In his 2024 New Year message, Xi Jinping stated that the post-Covid Chinese economy had “sustained the momentum of recovery” and that all Chinese people, including in Taiwan, should share in the “glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”. Both these leaden phrases are fantasy. However confident Xi may feel in his autocratic grip […]
A man whose phone had gone missing learned he left it in a Walmart bathroom when it was used to call in a fake bomb threat, Florida deputies said. Dispatchers received a call around 3 p.m. on Jan. 12 from someone claiming there was a bomb inside a Port Charlotte Walmart Neighborhood Market, according to […]
It is hard to recall a time when events in the Middle East escalated as quickly as they have in the last week. And they threaten to deteriorate further still. Whilst Israel, and what’s left of humanity, are still collectively reeling from Hamas’s barbaric assault on the Israeli people, regional terror groups Hezbollah in Lebanon […]
The bomb threat against the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s New York trial for financial fraud that caused a frenzy on the day of closing arguments turned out to be yet another high-profile “swatting” incident, police said. Police responded to the swatting – which involves calling in a fake threat to prompt a heavy police […]
Despite a calm and sunny Thursday, the National Weather Service still has in place a hazardous weather outlook and wind advisory that will be in effect from 11 a.m. on Friday to 8 a.m. on Saturday. The wind advisory is in place for the southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and southeast Indiana regions, which include Hamilton, […]
US and UK forces have bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen in a massive retaliatory strike using warship-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, US officials said. The military targets included logistical hubs, air defence systems and weapons storage locations. The strikes marked the first US military response against […]
The last day of Donald Trump’s fraud trial set off a frenzy in New York Thursday morning, with a bomb squad called to the home of the New York judge overseeing the case and crowds of reporters and spectators packing the courtroom to see the trial’s end. Thursday was the last chance for Trump’s team […]
Police on Long Island responded Thursday morning to a bomb threat at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News. The threat came hours before closing arguments in the trial were scheduled to begin, with […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump arrived for closing arguments Thursday in his New York civil fraud trial after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge who moved this week to prevent the former president from delivering his own closing statements. Authorities responded to the threat at Judge Arthur Engoron’s […]
Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial is back in session on Thursday for closing arguments after authorities responded to a bomb threat at the home of the judge who moved this week to prevent the former US president from delivering his own closing statements. Authorities responded to the threat at Arthur Engoran’s home on […]
A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in a “series of extortionate bomb threats” against Harvard University in April, the Justice Department announced. William Giordani, 55, pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to a count of concealing a federal felony. He was arrested in May and indicted by a federal grand […]
A man suspected of homicide in Missouri was arrested in Nampa on Wednesday morning, and was found to be in possession of an “explosive device,” according to a news release. The Nampa Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service Greater Idaho Fugitive Task Force received an alert at around 10 a.m. that a vehicle believed […]