when a self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said in a statement. U.S. intelligence analysts concluded that the drone was of “Iranian origin,” according to the Pentagon […]
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SOGAKOPE, Ghana — Troops clad in black jumped out of motorboats near a riverside resort and made their way along a wood-slat fence to their objective: a building where terrorists had seized a high-level government official. Shots rang out and the troops returned fire. They soon emerged from the one-story structure with the freed hostage, […]
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BRUSSELS — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey gave the go-ahead on Friday for Finland’s application to join NATO, removing a significant hurdle for the Nordic nation’s bid to join the alliance but leaving its neighbor, Sweden, on the sidelines for now. “We decided to start the ratification process in our Parliament for Finland’s membership,” […]
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As night fell in the tiny Himalayan village of Dhangri, a dozen armed men emerged from their homes one after another, their rifles slung over their shoulders, as if they were bound for war. With stealthy movements, they scanned the moonlit surroundings for signs of danger, their figures silhouetted against the horizon. During the day, […]
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A federal prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in a 2017 truck attack on a Manhattan bike path, was “a proud terrorist” whose actions merit “the most severe punishment the law provides” — the death penalty. “He chose to come to this country and then fight for an enemy,” […]
Read MoreImages from the Ethan Melzer case taken from court documents. A former U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 45 years for his satanic neo-Nazi plot to get his countrymen killed by al Qaeda. Ethan Melzer, 24, was sentenced Friday afternoon s for leaking information to the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a satanic neo-Nazi group. […]
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The project has spurred all the more scrutiny after police in January shot and killed environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, during a police raid of an encampment on site. Police say that Tortuguita shot at them, which prompted them to fire back. An officer was in fact hospitalized after being […]
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After a violent uprising by Palestinians against Israel subsided nearly two decades ago, Abu Abdallah, then a leader of a Palestinian militia, stashed away his assault rifle and later became a civil servant in the West Bank city of Nablus. When Israeli troops raided Nablus late last month, Abu Abdallah, now 42, lent that rifle […]
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration urged Congress on Tuesday to renew a controversial warrantless surveillance law, emphasizing that security officials use it for a broad range of foreign policy and national security goals like detecting espionage by countries like China and Iran or stopping hackers. The administration’s effort is likely to face particularly steep headwinds […]
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BALEDOGLE, Somalia — The promise and perils of America’s counterterrorism campaign were on full display at a remote training base in central Somalia. It was graduation day for 346 recruits who would join an elite Somali commando unit trained by the State Department, advised by U.S. Special Operations forces, and backed by American air power. […]
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When a Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israeli settlers on Sunday afternoon in the northern West Bank, the residents of nearby Palestinian towns knew from long experience to await sporadic acts of revenge. But few anticipated the systematic ferocity with which mobs from nearby Israeli settlements responded on Sunday night. Settlers burned and vandalized at […]
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Thirty years ago today, terrorists left a bomb weighing more than a half-ton in a rented van parked beneath the World Trade Center, a workplace for tens of thousands. Its smoldering fuse took about 12 minutes to close the gap between the everyday and the horrific. The lunchtime blast left a crater several stories deep, […]
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A little girl standing on her toes to place her palm on her deceased father’s image on a television screen. A mother who has left her son’s bedroom exactly as it was on Halloween 2017. A man married to a woman who lost her legs who clutches a pair of her socks in bed every […]
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Twitter and its co-defendants took a more narrow view of JASTA’s language. It is generally indisputable that ISIS grew in size and scope in its early stages with the help of social media. But the tech companies denied any specific advance knowledge of the attack in Istanbul, which they argued meant they couldn’t have “knowingly […]
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That interpretation persuaded judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a three-judge panel sided with Google in deference to precedent in 2021 but also expressed misgivings about the law’s scope. They are hardly alone. As I noted in October, a growing number of Democrats and Republicans have criticized Section 230 in recent years […]
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WASHINGTON — In a case with the potential to alter the very structure of the internet, the Supreme Court on Tuesday explored the limits of a federal law that shields social media platforms from legal responsibility for what users post on their sites. The justices seemed to view the positions taken by the two sides […]
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Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015 when she was among the 130 people killed in a coordinated series of terrorist attacks throughout the city. The next year, her father sued Google and other tech companies. He accused the firms of spreading content that radicalized users into […]
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BUFFALO — A sentencing for the gunman in a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket last year was dramatically interrupted and the courtroom cleared on Wednesday morning after a man lunged at the defendant. The judge, Susan Eagan, emptied the courtroom and reconvened the hearing a short time later, pleading for decorum while saying she […]
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Photo: Bill Pugliano (Getty Images) Local police have identified 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae as the suspect responsible for killing three students and injuring five others Monday in a mass shooting on Michigan State University’s campus. CC Off English During a press conference, Intermin Deputy Police Chiefs Chris Rozman revealed that McRae was found off campus […]
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Scattered across a neighborhood in central Kabul are the ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire. Metal hulls of tank traps sitting unused on the side of the road. Red-and-white metal barriers, once lowered to stop vehicles at checkpoints manned 24/7, permanently pointing toward the […]
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A federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury on Monday that Sayfullo Saipov, who drove a truck down a crowded West Side bike path in 2017, mowing down eight people without mercy in a terrorist attack, had “not abandoned his jihad, his fight.” The prosecutor, Amanda Houle, said Mr. Saipov had shown no remorse and was […]
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Dyshea Smiley, 35, a tour guide for Blazing Saddles since 2015, recalls the day of the attack clearly. “I just remember the silence after,” she said, adding, “Can you imagine a family of yours going on vacation and never coming back?” Ms. Smiley said she had strong feelings about Mr. Saipov’s punishment. “I would give […]
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A man on Friday drove a car into a group of people at a bus stop outside an Israeli settlement on the northern edge of East Jerusalem, killing two people including a 6-year-old child, and wounding at least five others in what the police said was a terrorist attack. The police said a detective shot […]
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BELIZE CITY — On his first day of freedom, the former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan prayed without anyone watching him for the first time in two decades. He ate a lunch of fresh fish from the Caribbean with his new hosts, fumbled with his first smartphone, sipped a nonalcoholic piña colada with his lawyers and […]
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21 states call on Biden to label Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations | The Hill Skip to content A shop’s windows are riddled with bullet holes near City Hall after a gunbattle in Villa Union, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. The small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday even as fear persisted […]
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According to the documents, agents searched Mr. Rosebraugh’s home, workplaces and vehicles on several occasions, carting off paperwork, desktop computers and other electronics. They secretly picked through his bank records, rummaged in his garbage, tracked his outgoing phone calls and tailed his vehicles The F.B.I. watched Mr. Rosebraugh’s home so habitually that an exasperated supervisor […]
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