(NY Post) A federal prosecutor in Manhattan showed eight gruesome photos Tuesday at a sentencing hearing for West Side Highway terrorist Sayfullo Saipov — one of each of his victims — as jurors weigh whether to execute the mass murderer. In her […]
(Courthouse News) Two family members of Sayfullo Saipov spoke in his defense Wednesday, giving jurors a tearful composite of the man they knew before he became radicalized by the Islamic State group and went on to kill eight people as they spent […]
(AP) Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world. Then came the boom, and smoke started curling in from an elevator shaft. Unsure what was happening, she joined […]
(NY Post) It’s a master class in “gaslighting.” A former director of what critics call an antisemitic group that bashes Israel is hosting CUNY’s first “Diversity Dialogue” for employees at the public university system, which has been beset with allegations of antisemitism. Saly […]
(NY Post) The death penalty trial of West Side Highway terrorist Sayfullo Saipov screeched to a halt Thursday afternoon when his father’s emotional testimony touched off an outburst from his uncle who screamed “dirty ISIS bastards” and slammed his fist on a […]
(NY Daily News) Federal prosecutors rested their death penalty case Wednesday against Sayfullo Saipov, the radical Islamic terrorist who killed eight people on a lower Manhattan bike path. The government wrapped up its case in Manhattan Federal Court after calling several family […]
(AP) A federal judge barred the general public and media from a courtroom Tuesday where defense lawyers claim emotional testimony from victims has spoiled the death penalty phase of the trial of a man who admits that he killed eight people on […]
(Radio Free Europe) An Iranian foundation close to the country’s Islamic government has praised the man who is accused of violently attacking novelist Salman Rushdie last year, leaving the writer severely injured, and said it was offering him a reward of farmland. […]
(AP) Lawyers for a man convicted of killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path say prosecutors are seeking “eye for an eye” justice by using tearful testimony from victims and their families to convince a jury to order death. They asked […]
(WIVB) A father and son were arrested and charged with a kidnapping conspiracy revolving around an alleged forced arranged marriage, the U.S. attorney announced Thursday. Khaled Abughanem, 50, and Waleed Abughanem, 32, both of Lackawanna, were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy […]
(AP) A Belgian man whose wife lost her legs in a deadly terrorist attack on a New York City bike path said he contemplated suicide after he had largely recovered from his physical wounds. He testified Tuesday as a jury considers the […]
(NY Times) A federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury on Monday that Sayfullo Saipov, who drove a truck down a crowded West Side bike path in 2017, mowing down eight people without mercy in a terrorist attack, had “not abandoned his jihad, […]
(AFP) President Joe Biden promised to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes, but the US government is due to argue, beginning Monday, that an Uzbek man should get the death penalty for killing eight people in New York half a decade ago. […]
(ABC) Four days before the penalty phase is scheduled to begin, attorneys for Sayfullo Saipov sought on Thursday to strike the government’s decision to seek the death penalty, in part because of what the defense said was possible ethnic or religious discrimination. […]
(NY Post) The alleged wannabe jihadist accused of attacking three NYPD cops with a foot-long blade on New Year’s Eve pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a litany of state charges. Trevor Bickford, 19, of Maine, avoided eye contact with Acting Justice Gregory Carro as […]
(AP) A former New York stockbroker-turned-Islamic State group militant was convicted Tuesday of becoming a sniper and trainer for the extremist group during its brutal reign in Syria and Iraq. The trial of Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a Kazakh-born U.S. citizen, was the […]
(NY Post) The alleged wannabe jihadist accused of attacking three NYPD cops with a machete-like weapon on New Year’s Eve was ordered held without bail Monday. In his first appearance in Manhattan federal court, suspect Trevor Thomas Bickford, 19, of Maine consented […]
(NY Post) Author Salman Rushdie spoke out for the first time since being brutally stabbed last summer at a literary event in western New York, saying he suffers post-traumatic stress from the “colossal” attack that left him partially blind. “There is such a […]
(AL.com) An Alabama woman and her husband have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). James Bradley, a.k.a. Abdullah, and Arwa Muthana pled guilty in September in New York. The two were […]
(AP) He had been brought from the battlefields of Syria to a New York lockup, a U.S. citizen charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State group. And even in jail, Ruslan Maratovich kept a makeshift version […]
(ABC) A New York City woman has been charged with using cryptocurrency to provide financial support to terrorist groups in Syria, a rare prosecution involving virtual currency to fund terrorism. The 11-count indictment charged Victoria Jacobs, 43, who was known as Bakhrom […]
(NY Post) The City Council is set to rename a Harlem street after Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad — a figure civil rights activists consider a bigot who promoted black separatism. According to a street-naming list, the corner of West 127th […]
(NY Post) The Justice Department on Friday charged three Azerbaijani gangsters with plotting to murder a Brooklyn-based Iranian-American author and activist last year. The case stems from the July arrest of Khalid Mehdiyev, who was collared near Masih Alinejad’s home with an assault rifle after the beefy and […]
(NY Times) For years, Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, promoted an extreme form of Islam that advocated killing nonbelievers. In Britain, his incitements sent him to prison in 2003. He was kicked out of Kenya in 2010. At home in Jamaica, he […]
