A 46-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of throwing red paint at the headquarters of the Hong Kong government. Security personnel discovered the paint splashed near a flower bed at an entrance of the headquarters close to Harcourt Road on Wednesday morning. Broken glass was also found at the scene. Security footage showed that…
Brace yourself: Violent migrant crime is metastasizing. The brutal Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua has now expanded to at least 16 states and Washington, DC, per an internal Homeland Security memo. The district, Virginia, Montana and Wyoming are the latest additions to the ever-growing list of states suffering the gang’s presence. And the…
BEIJING (AP) — Dozens of people have been killed in China in the past three months in a series of mass attacks. The latest on Tuesday saw primary school students struck by a car as they arrived for classes. The attacks take one of two forms — either drivers mowing down people on foot or…
Nov. 14—A Decatur man accused of holding two adults and two children captive on Autumnwood Drive — after a victim said she rejected his advances — was a credible threat to his ex-wife and children, according to a Madison County judge, and previously convicted of attacking his stepfather. “He has showed me what he is…
A Hong Kong court has stepped up security checks after a man tried to attack a magistrate who convicted him over an indecent assault case years earlier, with staff searching visitors’ belongings and prohibiting sharp tools. A screening station was set up at the entrance of each floor outside the courtrooms of Kowloon City Court…
As Americans face one of their most consequential elections for years, a subtext is running through the conversations of many of those anxiously waiting for election day: could this country face upheaval or even violence in coming weeks? The United States was once famous for its peaceful transfer of power. For such a large country,…
I was saddened when a small group of Pomona College students in the United States recently barricaded themselves inside Carnegie Hall, causing significant damage and choosing violence over discussion. They were a minority in a group that included masked protesters, some later identified as students from other Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent institutions…
CAIRO — The war in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people, or about 30% of the population, since it broke out over a year ago, creating the world’s largest displacement crisis this year, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. Of those, 11 million are internally displaced and 3.1 million have fled to…
BEIJING, China (AP) — A knife attack near a school in China’s capital on Monday injured five people, including three children, police said. The attack occurred at midafternoon in Beijing’s northwestern Haidian district. None of the injuries was life threatening, police said in a statement. A 50-year-old suspect surnamed Tang was detained at the scene…
Russia, China and Iran are intent on fanning narratives to divide Americans ahead of the November 5 US elections and may consider fomenting violence after voters go to the polls, US intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The officials, briefing reporters on US election security, said foreign actors could consider physical threats and violence, and are…