Category: Security

Actor Eric Dane, best known for his roles on “Grey’s Anatomy” and more recently on “Euphoria,” reportedly has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The actor shared his diagnosis with People on Thursday, saying that he feels “fortunate” to be able to continue to work, and that he will return to the set of “Euphoria” next week.

“I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter,” he told People before requesting privacy for himself and his family.

The progressive neurodegenerative disease destroys nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that are needed to walk, talk, swallow and — eventually — breathe, according to the ALS Assn. There is no cure, and most people die within three to five years of their first symptoms, although some live for much longer.

Dane, 52, is married to actor Rebecca Gayheart, with whom he has two daughters.

The actor has been vocal about his battle with depression and his road to sobriety after drug and alcohol addiction.

On the popular Max series “Euphoria,” Dane plays Cal Jacobs, father of Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs. Dane has been acclaimed for his role on the show.

The long-anticipated third season of “Euphoria” is in production.

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Donald Trump’s annual physical examination found that the 78-year-old president was “fully fit to execute the duties of the Commander-in-Chief and Head of State.”

There were “no abnormalities in his mental status, cranial nerves, motor and sensory function, reflexes, gait and balance,” the White House physician, Sean P. Barbabella, wrote in a memo released Sunday, adding that Trump “remains in excellent health.”

The President’s cognitive function is normal, Barbabella said, adding that he scored 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

The White House published the memo following Trump’s Friday exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The President previewed the release of the report over the weekend, telling reporters he aced a cognitive test during the roughly four-hour physical exam.

Trump is listed as 224 pounds (102 kilograms) and 75 inches (190.5 centimeters) tall. He is taking Rosuvastatin and Ezetimibe for cholesterol control, aspirin for cardiac prevention, and Mometasone cream, as needed, for a skin condition. All of Trump’s recommended vaccinations are current.

Barbabella noted scarring on Trump’s right ear, from his gunshot wound incurred from an assassination attempt during last year’s election campaign.

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Iran warned against any military aggression while reiterating its commitment to regional peace and a civilian nuclear program in its official response to a recent letter by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Iranian military official said.

Trump last month told Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a letter that his country had two months to reach a new nuclear agreement or face possible military action. In his reply, Khamenei made clear that Iran “won’t start a war, but will respond to any threat with full force,” the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing Major-General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces.

“It was established by the supreme leader that we seek peace in the region, and we don’t pursue nuclear weapons in our nuclear program, but rather the needs of our own people,” Bagheri said.

Trump was also told in Khamenei’s message that Iran won’t hold direct talks with his administration, “but indirect talks are acceptable,” Bagheri said. The text of the letter hasn’t been officially published.

The U.S. president said last week he believed the Islamic Republic was open to direct negotiations over its nuclear program, despite Iranians previously rejecting that assumption. On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reaffirmed Tehran’s position, saying that direct talks with Washington would be “meaningless,” but that Iran remains “willing to explore the path of indirect negotiations.”

In 2018, Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from a global agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Since returning to office, he has reintroduced his so-called “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran, escalating sanctions and warning of possible military action if efforts for a new deal collapse.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced that the owner of a sushi restaurant in New Jersey was arrested after being convicted as an “unregistered foreign agent” working for the Chinese government.

In a recent press release, ICE announced that officials had “apprehended a Chinese national who was convicted of illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government.”

The Post Millennial reported that 61-year-old Ming Xi Zhang, also known as “Sushi John” was arrested by ICE agents in Newark, New Jersey, on March 24. According to the outlet, Zhang, who owns Ya Ya Noodles in Montgomery Township, New Jersey, was previously sentenced to three years of probation after being convicted in April of 2024 for working as an unregistered foreign agent.

In the recent press release, ICE stated, “The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey convicted Zhang for illegally acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and sentenced him on April 30, 2024, to probation for a term of three years.”

According to The Post Millennial, prior to his conviction last year, the 61-year-old restaurant owner pleaded guilty in May of 2021 to serving as an unregistered Chinese agent in 2016.

READ MORE: China’s military buildup poses ‘real and serious threat,’ Pentagon warns

ICE confirmed that Zhang entered the United States legally in June of 2000; however, ICE officials noted that the restaurant owner “violated the terms of his lawful admission” by working as a Chinese foreign agent.

