The Justice Department recently released its “Review of the FBI’s Impersonation of a Journalist in a Criminal Investigation,” and it has concluded the 2007 operation was legally and ethically acceptable undercover work.
Brazilian military officials were forced to shut down the road around Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, on Tuesday after the discovery of an abandoned backpack. Copacabana is an Olympic venue, the site of the beach volleyball stadium.
Two Swiss Air Force fighter jets were summoned to escort an El Al Israeli passenger plane headed to Israel Tuesday, after the company received an anonymous bomb threat.
A woman reported to be a “regular loyal shopper” at a Houston-area Walmart store is now in the Harris County jail after making a bomb threat.
A man wearing a panda suit caused a scare after he allegedly threatened to blow up a TV station — and live TV coverage showed police shooting him.
Sean Taylor Morkys allegedly made a post warning his friend to have his family members leave the rally or risk injury, police said.
A suspicious package discovered near the United States Army National Guard Recruiter prompted a bomb scare and the closure of several streets in West Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.
Schoolchildren were evacuated today as four London schools, four in Cornwall, and a further six in the West Midlands received bomb threats. Metropolitan Police have confirmed a bomb scare affecting two schools in Merton, but gave no details about which schools were
Four schools in the West Midlands have been evacuated after telephone bomb threats received by school staff today between 9 and 9.30am. West Midlands Police have confirmed the schools affected are Bristnall Hall Academy, Oldbury Academy (pictured) and Holly Lodge in Oldbury in
A sophomore from a North Carolina high school was arrested for claiming he made a bomb and then announcing in a classroom that he was going to blow up his school. Once apprehended, the teen also claimed he wanted to
On Tuesday, a bomb threat was called into the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department targeting Loma Linda University Medical Center, the hospital where victims of last Wednesday’s terrorist attack are being treated. No lockdowns have been issued.
Two Air France planes were diverted and grounded due to bomb threats on Tuesday night. USA Today reports that one plane, Air France Flight 65, was inbound to Los Angeles from Paris, and was diverted to Salt Lake City. The other was Flight 55 flying from Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. to Paris, and was diverted to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that Air France flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) was diverted to Salt Lake City Tuesday evening after a bomb threat was received, KABC reports.
Authorities evacuated portions of Harvard University on Monday after they received an emailed bomb threat.
Indiana Police reported that an unknown individual made a 9/11 bomb threat to blow-up a middle school in Martinsville, Indiana, on the anniversary of the terrorists attacks of 2001.
There are still conflicting reports about the reason British Airways Flight 274, carrying 312 passengers from Las Vegas to London on an overnight flight, was diverted to Montreal for an emergency landing on Wednesday morning. However, several sources cite interviews and social-media postings from passengers who indicate the plane was grounded after a bomb threat.
The police department of Tallahassee, Florida responded to a bomb threat at the National Guard Armory on Tuesday morning. There is little public information, though there is a slight chance the threat is a hoax by someone seeking to take advantage of the apprehension over attacks on military personnel after the Chattanooga shootings.
Bomb threats were made against five different aircraft, from five different airlines, on flights either originating or landing in the United States on Tuesday. Officials say all five of the threats were “non-credible,” part of a surge in hoax bomb threats in progress since Memorial Day.
NBC News reports “the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island were both being evacuated Friday afternoon after parks police received a report of a suspicious package.”
A Germanwings Airbus A320 had to be evacuated at the Cologne-Bonn international airport on Sunday evening after someone emailed police a bomb threat less than twenty minutes before the flight’s scheduled departure.
The murder trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was interrupted for two hours on Thursday when the Fall River Justice Center received a phone call warning of a bomb threat.
The incident in which two Secret Service agents drove while intoxicated through a crime scene has taken on added importance in context of the Secret Service took 11 minutes for the agency to call the Metropolitan Police Department bomb squad when an apparent bomb was left near the White House.
It appears that the two off-duty Secret Service agents who drove their black SUV through a crime scene near the White House on March 4 were quite intoxicated, according to surveillance tapes released by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday during its hearing on the matter.
A New Hampshire woman believed to be the first transgender person elected to a state legislature was charged Thursday with calling in a bomb threat to a hospital, police said.
New York police arrested the mother of a Staten Island high schooler for allegedly threatening to blow up her daughter’s school when the teen failed a final exam needed to graduate last week.
Southwest Airlines has reported bomb threats to authorities from eight separate Twitter accounts from 7-10 P.M. EST Monday night, including one from Twitter handle @ISISGangCP.
Five planes throughout the United States were diverted or immediately grounded due to various security threats over the weekend.
Two planes that had just touched down on Sunday afternoon at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were immediately isolated, reportedly due to multiple bomb threats.
Le Soir, a Belgian newspaper that reprinted cartoons from Charlie Hebdo mocking Islam’s prophet Mohammed, evacuated its offices Sunday after it received a bomb threat, according to its web site. Le Soir‘s report states: “The individual who contacted the newspaper ‘Le Soir’…
