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Florida native Cesar Sayoc arrested in connection with 12 mail bombs; Donald Trump says 'bomb stuff' is distracting
• 6 years agoFederal authorities arrested a man in Florida on Friday in connection with the mail-bomb scare that widened to 12 suspicious packages sent to prominent Donald Trump critics, the US Justice Department said.
Florida native Cesar Sayoc charged with five federal crimes for sending pipe bombs to US politicians, faces 58 years in jail
• 6 years agoCesar Sayoc, 56, was arrested Friday on charges of sending package bombs, which officials described as IEDs, to at least 10 present and former high-level government officials including former president Barack Obama, former vice president Joe Biden and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Mail bombs versus migrant caravan: Donald Trump goes all in on 2 powerful optics dominating US politics before 6 November midterm elections
Nikhila Natrajan • 6 years agoOut with the bombs and back to the migrant caravan. Donald Trump is mighty relived that Page One headlines will be cleared of the mail bomb story for the next 10 days before midterm elections 2018 which will decide political control over US Congress.
Donald Trump 'extremely angry, upset, unhappy' about pipe bombs being sent to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN bureau in NYC
• 6 years agoUS President Donald Trump has termed as "abhorrent" the sending of "suspicious packages" to his predecessor Barack Obama, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and CNN, asserting that threats of political violence have no place in America.
Bombs mailed to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, CNN: What's the political benefit when 6 crude explosives don't go off?
Nikhila Natrajan • 6 years agoWho benefits when six bombs mailed to Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, CNN and other Trump rivals don't explode and the packaging is so rudimentary that it seems like the sender wants to be caught?
'Act of terror': 5 bombs mailed to Clintons, Obamas, CNN and others Trump rails against; New York ramps up police presence across city
Fp Staff • 6 years agoBefore noon on Wednesday in the US East Coast, at least 5 packages containing 'functional explosive devices' were stopped before they reached Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, the CNN offices in Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York mayor Andrew Cuomo and others. "This is an act of terror", Cuomo told media outlets and linked the toxic political environment to the way things are unfolding in the run-up to the midterm elections.
'Functional' bombs mailed to Hillary, Bill Clinton's home and Barack Obama's office; CNN New York offices also evacuated
Fp Staff • 6 years agoA US official says a "functional explosive device" was found at Hillary and Bill Clinton's suburban New York home. Television network CNN is reporting that Secret Service has found an explosive device in the Washington DC office of former President Barack Obama too.
Six Kerala youths detained and quizzed by ATS for 8 hours as fellow train passengers mistook 'Bombay' for 'bomb'
Fp Staff • 8 years agoIt was their accent that landed six men from Kerala in the soup yesterday as some passengers in a CST-bound local train mistook their pronunciation of "Bombay" as "bombs" and approached the RPF, a senior officer said.
Two teenagers arrested for planting bombs in Tinsukia, Assam on Independence Day
• 9 years agoTwo teenagers have been picked up by the police for allegedly planting bombs in four areas of Assam's Tinsukia district which was rocked by serial explosions on Independence Day. Two boys, aged 15 and 16 years, were picked up from No. 3 Kakojan on Tuesday on the basis of information gathered from Kakojan area, Tinsukia district Superintendent of Police Mugdha Jyoti Mahanta.
Bengal: CID team visits blast site in Malda to probe explosions
• 9 years agoA CID team on Tuesday visited the site where two personnel of the investigation agency were killed when the bombs they were trying to defuse exploded.