In the press release, ICE Newark Field Office Director John Tsoukaris warned, “Any illegal alien conducting activities related to espionage, sabotage or export control against the United States is subject to deportation.”

According to NJ.com, the restaurant owner’s daughter, Emily Zhang, ICE officials arrested her father in March after law enforcement officials asked the 61-year-old to check in with them. “We’re all just kind of hoping, waiting for bond, parole, whatever it is,” Emily Zhang, told the outlet.

NJ.com reported that Ming Xi Zhang’s foreign agent charge resulted from multiple meetings the restaurant owner had with representatives from China’s Ministry of State Security in April of 2016. According to the outlet, the Chinese representatives instructed Zhang to secure $35,000 and give it to “another individual.”

After receiving the instructions, Zhang reportedly gave the money to the unidentified individual in the same area where his restaurant is located in New Jersey, according to NJ.com. The outlet noted that Zhang also previously admitted that he hosted a Chinese government agent at his home in Princeton twice in 2016.

A male suspect was arrested after allegedly setting Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s mansion on fire while the governor’s family was asleep early on Sunday morning.

According to a probable cause affidavit released by Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo, “an individual attacked the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg while Governor Shapiro and his family were within the residence.”

The probable cause affidavit noted that video surveillance obtained by law enforcement officials showed the suspect surveilling the governor’s mansion before “unlawfully entering the grounds over a wall in the early morning hours.”

“He approached one of the window[s] on the south side of the residence. Using a hammer he had brought, he quickly broke the window after multiple blows,” officials added in the probable cause affidavit. “He then threw a Molotov Cocktail into the residence igniting a substantial fire within. The perpetrator then moved to a window to the east and forcibly entered the residence. Within the Residence, he started two more fires with two other Molotov Cocktails. He then fled through a fire door.”

According to the affidavit, Shapiro and his family were forced to evacuate due to Sunday’s attack. The affidavit also confirmed that the governor’s mansion sustained “substantial damage” due to the fire.

READ MORE: Attempted assassination suspect to plead guilty

According to Fox News, law enforcement officials identified the suspect as 38-year-old Cody Balmer during a Sunday evening news conference. Officials also told reporters that Sunday’s arson attack occurred at roughly 2 a.m.

The New York Post reported that Balmer told police officials that he had planned to beat the governor with a hammer if he had encountered Shapiro during Sunday’s incident. According to Fox News, Balmer is expected to be charged with terrorism, attempted murder, aggravated arson, and aggravated assault against an enumerated person.

During Sunday’s press conference, law enforcement officials confirmed that the fire at the governor’s mansion had been extinguished and that no one was injured in the attack. Police officials told reporters, “While the investigation is ongoing, the State Police is prepared to say at this time that this was an act of arson.”

During a Sunday press conference, Shapiro publicly addressed the attack against his home, saying, “This kind of violence is not okay. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. And I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another, or one particular person or another. It is not okay, and it has to stop. We have to be better than this, and we have a responsibility to all be better.”

Last night at the Governor’s Residence, we experienced an attack not just on our family, but on the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

This kind of violence has become far too common in our society, and it has to stop. pic.twitter.com/5HP5JSvgfc

— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) April 13, 2025

Pictures of the damage caused by the arson attack against the governor’s mansion have been shared on X, formerly Twitter.

Pictures from @JoshShapiroPA’s home firebombed at 2am last night while his family was sleeping.

The hate and rhetoric is out of control.

Every elected official who failed to condemn political violence, I hold responsible. pic.twitter.com/LTN4mrE1lq

— AlaskaBird (@AlaskaBird__) April 14, 2025

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has alleged that a 17-year-old linked to a “Satanic cult” was plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump alongside accomplices in Ukraine and Russia.

A recent FBI affidavit claims that 17-year-old Nikita Casap, who has been charged with murdering his mother and stepfather, was plotting an assassination attempt against Trump.

According to The Daily Caller, court documents claim that Casap was in communication with contacts located in Ukraine and Russia regarding the procurement of weapons and other details related to an assassination plot against the 47th president. The outlet noted that following his arrest in February, the Department of Justice alleged that the 17-year-old murdered his parents after being influenced by a “nihilistic” ideology.

