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A woman was charged Thursday with plotting to plant a bomb at the New York State Capitol.
“Samuel King, with the New York Public News Network reports on court documents that alleged”
she pledged to allegiance to the Islamic State. Federal law enforcement agents say Jessica Bowie had a gun and a dummy explosive device with her Wednesday as she met with informants who she thought were helping her carry out her plan to destroy as much of the Capitol as possible. "Kill all the senators."
First assisted U.S. attorney John Sarkone says the U.S. should serve as a warning to other
would-be terrorists. "We are vigilant, we are prepared, and just as we stop this defendant, we will continue to disrupt plots and protect the American people." The U.S. comes just weeks before the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the FBI says they've stopped more than 400 individuals from carrying out alleged attacks here at home
and abroad. For MPR News, I'm Samuel King in Albany, Treasury Secretary Scott Basin says it may take a while to see results from his attempt to calm the bond market.
“"Anything that happens within a 24-hour period is noise, and I think that once the market”
understands it, we are focused on physical consolidation, and that we are trying to bring the market back into equilibrium in a thinly traded market. I think I'm confident that bonds will continue to climb." Basin denounced Wednesday that Treasury would double the size of a bond buyback program starting next month, but bond yields resumed climbing Thursday, the yield on the 10-year
Treasury note, a key benchmark for mortgage rates rose back above 4.6 percent Thursday.
Fortune Rescue Operation has been launched in Alaska, the National Transportation Safety Board's Alaska Region Chief says information is preliminary right now, but that a charter plane with eight people on board is believed to have crashed on a approach to Cape New and Ham on the Bering Sea. World Central Kitchen, the eight organization founded by Chef Jose Andres, is condemning
an Israeli military decision not to open a criminal investigation into the killing of seven of its workers in Gaza, and April 2024, a tight-stird report. These really armies says its forces mistakenly believed Hamas operatives has taken control of a world central kitchen convoy, an acknowledged serious failures, but found no reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct.
World Central Kitchen strongly rejects that accounts saying the idea of new its team was unarmed, new their movements and identities, and had clear visibility of their marked vehicles. World organizations calls the decision deeply offensive and is demanding an independent investigation.
Gaza has been the world's deadliest context for aid workers for three years running according to the UN. You're listening to NPR News. A court in Hong Kong has convicted two former organizers of the city's Tiananmen Square vigils that were charged in 2021 of inciting subversion under the Beijing imposed national security
law that face up to 10 years in prison when they're sentenced.
“The Hong Kong vigils were held for decades, and remember, in the 1989 Tiananmen Square”
crackdown, they drew tens of thousands, but were banned in 2020 during the first year
of the COVID pandemic. Young Americans are moving away from the two party system that's according to a new formation survey, which finds in half of the adults between the ages of 18 and 35 34, rather identify as independent, and appears in later more reports. Just 21% of young adults say they're Republican, and 30% say Democrat, but independence
make up the majority at 50%, which is higher than the national average at 43%. The poll also finds that young Americans aren't as turned off by some ideological labels. Take the term Democratic Socialist, nearly 40% of average adults hold a negative position, but among folks under 34, less than 30% feel that way. The term MAGA is a different story.
More than 50% of national adults have a negative view, and among young people, it climbs to nearly 60%, Elena Moore and Pyreneus. Tennis star Carlos Alcaras confirmed Thursday that he will defend his U.S. open title. He posted social media messages Thursday with one picture showing him in front of the U.S. open logo Alcaras has been sidelined with a wrist injury since April.
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