On New Year's Day, a two-vehicle collision in Rochester, New York resulted in two fatalities and five injuries. The FBI is now investigating the incident as a possible terror incident after canisters of gasoline were found at the scene. Two passengers in the Outlander were killed and the driver and three other passengers were injured, while the driver of the Ford Expedition was also injured. Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact them.
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The NYPD and FBI are taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of New York City's New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. The NYE Wishing Wall has been set up, giving visitors the chance to write down their hopes and dreams for the new year, which will be released as confetti when the ball drops at midnight. Fireworks will light up the sky in London, Sydney, and Auckland as the world looks ahead to 2024 with optimism and purpose.
The University of Idaho began demolishing a house on Thursday morning, despite pleas from two of the victims' families to wait until evidence needed for the court case was collected from the site. The house, located in Moscow, Idaho, was the site of a tragic incident last year in which four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed. The FBI had gathered additional information from the house in October, but the demolition of the house began early Thursday morning, with debris from the home’s walls being loaded into a dump truck. The families of the victims have expressed their disappointment at the school's decision to proceed with the demolition before all evidence was collected.
Former Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry was convicted in 2019 of making false statements to the FBI about a campaign contribution, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction on Tuesday, ruling that the trial should not have taken place in Los Angeles as the crime was not committed in that state. The court noted that Fortenberry should have been tried in either Nebraska or Washington, D.C., and reversed his conviction, allowing him to be retried in a proper venue.
The Justice Department has announced the indictment of two Russian intelligence officers for a hacking campaign against U.S. and British government agencies, contractors, and NATO members. The campaign, which began in 2016 and lasted until 2022, was aimed at gathering intelligence and influencing British politics. If convicted, the two officers could face up to 20 years in prison and the Justice Department is seeking to extradite them and seize any assets they may have in the U.S.
A US citizen has been arrested in Arizona for allegedly inciting a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia that left six people dead. The attack saw three people, including two officers, killed when police were ambushed at a rural property last year. The man has been charged with inciting the attack and is currently in custody, with further details expected to be released in the coming days.
Manuel Rocha, a former American diplomat and U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, was arrested in Miami on Friday as part of an FBI counterintelligence investigation. He is accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba's government, and further details are expected to be revealed at his court appearance on Monday. It is unclear what charges he is facing or what the potential consequences could be.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was seriously injured in an attack by another inmate at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona on Friday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was "assaulted" at the facility and hospitalized, but did not confirm the identity of the victim. The FBI and the Bureau of Prisons are currently investigating the incident, which has not been linked to the case against Chauvin.