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Crime and Justice News

Jun 8
2 min

KS Woman Who Led Islamic Group Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges

A Kansas-born woman who led an all-female Islamic State battalion and trained others to use assault rifles, grenades and suicide...

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Crime and Justice News

May 19
2 min

House Approves Domestic Terrorism Bill in Response to Buffalo Shooting

The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation on Wednesday to elevate the federal government's efforts to combat the threat...

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Crime and Justice News

May 2
1 min

Garland Didn't Call Parents 'Terrorists' For Visiting School Board

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowed last month to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland. "Why did he go after...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 15
2 min

Islamic State Cell Member Who Killed Americans is Convicted

A member of an Islamic State cell known as "the Beatles" because of their British accents that beheaded U.S. citizens in Iraq and Syria...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 13
1 min

Men Who Helped Bomb Minnesota Mosque Get Reduced Sentences

Two Illinois men who helped bomb a Minnesota mosque in 2017 got prison sentences far below the 35-year mandatory minimum that they had...

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Crime and Justice News

Apr 11
2 min

Jury Clears Two, Deadlocks on Two Others in Whitmer Kidnap Case

A federal jury found two men not guilty and deadlocked on two others in a trial accusing them of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov....

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Crime and Justice News

Mar 7
1 min

As MI Governor Kidnap Trial Starts, Will Militias Become More Public?

In Michigan, four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Grechen Whimer go on trial Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Part of a...

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Crime and Justice News

Mar 4
2 min

Court: CIA 'Black Sites' Locations Remain State Secret

The Supreme Court blocked an attempt by lawyers for a Guantánamo Bay detainee to question former CIA contractors about the abusive...

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Crime and Justice News

Mar 2
2 min

Judge Says Suspects in Whitmer Kidnap Plot Were Not Entrapped

After three Michigan men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lost an argument that they were entrapped, a trial...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 24
1 min

Three Men Admit Plotting To Attack Power Grids, Cause Civil Unrest

Three men pled guilty in a plot to attack power grids in the U.S., which they believed could lead to economic and civil unrest and create...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 8
1 min

Bomb Threats to Black Colleges Have Deep-Rooted History

From her office in Birmingham, Al., DeJuana Thompson sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist...

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Crime and Justice News

Feb 1
1 min

Norwegian Mass Killer Loses Attempt To Be Paroled

A Norwegian court ruled Tuesday that far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, must remain in prison. The...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 24
2 min

'Big Dan' The Star Witness In Federal Case Against Anti-Whitmer Plotters

In 2020, a group of armed men surveyed the landscape around the vacation cottage of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, considering how to...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 23
2 min

Synagogue Assailant Akram Had Troubles With Law, Mental Illness

In Blackburn, in England’s industrial north, Malik Faisal Akram was the guy who was banned from the local courthouse after he threatened...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 21
1 min

In Reversal, FBI Director Calls Synagogue Attack Antisemitic

The FBI is treating the attack on a suburban Fort Worth synagogue last Saturday as “an act of terrorism targeting the Jewish community,”...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 19
1 min

Norwegian Neo-Nazi Mass Killer Seeks An Unlikely Parole

Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in 2011 massacres in Norway, appeared at a parole hearing Tuesday,...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 19
1 min

TX Hostage Taker Raised No Red Flags, White House Says

Malik Faisal Akram, the gunman who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death, was...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 18
2 min

Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Stayed in Homeless Shelters

An armed man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue had spent time in homeless shelters in the two...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 16
2 min

Texas Rabbi Threw Chair At Gunman to Escape; Captor Killed

The rabbi of a Texas synagogue says he threw a chair at the gunman and then escaped with two other hostages after 10-hour standoff. Rabbi...

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Crime and Justice News

Jan 9
2 min

Critics Complain Biden Has Failed to End Guantanamo Detention

Advocates for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center were optimistic when President Biden took office, and approved releasing a...

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