According to the FBI’s affidavit, the 17-year-old suspect was involved in a Satanic cult and Russian neo-Nazi organization called National Socialism/White Power. The FBI claimed that Casap had communicated with one individual “in Russian” and with another individual with a Ukrainian phone number regarding his plot to assassinate Trump and overthrow the U.S. government. The affidavit accuses Casap of allegedly talking with his contacts regarding the procurement of a drone that could “drop a bomb,” as well as plans to escape to Ukraine after assassinating the president.

According to WTMJ, Casap allegedly killed his mother and stepfather in February and lived with the two dead bodies for approximately two weeks prior to his arrest on February 28.

READ MORE: Trump attempted assassin may have had help from ‘criminal network,’ investigator says

“He was in touch with other parties about his plan to kill the President and overthrow the government of the United States,” the FBI said. “And he paid for, at least in part, a drone and explosives to be used as a weapon of mass destruction to commit and attack. The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan.”

The FBI affidavit also claims that Casap was part of a “Satanic cult” called the Order of Nine Angles. According to the FBI, the cult “encourages violence, terrorism, sexual abuse, and child pornography” and promotes “anti-Judaic, anti-Christian, and anti-Western ideologies.”

Additionally, the FBI said Casap is part of a trend of individuals identified as “Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVEs),” whose actions are linked to a “hatred of society at large and a desire to bring about its collapse by sowing indiscriminate chaos, destruction, and social instability.”

In a “manifesto” discovered by the FBI, Casap allegedly said, “By getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president, that is guaranteed to bring in some chaos.” The 17-year-old allegedly added, “And not only that, but it will bring further into the public the idea that assassinations and accelerating the collapse are possible things to do.”

The U.S. Justice Department announced on Monday that the suspect behind the recent “arson attacks” against the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters and the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom has been arrested by the FBI and charged by the Justice Department.

In a Monday press release, the Justice Department said federal charges had been filed against 40-year-old Jamison Wagner over the recent “arson attacks” that targeted the state GOP headquarters and the Tesla facility. The Justice Department explained that the 40-year-old suspect had been linked to both arson incidents through scene evidence and surveillance footage.

“Let this be the final lesson to those taking part in this ongoing wave of political violence,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in Monday’s press release. “We will arrest you, we will prosecute you, and we will not negotiate. Crimes have consequences.”

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche noted that “hurling firebombs” is not considered “political protest” but is a “dangerous felony that we will prosecute to the maximum extent.”

Blanche added, “The impressive work by law enforcement in New Mexico sends a clear message to perpetrators of all of the shameful attacks on Tesla facilities and political establishments: we are coming for you, you can’t hide, and you will do serious jail time to pay for your crimes.”

READ MORE: Pics: ‘Explosion’ at Tesla charging station sparks FBI investigation: Report

According to the Justice Department, the first arson attack occurred on February 9 and involved two Tesla vehicles at the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom being targeted with an incendiary device. Investigators discovered an “intact glass container containing an improvised napalm material” in one of the vehicles. The Justice Department added that the outside of the Tesla facility and six other vehicles were covered in graffiti, including swastikas and the words “Die Tesla Nazi,” “Die Elon,” and “Tesla Nazi Inc.”

In Monday’s press release, the Justice Department said the second arson attack occurred on March 30 at the New Mexico GOP headquarters. The Justice Department explained that the fire “significantly damaged the front door and entry area” and that the phrase “ICE = KKK” was spray-painted on the GOP headquarters building.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel confirmed that Wagner’s arrest is part of the agency’s “aggressive efforts to investigate and hold accountable those who have targeted Tesla facilities in various states across the country.”

Patel added, “Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, we will continue to locate and arrest those responsible for these acts of domestic terrorism, and the FBI will work with partners at the Department of Justice to ensure such lawbreakers face justice.”

A Navy buddy of doomed helicopter pilot Seankese “Sean” Johnson said he doubts the chopper crashed into the Hudson River Thursday simply because it ran out of gas.

Remi Adeleke, 42, a 13-year Navy SEAL veteran, suspects a “maintenance issue” is at the root of the deadly crash, which claimed the lives of Johnson and a family of five from Spain.

