A New Jersey man is facing federal firearms charges after prosecutors say he plotted to assassinate a prominent Palestinian American activist. The U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey charged Alexander Heifler, 26, on Friday with unlawful possession and making of firearms, according to a criminal complaint. The NYPD and FBI arrested Heifler in connection to a plot against Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani after he allegedly shared his plans with an undercover NYPD officer monitoring a group messaging forum, according to a department spokesperson, who declined to name the platform. Heifler first proposed attacking Kiswani in a Feb. 10 video call with the undercover officer, according to the complaint. The NYPD investigator who had been monitoring the chat then suggested to Heifler that they speak privately. On March 4, an NYPD spokesperson said, Heifler and the undercover officer met in person, drove to Kiswani’s house and came up with an escape plan involving a fake license plate and steps to obscure their DNA evidence. The mayor said Heifler’s plan was to flee to Israel after the attack.

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

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A deputy put a gun in a woman’s mouth in one case. In another, the victim was sent to a hospital.

Iran-linked hackers have publicly claimed the breach of FBI Director Kash Patel's personal inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet.

The National Transportation Safety Board is working to determine which of the airport's many layers of safety precautions failed and allowed the fire truck onto the runway Sunday night.

When Oudone Lothirath was in immigration detention in January, he missed four out of five chemotherapy sessions he had scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. While Lothirath expected to eventually die of the disease, he had hoped to live as long as possible with treatment. But a scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan. “When I was down in Texas, I didn’t get no medical attention, nothing.” His fight for release was easier than other immigrants. His friend and personal care assistant, Christina Vilay, presented a letter from M Health Fairview explaining he would “succumb” without ongoing chemotherapy. Without the need for a lawsuit, ICE agreed to fly Lothirath back to Minnesota after spending 10 days in custody. “Shockingly enough, they let him out, but I think it’s because they just knew if he stayed, he would have died in their custody,” Vilay said.

In​ 1606 a devastating pestilence swept through London; the dying were boarded up in their homes with their families, and a decree went out that the theatres, the bear-baiting yards and the brothels be closed. It was then that Shakespeare wrote one of his very few references to the plague, catching at our precarity: ‘The dead man’s knell/Is there scarce asked for who, and good men’s lives/Expire before the flowers in their caps/Dying or ere they sicken.’ As he wrote, a Greenland shark who is still alive today swam untroubled through the waters of the northern seas. Its parents would have been old enough to have lived alongside Dante; its great-great-grandparents alongside Julius Caesar. For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again.

Democrats are sounding the alarm over a near-unimaginable revelation: the top two contenders for California governor are Republicans. Two of the latest political polls conducted across the Golden State revealed that Fox News commentator Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco are the frontrunners in the crowded race to replace California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is barred from running for a third term, Bloomberg first reported. One survey found Hilton—who has touted his “personal relationship” with Donald Trump—leading the way at 17 percent, with Bianco close behind at 16 percent. Former congresswoman Katie Porter and Rep. Eric Swalwell trailed at 13 percent. A separate poll commissioned by the Democratic Party again found the GOP contenders as clear frontrunners, with Swalwell, Porter, and billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer locked in a stalemate at 10 percent each. Per California state law, only the two candidates who receive the most votes in the state’s primaries on June 2—regardless of political party—will advance to the November ballot. There are eight Democrats currently in the race for California’s highest office, splintering the vote with no clear frontrunner and clearing a potential path for a Republican victory in an election just 70 days away.

Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role

Mpls attorneys representing Somali asylum seekers say every one of their cases was rapidly put on the docket last month. They fear they are being set up to fail.

The Treasury said that the first $100 bills with Trump's signature and that of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be printed in June, followed by other bills in subsequent months.

"All my life I've had the occasional joke made about my name. Sometimes people drew moustaches on my election posters. It was never a big deal. "But now it's out of control. I've seen online articles saying '37% of the people of Arcis are Hitlerites!'. My wife is in tears."

In the late 1990s, Olympics officials were suddenly eager to exit the business of testing women’s DNA. After three decades of requiring all women athletes to sit for chromosome tests in order to compete, the International Olympic Committee, in a daze, seemed to realize it was on the wrong side of history.

NYPD cops ignore transgressions by drivers if they happen to be listeners of right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg, former police chief John Chell said.

The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.

The Justice Department has settled for roughly $1.2 million a lawsuit with Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying about phone conversations with a top Russian diplomat but was later pardoned.

Radical ideas can pop up on the “War Room” podcast, but it’s not unusual to see those same ideas spread quickly in Republican politics. Former White House strategist and podcaster Steve Bannon said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers assisting with airport operations is a “test run” for the 2026 midterms. During a conversation with conservative lawyer Mike Davis on his ‘War Room’ program, Bannon asked, ‘We can use what’s happening with these ICE [officers] helping out at the airports, we can use this as a test run, as a test case to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections, sir?’

The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it’s not looking good for Meta.

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received. In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed. Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago. “I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.” But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint. It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.