Iranian General Charged in Alleged Plot to Kill New Yorkbased Journalist

US charges man over alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump

The US government alleges Iran's Revolutionary Guard tasked an Afghan national to devise a plan to kill Trump.

2 New York Men Charged in Monthslong Plot to Kill Iranian Activist

The men were receiving orders from a third man, who was working as an Iranian operative and was also involved in a plot to assassinate Donald J. Trump, federal prosecutors said.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 10

US justice department files charges over alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump

Trump campaign said US officials warned him in September about suspected Iranian assassination plot. The US justice department is bringing criminal charges over an Iranian plot to kill the ...

World - The Guardian - November 8

Justice Department unseals alleged Iranian plot to kill Trump

The Justice Department on Friday revealed an alleged Iranian plot to kill President-elect Trump during his campaign this fall. A newly unsealed criminal complaint reveals that Farhad Shakeri, 51, ...

Politics - The Hill - November 8

Iranian Agents Plotted to Kill Trump, U.S. Says in Unsealed Charges

The allegation came in a complaint that said Masih Alinejad, a Brooklyn activist, had been the target of a second assassination attempt.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 9

Military officials reportedly discuss how to handle illegal orders from Trump – live

Pentagon officials discuss what to do if Trump were to attempt to deploy the military domestically, CNN reports. Nancy Pelosi says Biden’s delay in exiting race blew Democrats’ chances ...

World - The Guardian - November 9

US alleges Iranian man was hired to plot Trump assassination

Officials describe Tehran’s ‘brazen attempts’ to target critics of the regime

Business - Financial Times - November 8

What we know about the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Trump

The Department of Justice has revealed criminal charges in connection with a failed Iranian plot to kill U.S. officials, including President-elect Donald Trump. The DOJ named three individuals in a ...

Top stories - CBS News - November 8

Justice Department files charges in murder-for-hire scheme targeting Donald Trump

The Department of Justice announced charges against an Iranian man and two others in a plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump.

Politics - NBC News - November 8

Iranian operative charged for Trump assassination plot, court records reveal

An operative for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was tasked with "surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating" Donald Trump, according to court records. Prosecutors say Farhad Shakeri was ...

Top stories - CBS News - November 8

Charges filed in Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump

Two men are in federal custody and a third is wanted in connection with what authorities are calling an Iranian murder-for-hire plot against President-elect Donald Trump. Prosecutors allege one of ...

Top stories - CBS News - November 8

DOJ announces charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump

The Justice Department disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump, announcing charges against three men. Two are in federal custody, and the third is believed to ...

Iranian American human rights activist expresses defiance over Iranian plots to kill her and Trump

A prominent Iranian American human rights activist has expressed shock but also defiance about Iranian murder-for-hire plots to kill her and Donald Trump that were disclosed by the U.S. Justice ...

World - ABC News - November 9

Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot

Indian chair of Adani Group, worth about $85bn, accused of agreeing to pay bribes to obtain solar energy contracts. Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, has been indicted in New York over ...

World - The Guardian - 2 days ago

Brazil police call for Jair Bolsonaro to be charged for alleged coup plot

Former rightwing president among dozens accused of involvement in scheme to prevent Lula taking office

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

Brazilian Police Arrest Soldiers in Alleged Plot to Kill President Lula

Members of an elite army unit planned to kill Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022 as part of an effort to keep Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the presidential election.

World - The New York Times - 3 days ago

3 charged in Iran-linked plot to kill Donald Trump

Three individuals living in the U.S. have been charged in connection to an apparent plan to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, unsealed court records show. Jon Alterman, senior vice ...

Top stories - CBS News - November 8

Canada reportedly foils Iranian plot to kill former justice minister Irwin Cotler

Tehran alleged to have targeted retired politician, 84, who is also human rights activist and critic of Iran. Canadian authorities foiled an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate a former justice ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Florida man arrested in alleged plot to bomb New York Stock Exchange

South Florida native Harun Abdul-Malik Yener was charged with attempted use of an explosive to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce.

Police arrest ex-Bolsonaro aide, four others, in alleged plot to kill Brazil’s Lula in coup

The arrests were the first time in the investigation that federal police mentioned a plot to kill Lula and Geraldo Alckmin, his vice-presidential choice, and stage a coup to stop him returning to ...

Brazil police arrest 5 officers over alleged coup plot, plans to kill President Lula

Brazil's federal police have arrested five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio ...

World - ABC News - 3 days ago

Brazil arrests five military and police officers over alleged plot to kill Lula

Federal police say group had eyed killings of then president-elect along with his deputy and a supreme court judge

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

Iranian-American journalist held in Iran, U.S. says

Reza Valizadeh had worked for Radio Farda, an outlet under Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that's overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

FBI arrests homeless Florida man in alleged plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange

A homeless Florida man was arrested Wednesday for an alleged plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, according to a criminal complaint.

Florida man arrested for alleged terror plot against New York Stock Exchange

The FBI has arrested a Florida man who's accused of plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. CBS News New York reporter Allen Devlin has more.

Israeli strikes kill 38 people in Gaza's Khan Younis and 3 journalists in southern Lebanon

Israeli strikes have killed 38 people in Gaza and three journalists in Lebanon on Friday

World - ABC News - October 25

Lebanon state news says an Israeli airstrike on a journalist compound killed 3 TV staffers

World - ABC News - October 25

US-Iranian journalist believed to have been detained in Iran

News of Reza Valizadeh’s imprisonment comes as Iran marks 45th anniversary of US embassy hostage crisis. An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a US government-funded broadcaster is ...

World - The Guardian - November 3

German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd executed on terrorism charges

World - Yahoo News - October 28

Russia Is Accused of Terrorism in Alleged Incendiary-Device Plot

Lithuania said an operation to send explosives by mail shouldn’t go unanswered.

World - The Wall Street Journal - November 5

Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike

World - Yahoo News - October 25

Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike

Israel is accused of targeting a compound housing journalists in southern Lebanon.

Three journalists killed in Israeli air strike in Lebanon

Attack on journalists who were sleeping in residential compound condemned as ‘war crime’ by Lebanese minister

Business - Financial Times - October 25

Israel is ethnically cleansing in Gaza, Jordan charges

Jordan confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken with a stark and unwelcome assessment: Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians from northern Gaza.

Iranian General Charged in Alleged Plot to Kill New Yorkbased Journalist

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