“Even if you ran out of fuel it’s not going to cause your propeller blade to detach and fall off,” Adeleke told the Daily News. “I’m looking forward to see the autopsy on the helo (helicopter) and what that shows.”

“It was super sad what happened,” he added. “It was totally unexpected.”

New York Helicopter CEO Michael Roth told The Telegraph that Johnson radioed before plummeting into the water that he was low on fuel and was heading back to the helipad.

Adeleke told The News that he believes that doesn’t explain the crash.

“He is smart enough not to be like ‘Oh, I’m passed E (empty), lets keep flying around,”” he said. “Maintenance had to be the issue with this helicopter. I’ve flown on many helicopters in my career and a helicopter just doesn’t split apart like that in midair.”

“The fact the entire propeller blade detached from the helo and another part of the helo detached and went down, that’s a maintenance issue,” he added. “Something wasn’t locked down or screwed down.”

The NTSB is still investigating the cause of the crash. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Friday the investigation would look at “reports of a large flock of birds in the area shortly before the crash.” On Saturday, the agency reported that the Bell 2-6 L-4 helicopter was on its eighth flight of the day and had no flight recorders equipped.

Spanish tourists Agustin Escobar, the CEO of Rail Infrastructure at Siemens Mobility, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three young children all died in the crash, as did Johnson, after pieces of the helicopter, including the rotor, appeared to break off in midair.

Adeleke, a writer and actor, met Johnson in 2014 when Johnson was working in Navy tactical support.

“He was like a little brother,” Adeleke said. “He would refer to me as brother and I referred to him as brother as well. We were close.”

The two bonded over shared experience. Adeleke grew up in the Bronx and his dad died young while Johnson grew up in Chicago and didn’t have much contact with his father.

“One thing we discussed was I’m African-American from the Bronx,” Adeleke said. “One percent of Navy SEALS are African-American and I became a SEAL and I’m from the hood and that inspired him. I kind of took him under my wing and became like a father figure and would provide that affirmation to him.”

Johnson worked in executive security after leaving the Navy but had dreams of becoming a pilot, Adeleke said.

“I know he wanted to inspire other young Black men and kids in the inner city to aim high and do something that isn’t expected,” Adeleke said. “Because it wasn’t expected for a kid from Chicago to become a pilot.”

Johnson would text every time he passed a milestone in flight school.

“He was a very genuinely good person. He was like a light in a room. Everybody gravitated towards him, not because he was a charismatic or the life of a party but because he had that aura of a calm, cool, respectable guy,” Adeleke said. “He had a very memorable smile. He was always in a happy mood and he was super giving — like tremendously giving of his time and whatever he had to give.”

Adeleke said he saw a news alert about the helicopter crash but didn’t think much of it at first. Last he knew, Johnson was doing helicopter tours in Las Vegas, he said.

“The New York move was new to me,” he said.

Then he got a message from Johnson’s wife.

“It was a one-paragraph text but it was a long paragraph,” he said. “Two words stuck out to me, ‘Sean’ and ‘passed.’”

Adeleke also was saddened by the death of the tourist family.

“Two generations wiped out,” he said. “My prayers are with the family. The only blessing in it is that they were all together but I would just pray. As a parent that’s just a hard situation to even process.”

Messages of support have been pouring in, from “people who I didn’t know but was with him in flight school or worked with him in Vegas or did executive protection with him,” Adeleke said. “He was just a straight-up good dude, a likable dude. It would be hard for you to find someone who didn’t like him.”

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Ukraine said more than two dozen people were killed and scores injured after Russian missiles struck the city of Sumy, days after U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war.

Two ballistic missiles hit the center of the city, in northeastern Ukraine, on Palm Sunday morning, the city’s regional administration said on its Telegram channel.

At least 34 people were killed and 117 injured, including children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media. The missile strikes came as many people were out on the streets and traveling in cars and on public transportation,

At least one of the missiles was equipped with cluster munitions in order to maximize casualties, Andriy Yermak, top aide to Zelenskyy, said on Telegram. The missiles involved in Russia’s deadliest strike of 2025 so far were fired from Russia’s Kursk and Voronezh regions, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, said on Telegram.

The projectiles were said to be Iskander-M/KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea, which Russia is believed to have been since late 2023.

