Michael Balsamo
The Associated Press
Washington, DC, United States
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Hostage-taker at Texas synagogue was a British national
The man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue is identified as a 44-year-old British national. → Read More
‘An act of terror’: British national ID’d as man who took hostages at Texas synagogue
Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.” → Read More
British national ID'd as hostage-taker at Texas synagogue
Authorities have identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.” → Read More
British national ID’d as hostage-taker at Texas synagogue
COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team sto… → Read More
Hostages safe after Texas synagogue standoff; captor dead
Four hostages are safe and their captor is dead after an hourslong standoff that began when the man took over services at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting on a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan. → Read More
British national ID'd as hostage-taker at Texas synagogue
COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities on Sunday identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called "an act of terror. " Malik Faisal Akram was shot and killed after the last of the hostages got out at around 9 p. m. Saturday at… → Read More
Hostages safe after Texas synagogue standoff; captor dead
Four hostages are safe and their captor is dead after an hourslong standoff that began when the man took over services at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting on a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan. → Read More
Hostages safe after Texas synagogue standoff; captor dead
A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan → Read More
Hostages safe after Texas synagogue standoff; captor dead
COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — Four hostages are safe and their captor is dead after an hourslong standoff that began when the man took over services at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting on a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army […] → Read More
British man identified as hostage-taker at Texas synagogue
Authorities have identified a 44-year-old British national as the man who took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue for 10 hours before an FBI SWAT team stormed the building, ending a tense standoff that President Joe Biden called “an act of terror.”. → Read More
FBI: Hostage taker was not focused on Jewish community
COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — The FBI says the man who held hostages for hours inside a Texas synagogue was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community. → Read More
FBI: Hostage taker was not focused on Jewish community
The FBI says the man who held hostages for hours inside a Texas synagogue was specifically focused on an issue not directly connected to the Jewish community → Read More
Hostages safe after standoff inside Texas synagogue
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tweeted that all hostages are safe after Saturday’s standoff inside a Dallas-area synagogue → Read More
Man takes hostages at synagogue, demands prisoner be freed
Police say one hostage has been released uninjured from a Texas synagogue where a man had been holding four people → Read More
Hostages safe after Texas synagogue standoff; captor dead
A man held hostages for more than 10 hours Saturday at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a... → Read More
Thousands of federal inmates to be released under 2018 law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will begin transferring thousands of inmates out of federal prisons this week as part of a sweeping criminal justice overhaul signed by President Donald Trump more than three years ago. The department, in a rule being published Thursday in the Federal Register, is spelling out how "time credits" for prisoners will work. → Read More
Seditious conspiracy: 11 Oath Keepers charged in Jan. 6 riot
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, and 10 other members or associates have been charged with seditious conspiracy in the vio… → Read More
Seditious conspiracy: 11 Oath Keepers charged in Jan. 6 riot
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol → Read More
Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 others charged with seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Stewart Rhodes is the highest-ranking member of an extremist group to be arrested in the deadly siege and it is the first time the Justice Department has brought a seditious → Read More
Oath Keepers head charged with Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol → Read More