Terrorism

Blavity reports: In a Blavity Politics exclusive interview on Wednesday, Waters sounded off on finding out she was one of the intended victims. In her response, Waters spoke to how President Trump’s hateful rhetoric has only helped to incite various hateful attacks that have unfolded since his time in office. “I don’t know whether the bombs are real or not, …

CBS News reports: A source familiar with the ongoing investigation confirms to CBS News that a suspicious package has been located that was addressed to former Vice President Biden. It’s consistent with the packages sent to other leading Democrats. The package was found in New Castle, Delaware, the source says. The timing was unclear, but it seems to have been …

The Associated Press reports: Authorities said on Wednesday the pipe bombs mailed to CNN and prominent Democrats were packed with shards of glass and were intercepted. None of the seven bombs detonated, and nobody was hurt as authorities in New York, Washington, D.C., Florida and California seized the suspicious packages. Thursday morning, President Donald Trump blamed the “anger we see …

The New York Post reports: A suspicious package was sent to the Tribeca restaurant owned by actor Robert De Niro, police sources told The Post on Thursday. The parcel was “the same” as those containing pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats, including former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, along with CNN’s New York bureau, the sources said. The Tribeca Grill, along …

Via press release from the FBI: Between October 22 and 24, 2018, suspicious packages were received at multiple locations in the New York and Washington, D.C., areas and Florida. The packages are being sent for analysis at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia. “This investigation is of the highest priority for the FBI. We have committed the full strength of …

CNN reports: The package sent to the Time Warner Center was delivered by courier, law enforcement sources tell CNN. It was addressed to John Brennan, the former CIA director, and “Time Warner (CNN).” CNN previously reported that the package addressed to George Soros was put in the mailbox, not mailed, according to a separate law enforcement source. In a mid-day …

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump is expected to address a series of suspicious packages addressed to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others Wednesday, during at a bill signing event for legislation intended to combat the opioid crisis. The Secret Service said that “potential explosive devices” addressed to former President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton had been intercepted. Hours …

The Miami Herald reports: A suspicious package has been found at U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ office in Sunrise, police said. “Yes, I can confirm there’s a suspicious package and we’re handling it right now.” Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said. CNN reported that whoever sent the package to Soros’ home used Wasserman Schultz’s office as a return address and did …

New York state and federal law enforcement authorities are about to give a press conference on the bombing attempts at the Time Warner Center and elsewhere. NBC News reports that all of the packages are “manila in color,” with “similar or identical components,” and that the return address on each belongs to DNC official Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, whose office was also …

CBS Miami reports: The building that houses Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office in Sunrise was evacuated after a suspicious package arrived in the mail, according to Sunrise police. A Broward Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was called in to determine what exactly was delivered to the congresswoman’s office at 777 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway. The evacuation came as authorities intercepted suspicious devices …

New York authorities are reporting that the suspicious package mailed to CNN’s offices at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center was addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, who has been a sharp critic of the Trump administration since becoming a CNN commentator. Story developing…. UPDATE: CNN reports. Brennan, an official in the Obama administration, is a frequent CNN guest and Trump …

NPR reports: An explosive device was found at the Westchester County, New York, home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Monday afternoon. In a statement to NPR, the Bedford Police Department said an employee of the house found a suspicious package in the mailbox. They opened it, revealing what “appeared to be an explosive device.” The employee placed the package …

The Huffington Post has published a fascinating/horrifying deep dive into the violent, misogynistic world of so-called incels, men who say they are “involuntarily celibate” because women won’t have sex with them due to their looks. Here’s the opening: It’s late on a Friday, and hundreds of men are browsing the forum Lookism.net. A new member logs on and posts two …

The Ottawa Citizen reports: Ontario’s police watchdog has identified the man responsible for a shooting rampage in Toronto’s Greektown as Faisal Hussain. The Special Investigations Unit says Hussain is a 29-year-old from Toronto. Police have said he was found dead after exchanging fire with police during the shooting on Sunday night. Two people were killed and 13 others injured in …

The Globe & Mail reports: A young woman is dead and another 13 people are injured, including a child in critical condition, after a lone gunman walked along Toronto’s busy Danforth Avenue on Sunday night, randomly shooting pedestrians before opening fire on crowded restaurants. The 29-year-old shooter died in a nearby alley after an exchange of gunfire with police, though …

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: MGM Resorts International has filed federal lawsuits against more than 1,000 Las Vegas mass shooting victims in an effort to avoid liability. The company, which owns Mandalay Bay and the Route 91 Harvest festival venue, argues that it cannot be held liable for Oct. 1 deaths, injuries or other damages, adding that any claims against …

The Associated Press reports: Mental health counselors told the mother of Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz she shouldn’t let him buy guns, but she ignored their concerns and he began assembling an arsenal before her death last year, officials said Tuesday. Lynda Cruz was “an enabler” who interfered with efforts to get her son treatment, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob …

The Capital Gazette reports: President Donald Trump has declined a request from Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley to lower American flags in honor of the fatal shooting of five employees of The Capital newspaper last week. “Obviously, I’m disappointed, you know? … Is there a cutoff for tragedy?” Buckley said Monday afternoon. “This was an attack on the press. It was …

USA Today reports: Demetrius Pitts faces a charge of attempted material support of a foreign terrorist organization, according to federal authorities in Cleveland. Officials said Pitts was walking around Cleveland last week conducting reconnaissance on where to park a van packed with explosives during the July 4 parade. The investigation into Pitts was started in 2017 by the Cincinnati office …

CBS News reports: The suspect accused of killing five people in a shooting at a Maryland newspaper had damaged the tips of his fingers in an apparent attempt to thwart efforts by police to identify him by his fingerprints, a law enforcement officials tells CBS News. Authorities said the suspect is a white male in his 20s who they have …