(NY Post) The ISIS-inspired terrorist who killed eight people by ramming into them with a truck on a West Side Highway bike path in 2017 was convicted of a slew of terrorism and murder charges by a Manhattan federal jury Thursday. The […]
(AP) Deliberations that began Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with killing eight people along a Manhattan bike path quickly hit a snag, as jurors sent the judge a note asking if he would face new criminal charges if they […]
(AP) The man who killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a bid to impress a terrorist group was happy and proud when he met FBI agents later that day, a prosecutor told jurors in a closing […]
(NY Daily News) The ex-wife of an accused radical who abandoned America and his family to become an ISIS sniper told jurors on Monday that his terrorist transformation seemed like something out of a movie. Ruslan Asainov’s former spouse testified at his […]
(NY Daily News) He’s accused of leaving behind his life and family in Brooklyn to fight and train snipers for ISIS — and now a Brooklyn jury will decide his fate. Ruslan Asainov, 46, is set to go on trial in Brooklyn […]
(NY Post) New video shows the chaotic moment accused ISIS-inspired terrorist Sayfullo Saipov was confronted and shot by an NYPD officer shortly after he drove a truck into a bike lane off the West Side Highway and fatally mowed down eight people. […]
(NY Daily News) Ten high school friends from Argentina traveled to New York for several days of fun — but only five went home after accused terrorist Sayfullo Saipov ran them down with a rented truck, witnesses at Saipov’s trial recounted Wednesday. […]
(AP) A man accused of attacking police with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is now facing federal terrorism charges after he became determined to wage jihad against the U.S. government, authorities announced Tuesday. Attorney General Merrick […]
(NY Post) Members of a Belgian family whose relative was one of eight people killed when an ISIS-loving terrorist rammed into them on a bike path in 2017 described in Manhattan federal court Tuesday how their idyllic ride off the West Side […]
(CNN) Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of using a rented truck to fatally strike eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017, became radicalized by watching ISIS videos online and still believes he had a religious obligation to carry […]
(NY Times) On Halloween 2017, Sayfullo Saipov plowed a rented pickup truck down Manhattan’s crowded West Side bicycle path, smashing into pedestrians and cyclists, killing eight people and injuring more than a dozen, the authorities said. Soon after Mr. Saipov was charged, […]
(CNN) Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, was indicted Friday on more than a dozen charges, including several terrorism charges, prosecutors announced. Bickford now faces three counts of attempted […]
(CNN) Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square […]
(NY Post) The Maine teenager and suspected radicalized Islamist extremist charged with attacking NYPD cops near Times Square had been on the FBI’s radar for about three weeks before the New Year’s Eve slashing, law enforcement sources told the Post on Tuesday. […]
(NY Post) The Maine teenager and alleged recently radicalized Islamic extremist suspected of attacking cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve was officially charged — as police found belongings tied to him in a Queens park on Monday, according to sources. […]
(NY Post) The Maine teenager and suspected Islamist extremist who allegedly lunged at NYPD officers with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve said, “Allah Akbar” or “Allahu Akbar” during the attack, police sources told the Post. Trevor Bickford, 19, […]
(NY Post) The 19-year-old alleged Islamic extremist suspected of attacking NYPD cops with a machete on New Year’s Eve penned a disturbing manifesto that urged his family to “please repent to Allah and accept Islam,” police sources told the Post. Trevor Bickford […]
(NY Post) The alleged Islamic extremist who attacked three NYPD cops with a machete near the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square is a 19-year-old man from Maine who recently became radicalized — and was already on an FBI watchlist, […]
(NY Post) A rookie NYPD police officer on his first day on the job was attacked with a machete on New Year’s Eve just blocks [from] Times Square — and police are probing whether the suspect is a recently radicalized Islamic extremist, […]
(NY1) The city will spend $50 million to spruce up 90 middle and high school cafeterias by the end of the year, with grab-and-go options and new kinds of seating. Along with expanding halal meal options, officials say it’s a way to […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens man who tried to sneak into Syria to join ISIS was sentenced to more than 12 years behind bars, after he denounced the terrorist group in front of a federal judge Tuesday. Parveg Ahmed, 27, talked up […]
(NY Times) Four Iranians who plotted to kidnap a prominent Iranian American journalist in Brooklyn paid a private investigator to watch their target, using a woman in California as a go-between, the authorities said. That woman, Niloufar Bahadorifar, pleaded guilty in Manhattan […]
(NY Daily News) A Queens man and co-conspirators from New Jersey, Canada and Virginia were nabbed for transferring over $35,000 to support ISIS, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Wednesday. Abdullah At Taqi, 23, of East […]
(NY Times) In late 2016, Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican preacher who was an outspoken supporter of the Islamic State, began communicating on WhatsApp with a woman in New York who claimed to be an aspiring jihadist with medical training. He offered to […]
(NY Post) Salman Rushdie lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand after he was repeatedly stabbed during a literary event in upstate New York two months ago, his agent said. The 75-year-old author, whose 1988 novel “The Satanic […]
(Fox) The New York Democrat fundraiser linked to “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was placed on administrative leave from his job after reports of his anti-Semitic social media posts. New York engineering firm AI Engineers (AIE) president Abul Islam announced that […]
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