“Someone rammed a vehicle into two” officers at the checkpoint on Constitution Avenue shortly after 1pm on Friday, Capitol Police said, adding that “a suspect is in custody.” The two officers are injured, and all three have been transported to the hospital, according to police. Media reports suggest that the …
Read More »Russian man suspected of arms trafficking traps family inside house & opens fire on cops after police come to search property
According to Russian media sources, the 61-year-old Vladimir Bardanov trapped himself inside the building alongside his daughter, son-in-law, and their child. As of 7pm Moscow time, the standoff is still ongoing. “Police officers presented the suspect’s wife with a court order to conduct a home inspection and entered the property,” …
Read More »Who else could it be? Russian hackers suspected of taking Australian morning news broadcast off air
Channel 9 CEO Mike Sneesby confirmed that a cyber-attack rendered the broadcaster unable to air its morning news show, ‘Weekend Today’, which runs between 7am and 1pm local time from its Sydney office. The channel’s 5pm news program also failed to air in Melbourne. The company said in a statement …
Read More »Blast rocks Catholic church in Indonesia in suspected suicide attack (VIDEOS)
The explosion went off at the Makassar Cathedral Church on Sunday morning as the people who flocked to the church to attend the service were on their way out, a pastor at the church was quoted by the local media as saying. “We were finishing the service and people were …
Read More »Suspected assailant of elderly Chinese woman in San Francisco ends up handcuffed to stretcher after she BEATS HIM UP with stick
The incident took place on Market Street in San Francisco on Wednesday morning and was first reported by the local CBS affiliate KPIX, whose sports director Dennis O’Donnell happened to be jogging nearby and filmed the aftermath of the altercation. The video shows an elderly woman holding a stick in …
Read More »Suspected human remains discovered by Met Police searching for missing woman Sarah Everard, cop still in custody
Everard, 33, disappeared on March 3 while walking home to Brixton from a friend’s apartment in Clapham. A man in his 40s who is a serving Metropolitan Police officer in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command is being held on suspicion of murder as well as on a separate allegation …
Read More »‘The guy who runs that outfit’: Biden suspected of forgetting his own defense secretary’s name in latest verbal fumble (VIDEO)
The president was announcing the nomination of two female generals assigned to lead US military commands when he suddenly lost his train of thought. “I want to thank the former general. I keep calling him general, but my – the guy who runs that outfit over there,” Biden said, presumably …
Read More »Boeing 737 MAX makes emergency landing after one engine shut down over suspected mechanical issue, American Airlines says
American Airlines said the plane’s captain declared an emergency as it approached New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport from Miami on Friday, successfully reaching the airport and landing with just one engine online. The issue was not linked to the MCAS flight control system behind two fatal crashes in 2018 …
Read More »Several people injured in suspected terrorist attack stabbing in Sweden – police
Police were called to central Vetlanda after receiving reports just before 3pm local time that several people had been attacked with a knife. Officers later confirmed eight people had been injured to varying degrees, some seriously. While initially being investigated as attempted murder, the incident is now being described as a …
Read More »‘I’m an alien’: Musk confirms what many have long suspected in tongue-in-cheek tweet
The conversation took place on Friday night after the founder of credit payments app CRED asked Musk, one of the central figures behind companies Tesla, Paypal, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company and SolarCity, how he does it. “Elon Musk may end up running 4+ 500 billion companies simultaneously at a …
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