More than 50 members of Congress faced swatting attacks in the past month, U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger revealed during Senate testimony. Swatting, involving false emergency calls to provoke armed responses, endangers lawmakers and law enforcement. Manger also reported 700 threats against Congress members during the same period, ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Suheil Hamawi, a Lebanese national, has returned to his homeland after 33 years of inhumane imprisonment in Syria. The Bashar al-Assad regime operated numerous torture centers across the country referred to as “death hubs.” Following the regime’s collapse over the weekend and the opposition’s takeover, anti-re...
Former Rep. Liz Cheney has denounced President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to imprison her and other Jan. 6 committee members as an attack on democracy. In response to Trump’s recent remarks on “Meet the Press,” Cheney accused him of lying about the committee’s findings and undermining the rule of law. She highlighted Trump’s efforts to overt...
A Manhattan court has acquitted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny in the choking death of Jordan Neely aboard a New York subway. After a grueling seven-week trial and extensive deliberations, Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, a charge stemming from an incident caught on a video that went viral. Neely’s death in [&helli...
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione was identified and detained in the city of Altoona, nearly 300 miles from the Manhattan crime scene, after a McDonald’s employee alerted authorities. He was found in possession of a 3D-printed “ghost gun” ...
NEW YORK (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to make immediate and significant changes after taking office on January 20, including pardons for those convicted in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In an interview with NBC News broadcast on Sunday, Trump expressed concerns over the treatment of those convicted in connection...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced a ban on 324 models of assault-style weapons on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the massacre of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique University in Montreal. It is the latest move to fulfill a promise made by the government to bring in the toughest gun legislation in […]
Bangladesh officially summoned India’s High Commissioner Pranay Verma after an attack on its mission by a Hindu mob in India’s northeastern city of Tripura. The incident involved protestors breaching the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission, vandalizing the premises, and setting the national flag on fire. The mission protests were sparked by t...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss an ongoing hush money case against their client, arguing that it disrupts the presidential transition process. In a formal request to Judge Juan Merchan, Trump’s legal team urged the court to dismiss the case promptly. “This failed lawfare ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has collected more evidence and information in the past 18 months than it has in the 20 years since it was founded. ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan emphasized the court’s recent intense efforts during his address at the 23rd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the ICC’s Rome […...