“The world must respond firmly. The United States, Europe, everyone in the world who wants this war and these killings to end,” Zelenskyy said on social media. “Russia wants exactly this kind of terror and is dragging this war out.”

The missile attack in the city with a pre-war population of about 275,000 came on the day Christians celebrated the start of Holy Week, and just days after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Russia in his bid to secure a ceasefire in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trump had said on Friday on his social media platform that “Russia has to get moving” and bemoaned the death toll from the war, now well into its fourth year. Witkoff, who’s become a key intermediary on Ukraine for Trump’s attempts to bring an end to the fighting, traveled to St. Petersburg the same day for his third meeting with Putin.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks with the U.S. envoy were “an additional step” toward a meeting between Trump and Putin, which he said would happen in “due time,” though preparation was still needed.

Peskov said in an interview — excerpts of which were posted Sunday by state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin — that U.S.-Russian dialogue was progressing “really well,” but that it was difficult to restore relations from practically nothing.

Negotiations on a ceasefire — which Trump predicted he could achieve soon after his January inauguration — have stalled following talks in Saudi Arabia last month. Russia is demanding the reconnection of one of its largest state banks to the SWIFT international messaging system that’s under the European Union’s jurisdiction as a condition for accepting a U.S.-brokered truce in the Black Sea.

“It’s now the second month that Putin has been ignoring the U.S. proposal for a full and unconditional ceasefire,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram. “Unfortunately, there in Moscow they are convinced they can keep killing with impunity.”

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of breaching a 30-day moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure that’s due to expire April 18.

Sunday’s strike by Russia on Sumy follows one earlier in the month on Kryvih Rih in central Ukraine, Zelenskyy’s home town, that killed at least 20 people, including nine children.

Separately, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday it had downed a Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet. Zelenskyy on Saturday said that the plane’s 26-year-old pilot was killed in combat, but that authorities were looking into what had happened, in the second publicly known instance of Ukraine losing that type of aircraft along with its pilot since August.

Ukraine’s forces attacked Russia’s Belgorod region, just over the nations’ border, with 78 drones over the past day, the area’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on his Telegram channel.

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The family of the 17-year-old suspect who was arrested after fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, earlier this month has revealed that it plans to use the funds raised for the suspect’s defense to move to a different house and hire security amid allegations of racist threats against the family.

According to Fox News, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony was released from jail on Monday after his bond was reduced from $1 million to $250,000 on Monday morning. The outlet noted that the 17-year-old suspect currently faces first-degree murder charges related to the fatal stabbing of Metcalf.  

Fox News reported that under the conditions of his bail release from jail, Anthony will be placed under house arrest, will be forced to wear an ankle monitor, and will not be able to leave his house without permission from a judge.

During a court hearing, Andrew Anthony, the suspect’s father, was asked why the family could not use over $415,000 in crowdsourced funds for Karmelo Anthony’s legal defense to cover the initial $1 million bond, according to The Daily Mail. The outlet reported that while the suspect’s father claimed the donations would be used to cover Anthony’s legal costs, he noted that the money would also be used to help the family move to a different location and for security costs due to alleged threats against the family in the aftermath of the fatal stabbing incident earlier this month.

READ MORE: Video/Pics: Teen stabbed to death at high school track meet

According to The Daily Mail, a family spokesperson claimed that the Anthony family has been unable to leave their home following the leak of their address online. The spokesperson claimed that the family has received “graphic and racist threats,” including images of “black children with knives stuck in their head.”

Michael Howard, Karmelo Anthony’s attorney, addressed the donations, saying, “It would be disingenuous to say there isn’t money… But it is not a bond fund. This family needs to be able to survive.”

According to Fox 4, Judge Angela Tucker, who presided over the bond court hearing, admitted that she has not previously experienced the level of security issues that have surrounded the 17-year-old’s case. During the hearing, the judge emphasized that it was only a bond hearing and not the actual trial in the case. The judge added that the purpose of a bond was to protect the community and make sure that a defendant appeared in court.

“I don’t take that lightly at all. I take those things very seriously,” the judge said. “There is no replacement for the loss of life or the loss of a child. I don’t want the family to think a bond amount is connected to the dignity of loss. You cannot make the person come back.”