explosive device

More than 160 homemade explosive devices and 40 containers meant to be used as fireworks were confiscated in Beverly, Massachusetts ahead of the Independence Day holiday.

Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, but it turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with nuts and bolts left in the schoolyard. School officials in Helena made the discovery shortly before classes began at Rossiter Elementary School. They blocked off...

A homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub. The “loud thud” Sunday night close to riot officers who had been clearing away a protester-built road block...

President Donald Trump’s weekend tweet canceling secret meetings at Camp David with the Taliban and Afghan leaders just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is the latest example of a commander in chief willing to take a big risk in pursuit of a foreign policy victory only to see it dashed. What had seemed like an imminent...

A shotgun-wielding suspect injured an officer who responded to a domestic violence report Saturday. Officers then found two dead people, a dead pit bull, several rifles and what appeared to be an explosive device.

A 22-year-old Queens man who lived with his parents and allegedly wanted to shoot up Times Square has been arrested after federal authorities who had been surveilling him say he tried to buy guns, a senior law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told News 4 Friday.

A U.S. attorney’s office news release says the device was placed at the hospital near Tampa on May 29 as the FBI, Tampa police and other law enforcement agencies responded.

The main suspect in the bombing last week in the French city of Lyon that wounded 14 people had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor said on Friday. Remy Heitz said in a statement the 24-year-old man has admitted making the bomb and depositing the device in front of a bakery. He will be brought before...

As Marine veteran Micah Herndon dropped to his knees and began crawling in Monday’s Boston Marathon, there was no way the pain in his legs was going to stop him from crossing the finish line. Running in the memory of fallen comrades Mark Juarez, Matthew Ballard, and Rupert Hamer, the 31-year-old relied on his military training to finish the race,...

A 48-year-old man was sentenced to 19 years, four months behind bars Monday for possession of bomb-making materials found in his car during a traffic stop in Brea.

A man who allegedly planted a fake bomb underneath a Christmas tree in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire just prior to the start of the city’s annual parade is facing multiple charges. Richard Todd Will, 36, no fixed address, is charged with criminal threatening and disorderly conduct. He is free on personal recognizance bail and is scheduled to be arraigned on...

The Pentagon has released the names of three U.S. servicemen killed Tuesday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. They are Army Capt. Andrew Patrick Ross, age 29, of Lexington, Virginia; Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Michael Emond, age 39, of Brush Prairie, Washington; and Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, age 25, of Hookstown, Pennsylvania.

A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the U.S. military said, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan in the last 17 months. The military said that three other service members were wounded when the bomb went off near the city of Ghazni. An American contractor was also wounded,...

An image on the explosive device sent to former CIA Director John Brennan on Tuesday appears to be a parody of an ISIS flag taken from a meme that has been circulating on right-wing corners of the internet since 2014....
The print-out appears to show a parody flag that replaces Arabic characters with the silhouette of three women in high heels,...

A bomb was found in a mailbox at the suburban New York home of George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist who has been denounced by President Donald Trump and vilified by right-wing conspiracy theorists, authorities said Tuesday....
Federal agents safely detonated the device after being summoned Monday by a security officer at the sprawling, wooded compound, about 50 miles north of...

Russian authorities in Crimea were searching Thursday for a possible accomplice of the student whose shooting-and-bomb attack on his vocational school killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 others, a top official said. The 18-year-old student, who authorities said later killed himself in the school’s library, was initially believed to be the only person involved in the carnage Wednesday...

A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night. Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific...

Seventeen people were killed at a crowded nightclub in Venezuela’s capital Saturday after a tear gas device exploded during a brawl and triggered a desperate stampede among hundreds gathered for a graduation celebration, government officials said. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the incident at the “Los Cotorros” club in the middle-class neighborhood of El Paraiso left eight minors dead and...

An officer who died a year after he was wounded in a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombers has been posthumously promoted.