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A New York City commuter had his face slashed and spat on in the fourth random subway attack in the space of three hours on Wednesday morning. The unnamed victim was seated on a bench at the Times Square station on the southbound platform for the No. 1, 2 and 3 lines when he was approached by an unidentified man at 9.11am. He told police the assailant began talking to him, at which point he removed his headphones and asked: 'Are you talking to me?'

TRIMBLE, Colo. (KDVR) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife said a woman was found dead off U.S. Highway 550 after a suspected bear attack on Friday. According to her boyfriend, the 39-year-old victim was believed to have gone walking with her two dogs earlier Friday, La Plata County Sheriff’s office said. Her boyfriend told police he got home around 8:30 p.m. and the dogs were present but his girlfriend was not there. After searching for her, he found her body around 9:30 p.m. and called 911. When CPW wildlife officers responded, they found signs of consumption on the body and an...

Washington (CNN)Federal agencies are investigating at least two possible incidents on US soil, including one near the White House in November of last year, that appear similar to mysterious, invisible attacks that have led to debilitating symptoms for dozens of US personnel abroad. Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that while the Pentagon and other agencies probing the matter have reached no clear conclusions on what happened, the fact that such an attack might have taken place so close to the White House is particularly alarming. Defense officials briefed lawmakers on the Senate and House Armed Services Committees...

Have you ever heard of Yao Pan Ma? Probably not, at least not by name. Yao Pan Ma is the 61-year old Chinese man who was brutally attacked in East Harlem on April 23. This senseless crime made the news in the New York newspapers but not that much nationally. This incident came about as Yao Pan Ma was pushing a shopping cart along Third Avenue and East 125th Street. Weeks before, he had been laid off at as a dishwasher at a Chinese restaurant in Lower Manhattan due to the pandemic. He was out collecting discarded cans to earn...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An Asian man is hospitalized Saturday from a vicious attack in East Harlem that was caught on camera and is now being investigated by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.According to police, the 61-year-old victim was out collecting cans and bottles around 8 p.m. Friday when another man shoved him from behind, CBS2’s Christina Fan reported.It happened near the corner of Third Avenue and East 125th Street. Officers are reviewing surveillance video of the assault.NYC: help your @NYPDDetectives find the person responsible for this brutal attack 800-577-TIPS https://t.co/UKd4V2K0sE— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) April 24, 2021For at least...

New footage published Saturday morning on Arab networks shows Arab youths violently attacking a Jewish man in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood of Jerusalem. As he attacked the Jew, the Arabs yelled out, "He's a Jew, he's a Jew!" On Friday night, dozens of Arabs threw stones and other objects at police officers, following the Friday prayers on the Temple Mount. The rioters damaged squad cars and fired fireworks at police forces in the area. One driver reported that stones were thrown at him as he drove in an Arab neighborhood in the city. .....

A fleet of Chinese warplanes likely simulated an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier group when a record 25 fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers triggered Taiwan's air defense radars this week, analysts said on Tuesday. The military operation coincided with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group's (CSG) presence north of the Philippines, and came in the hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed Washington's "serious commitment" to Taiwan and its self-defense. Beijing's use of its People's Liberation Army to intimidate democratic Taiwan became a matter of public record last September when the island's defense ministry began logging aircraft intrusions...

Biden DOJ prosecutors are torturing Trump supporters by placing January 6 defendants in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day - even though none of them has been convicted of any crime.

A Capitol Police officer killed last week when a man armed with a knife rammed his car into two officers at a barricade outside the Capitol does not appear to have been stabbed, slashed or shot, a police official told The Associated Press on Monday. Officer William “Billy” Evans, an 18-year veteran of the force, died Friday after the driver rammed into the barricade near the Capitol. The driver, identified as 25-year-old Noah Green, crashed into the officers and the barrier, then exited the car armed with a knife and charged at another officer before the officer fatally shot him,...

An arrest was made early this morning in a violent, racist attack on a 65-year-old Asian woman Brandon Elliot, 38, of West 40th Street in Manhattan was on lifetime parole for murdering his mother in 2002. He was paroled in 2019 after serving 17 years for second-degree murder.

