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Monday, June 17th, 2024

Terrorism

House panel seeks restoration of homeland security grants

A bipartisan group of U.S. House members, in the wake of this week’s U.S. killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and recent domestic acts of anti-Semitic violence, called on the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in homeland security grants aimed at aiding state and local... Read More »

New York State conducts counterterrorism exercises

New York State’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services' Office of Counter Terrorism conducted more than 1,000 counterterrorism exercises throughout the state this year. In these exercises, counterterrorism experts went undercover as customers to assess the ability of businesses... Read More »

New York man arrested for trying to support ISIS

Zachary Clark, a Brooklyn resident, recently appeared in a Manhattan federal court on charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and distributing bomb-making instructions. The charges have a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.... Read More »

New Mexico violent crime, domestic terrorism examined

A group of New Mexico federal and state elected officials recently met in Santa Fe to address potential action to decrease violent crime and domestic terrorism risks in the state. Officials said U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Deb Haaland (D-NM) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM) joined New... Read More »

Bill offers Terrorism Risk Insurance extension

A pair of lawmakers have introduced a measure extending the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program for seven years. Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tina Smith (D-MN), proponents of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019, said the 2020 RNC and DNC Conventions, NASCAR, the NFL and... Read More »

Democrats decry reports of Trump bid at acting DHS head

The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security opened Wednesday’s hearing on global terrorism criticizing President Donald Trump and his bid to name a new acting director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on the day before Kevin McAleenan was scheduled to end his five-month... Read More »

Terrorism drops globally but increases in the United States

Terrorist attacks have declined globally for the fourth consecutive year while in the United States they have reached their highest level since 1982, according to a report from the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). The... Read More »