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A man from Grimes County, Texas has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill President Donald Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk, and FBI agents.

According to the arrest affidavit, Peter James Bloomfield of Iola is accused of operating an X account of the name @fenrisL18223, which the FBI was alerted to earlier this month after it posted a handful of slur- and obscenity-laced violent threats against public figures and federal agents.

Among the posts made by the account included: “Where’s the closest FBI office? Maybe I’ll kill several Agents since America is (expletive),” “I might spend my money to blow up the White House and kill some billionaire Jews,” and “I want to shoot someone even if it’s a Gay Zionist Jew, a MIGA Trump loving (slur), or a transgender Liberal (slur)."...

ICE agents turned a protester's violent arrest at gunpoint into a social media campaign, which a federal judge has now called a "vindictive effort" to punish him, The Guardian reported on Friday.

Christian Cerna, 28, a carpenter from Boyle Heights and United States citizen, was targeted by ICE agents after he attended a protest against the aggressive federal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles. Cerna was driving with his partner and their two children in Los Angeles on June 11, 2025, when two vehicles slammed into his car, and a group of armed men ran towards them. They detonated flash-bangs and drew assault rifles on the family while another agent arrived with a handheld tripod to capture the chaos.

"I have kids!" Cerna pleaded. "Shut the [expletive] up and listen!" an officer barked back....

New details emerged Tuesday afternoon after Capitol police took into custody an 18-year-old man who was running towards the Capitol with a loaded shotgun and wearing a tactical vest.

Police saw a white Mercedes SUV parked in the 100 block of Maryland Avenue, just west of the Capitol steps, shortly after noon eastern time, Chief Michael Sullivan of the U.S. Capitol Police told reporters.

Police saw a person exit the car and run toward the Capitol steps with the shotgun, CNN's Brian Todd relayed to viewers. They ordered him to drop to the ground and give up his weapon. He then got on the ground, put down the shotgun, and was taken into custody. ...

Two teens have been arrested and charged as adults in the deadly shooting of a young congressional intern.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the pair of 17-year-olds have been charged with murder in the June 30 slaying of 21-year-old Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, who shot four times when the teens allegedly opened fire from a stolen car, reported WRC-TV.

“The D.C. Council thinks they need to be protected," said Pirro, a former Fox News host, at a news conference announcing the arrests. "They don’t need to be protected. We need to be protected,”...

Former FBI source Alexander Smirnov was arrested for a second time Thursday for making false statements to federal law enforcement.

"YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to arrest ALEXANDER SMIRNOV and bring him forthwith to District Judge, Otis D. Wright, II," the warrant stated, "to answer an Indictment charging him with False Statements to Federal Law Enforcement, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001, and Creating a False or Fictitious Record, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 1519."

Attorneys for Smirnov objected to his incarceration and asked for an immediate hearing. ...

According to a Friday, August 25 Washington Post report, court records reveal that a losing Chesapeake, Virginia school board candidate was arrested and charged this week for allegedly attacking police during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Post reports:

In 2022, Miller told the news station 10 WAVY that he was running for school board because he was against mask mandates at his daughters' schools. In an appeal on the conservative fundraising website GiveSendGo, Miller also called for a ban on 'all political activism and symbolism inside the schools.' He described himself as a disabled U.S. Army veteran who received Special Forces training. A witness told investigators Miller was part of a group called the Constitutional Defense League and took part in past protests at the Virginia Capitol in Richmond....