Three men have admitted to planning to gun down members of the public in a terrorist attack in Victoria. Ertunc Eriklioglu, his brother Samed and another man, Hanifi Halis, on Friday pleaded guilty to one charge each of conspiring between November 9 and 19, 2018 to buy a firearm in preparation for an attack. Documents released by Victoria's County Court show an attack against members of the public was planned for the 'advancement of Islam through violence'.

An attack on an oil terminal on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast set one fuel tank ablaze, the country’s petroleum ministry said, after several Houthi drones reportedly targeted two cities not far from the border with Yemen. A projectile struck an oil terminal in Jizan, a port on the Red Sea north of the Saudi-Yemen border, on Friday, igniting a fire but resulting in no casualties, according to a statement from the Saudi Oil Ministry. “The kingdom condemns this cowardly attack directed against vital installations, which does not target the kingdom only, but also targets the security of petroleum exports,...

Biden detailed his first conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping in which he made his intentions very clear that America is unwilling to have a direct confrontation with the increasingly hostile state. “I made it clear to him, again what I’ve told him in person on several occasions, that we’re not looking for confrontation,” he stated. “Although, we know there will be steep, steep competition.”

Everyone thinks Pandas are such cute and cuddly looking animals. Easy for them to say though. I doubt they have ever been attacked by one? Well the guy in this video learned that you better not get too close to them. Especially if you got something they want. As I watched this and some other videos on Pandas, I was struck how China takes such good care of their Pandas? After all, what China gives the Pandas is what Democrats in America are promising for all the people. Half of us will play all day, and the other half...

The raids on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, targeted military camps, as well as Houthi rebel facilities near the city’s airport and in its suburbs, residents and rebel-run Al-Masirah TV said. A separate strike hit a rebel target in the port province of Hodeidah. The Iran-backed Houthis attacked a Saudi Aramco oil refinery in Riyadh on Friday with six bomb-laden drones. The assault caused a fire that was later controlled with no impact on oil supplies or derivatives, state-run media said. No casualties were reported.

Vandals attacked the home of one of former President Donald Trump's impeachment defense lawyers Friday, according to police. Authorities said the vandalism happened around 8 p.m. Friday at the Philadelphia-area home of attorney Michael van der Veen, ABC News reported. The Philadelphia Inquirer said that vandals smashed windows and spray-painted "TRAITOR" and an arrow pointing to the house in red on van der Veen's driveway after he spent hours earlier that day presenting Trump's impeachment trial defense on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Van der Veen's wife discovered the vandalism and reported it to the police. Someone vandalized Mike...

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced a series of a measures to increase security for lawmakers in the wake of the assault on the Capitol building while calling for the creation of a commission to conduct a large-scale investigation into the "terrorist mob attack on Jan. 6." The California Democrat told her colleagues in a letter Tuesday night that they need to "establish a 9/11-type commission" to probe and report the causes and security failures that made it possible for a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump to breach the building, sending...

A Merrimack woman was arrested Tuesday after she allegedly hit someone in the face with a 24-ounce can of Twisted Tea earlier this month, police said. Faith Haggerty, 30, surrendered to Merrimack police on a warrant charging her with simple assault and domestic violence. She was released on personal recognizance, and is scheduled to appear in Merrimack 9th Circuit Court on Feb. 9. According to police, around 9 p.m. on Jan. 18 the victim approached an officer parked at a local business and said Haggerty — who the victim was in a relationship with — hit them in the face...

Police in New York City are looking for dozens of suspects linked to a violent attack on a 26-year-old who was beaten, had his clothes removed, and was cut with a sharp object. A video the New York Police Department (NYPD) showed that a group of males and females attacked the victim around 11:30 a.m. Friday near Canal and Allen streets in downtown Manhattan. It is unclear what the motive for the attack was at this time. Police said Saturday that the alleged attackers stole his cell phone, removed his pants, underwear, and shoes before cutting him with a sharp...

The other day, Andrea Diamond was at home in Canada when a fluffy-tailed visitor decided to drop by her yard. It was a squirrel, and a rather chubby one at that. But there was something else a little different about this squirrel in particular. He’d come armed. Evidently, while making his rounds through backyards in the neighborhood, the squirrel happened upon a small knife someone had left out — and he decided to steal it. As Diamond looked on in amazement, the squirrel proceeded to wield the blade in an adorably intimidating manner. “I noticed he had something blue in...