Trooper, Gunman Dead in Shooting at Greyhound Station in Richmond, Virginia

A state trooper and a gunman are dead after an “active shooter” situation at a Greyhound bus station in Virginia, Thursday afternoon, state police said. “It’s with an incredibly heavy heart tonight that I announce to you the loss of Police Trooper Chad Dermyer,” Virginia State Police Superintendent Steven Flaherty said at a press conference […]

Poll: Most Americans support torture against terror suspects

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe torture can be justified to extract information from suspected terrorists, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, a level of support similar to that seen in countries like Nigeria where militant attacks are common. The poll reflects a U.S. public on edge after the massacre of 14 people in San Bernardino in […]

Meet the 9-Year-Old Who Ran a Race Course Designed by Navy SEALs

Milla Bizzotto is a rising star in the world of obstacle course racing as the youngest competitor ever to complete the BattleFrog Xtreme 24-hour race, a course designed by Navy SEALs. She’s in the gym Monday through Friday for at least three hours. She has several coaches and a sports medicine doctor to keep her […]

Mississippi woman who tried to join ISIS pleads guilty

In her farewell letter as she was leaving to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jaelyn Young told her family she was guilty. “I found the contacts, made arrangements, planned the departure,” prosecutors say she wrote last August. “I am guilty of what you soon will find out.” Tuesday, she admitted the same to […]

Did the FBI Just Unleash a Hacker Army on Apple?

In the end, the FBI didn’t need Apple’s help to extract information from a dead terrorist’s iPhone. Hackers, the FBI says, did the government’s work for it. On Monday, the Justice Department asked a judge in California to put aside a search warrant compelling Apple to assist law enforcement in obtaining information from the phone used by dead San […]

Former Army general named Wounded Warrior interim COO

A retired Army major general has been named interim chief operating officer for the Wounded Warrior Project after the veterans organization fired its two top officers following a scandal over the nonprofit’s alleged lavish spending. Gen. Charlie Fletcher, who served on the WWP’s advisory council, will step in as interim COO on April 11, the […]

Alleged Capitol gunman charged in shooting incident

A man who authorities said took out a gun and pointed it at officers as he tried to enter the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Monday was shot by police, prompting a scramble by law enforcement amid heightened security after terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris. Authorities identified the wounded suspect as Larry Russell Dawson, […]

A Dam, Small and Unsung, Is Caught Up in an Iranian Hacking Case

The United States has many colossal dams, hydroelectric power generators like Hoover and Grand Coulee so monumental in scale and purpose that they have been celebrated in song by Woody Guthrie and others. The Bowman Avenue Dam in this low-key suburban village in Westchester County is not one of those. Its opening is about the width of […]

Inside the FBI’s Secret Muslim Network

Dearborn, Michigan, may be the closest thing America has to a Mollenbeek, the seething, Islamicized neighborhood of Brussels believed to have harbored the terrorists involved in both the metro and airport attacks this week and last fall’s slaughter in Paris. An ordinary Detroit suburb sometimes called the “Arab Capital of North America,” Dearborn has the […]

Chinese businessman pleads guilty to conspiring to hack U.S. military data

A Chinese businessman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to hack US defense contractors and steal sensitive military data, said the US Department of Justice in a statement. Criminal charges were originally filed against 50-year-old Su Bin in 2014, and the Chinese national was arrested in Canada that July. After pleading guilty, he now faces up to five […]

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem Guilty Of Conspiring To Support ISIS In Texas Attack

An Arizona man was found guilty on Thursday of plotting with others to attack a “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest in Texas last year and providing material support to the Islamic State group, prosecutors said. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 44, was convicted on all five charges against him by a federal jury in U.S. District Court […]