Terrorism

A 17-year-old from West Philadelphia has been charged with buying and testing bomb-making materials in support of a foreign terrorist group, state and federal authorities announced Monday. The teen, whom prosecutors declined to name because he is a juvenile, was arrested Friday at his home in the Wynnefield section of the city, said Jacqueline Maguire, [...]

A cyberattack has caused major disruptions at hospitals in multiple U.S. states, forcing emergency rooms to close and ambulances to be rerouted. The attack targeted Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings, which has healthcare facilities in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Read more...

(The Center Square) – Nine months into fiscal 2023, more known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the northern and southwest borders than in all of fiscal 2022. So far this fiscal year, 525 known or suspected terrorists have been apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. compared to 478 last fiscal year. Read more...

A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people. The event was a convention for the Islamist political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan Fazl (JUI-F), an Islamist party local outlets [...]

A foreign policy expert is sounding the alarm over China-state nationals seeping through the U.S. border at alarming rates.  Read more...

U.S. Army Pvt. Cole Bridges attempted to help the Islamic State group murder U.S. soldiers abroad — and offered advice on attacking New York City. “Cole Bridges attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his fellow soldiers in service of ISIS and its violent ideology,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement Wednesday. “Bridges’ traitorous conduct [...]

An Afghan national on the FBI's terror watch list was arrested Wednesday after stealing across the southern border into San Diego with a platoon of other illegal aliens. Border Patrol agents took the suspect, along with other migrants who had crossed the border near Otay Mesa, to a processing center, reported the New York Post. [...]

A Massachusetts man has been charged after allegedly trying to open an in-flight plane's emergency door and trying to stab a flight attendant Sunday, WCVB reported. "I will kill every man on this plane! So where are they?! ... You don't have Homeland Security. You're not going to try and stop me? So you're all [...]

An activist group that has categorized conservative and Christian organizations as "hate groups" was slammed for blaming the police when one of its own staffers was charged with domestic terrorism in Atlanta’s "Cop City" clash. The Southern Poverty Law Center exposed its political bias in its public response to the arrest of its attorney Thomas [...]

A man driving a U-Haul went on a "violent rampage" in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Monday morning,  striking eight people, including an officer, before being taken into custody, police said.  New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said at least eight people were injured and remained at area hospitals.  Read more...