WASHINGTON – Executive assistant director for the FBI’s national security branch Jill Sanborn was grilled by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on whether or not federal agents or confidential informants played a role in the Jan. 6,  2021, Capitol riot. The senior FBI official deflected and demurred throughout the senator’s questioning, which further raised suspicions about Read More >

HOBBS, N.M. – A young mother has been charged with attempted murder after she discarded her newborn baby into a dumpster in New Mexico over the weekend. The baby was found alive hours later and the woman confessed to the crime, according to police. Stunning surveillance video captured a young woman, later identified as Alexis Read More >

LAPD officers had only seconds to save a pilot who had made an emergency landing on train tracks

1/11/22 WEATHER DISASTERS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Natural disaster losses increased substantially. Worldwide, natural disasters caused substantially higher losses in 2021 than in the two previous years, a Munich Re report says. Based on provisional data, storms, floods, wildfires and earthquakes destroyed assets worth $280bn. Losses in the previous year amounted to $210bn, Read More >

1/11/22 CYBERSECURITY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments U.S. cybersecurity officials are still sounding an alarm about the so-called Log4j software vulnerability more than a month after it was first discovered, warning some criminals and nation state adversaries may be waiting to make use of their newfound access to critical systems. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Read More >

The death of Deidre Silas has raised questions of why case workers are sent into potentially volatile environments alone

Actor Alec Baldwin posted a video Saturday in which he bizarrely demanded justice for the woman he allegedly shot and killed on the New Mexico set of the movie “Rust” last fall. Baldwin demanded that they do “everything in their power” to “find out what really happened.” It was Baldwin that pulled the trigger on Read More >

Art Acevedo made several stops as chief of police, but his final stint in Miami ended unceremoniously when he got bounced following several controversial issues with Miami Police personnel as well as City Hall, Law Officer reported. Miami City Manager Art Noriega said the relationship between the city and Acevedo had become “untenable and needed Read More >

NEW YORK — A Sports Illustrated swimsuit model was alarmed after a stranger reportedly stalked her for five hours by slipping an Apple AirTag tracker into her coat pocket. Brooks Nader, 26, says the disturbing incident occurred Wednesday night while she was out in New York City. She didn’t realize the device was on her Read More >

The man, who was taken off life support after six weeks in the ICU, was on fire for about 25 seconds