Tag: Attack

Hawaii Remembrance Draws Handful of Pearl Harbor Survivors

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor joined about 2,500 members of the public at the scene of the Japanese bombing on Wednesday to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago. The audience sat quietly during a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time the attack began…


VIDEO: Heroic German Shepherd Protects Young Boy From Attack by a Neighbor’s Dog

A 1-year-old German shepherd has been hailed a hero after he rushed to protect his human brother from a potential attack by a neighbor’s dog. The 6-year-old boy was playing in the front yard of his family’s South Florida home on Nov. 8, with his German shepherd, Tank, when a neighbor’s dog came charging toward…


Judge Accepts Insanity Plea Deal for Man in Face-Biting Case

STUART, Fla.—A judge accepted a plea deal Monday for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face that will send him to a mental hospital for treatment. Austin Harrouff, 25, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree…


2 Arrested After Twitter Threats to ‘Shoot Up a Synagogue’: NYC Officials

NEW YORK—Social media posts about attacking a synagogue represented a real danger to the city’s Jewish community, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday. “This was not an idle threat,” Adams said at a news conference where he was joined by officials from the FBI, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and other agencies involved in the arrests early…


State Media: Gunmen Attack Bazaar in Iran, Killing 5

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Gunmen opened fire in a bazaar in the southwestern Iranian city of Izeh on Wednesday, killing at least five people, including a young girl, and wounding civilians and security forces, state TV reported. In a separate attack, gunmen shot dead two members of Iran’s paramilitary Basij in the central city of Isfahan,…


Police: Knife Used in Deadly Attack Targeting Idaho Students

MOSCOW, Idaho—The killer—or killers—who stabbed four University of Idaho students to death remained at large Tuesday, prompting many students to leave the campus in the idyllic small town despite police assurances that there was no imminent risk to the community. So many students had left the scenic tree-lined campus in Moscow, Idaho, by Tuesday that…


9 Dead, Including 4 Women, in Attack on Bar in Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Nine people are dead, including four women, after gunmen burst into a bar and opened fire in the violence-wracked Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said Thursday. It was at least the third such bar massacre in as many months in Guanajuato, where a local gang is fighting a turf war with Jalisco cartel. The…


Police Officer Killed in Suspected Brussels Terror Attack

BRUSSELS—A lone assailant killed one police officer and wounded another Thursday in a stabbing attack that two Belgian judicial officials said was suspected to be terrorism-linked. The suspect was shot and taken to a hospital. Eric Van der Sypt, from the federal prosecutor’s office, told The Associated Press the suspect was wounded by another police…


At Least 9 Dead After Russian Jets Hit Syria’s Rebel-Held Idlib, Rescuers Say

AMMAN—Russian jets bombed camps near Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-held bastion, witnesses and rescuers said. War planes flying at high altitude, aided by Syrian army artillery, also dropped bombs on forests near the makeshift camps west of Idlib, witnesses…


Media Narrative on Pelosi Attack is ‘Morally Outrageous’: Experts

News Analysis In an election year that has Democrats often using the “extremist” label on the GOP to distract from the country’s economic problems, experts say that the rush by mainstream media to blame “right-wing extremism” for the attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calf.), has actually harmed the Democrats, This summer…