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An FBI official on Monday pleaded with whoever is responsible for a series of bombings in Austin, Texas, to come forward. "We would like him to reach out and talk to us," said Christopher Combs, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio division.
Tadesse is a 28-year-old Ethiopian from the capital, Addis Ababa. Like thousands of others he took part in demonstrations over the last three years, and together with family members, refused to pledge support for the Ethiopian government.
Austin residents are being told to be vigilant about unexpected or suspicious packages at their door after a series of package bombs killed two people and critically injured a woman. It's not known if the victims knew each other or if they were targeted, he said.
An Austin teenager was killed and several others injured Monday when two packages left on doorsteps exploded, marking the second and third deadly package explosions in the Texas capital in two weeks. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the three incidents displayed enough similarities to lead police to investigate them together.
By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas - Package bombs that killed a teenager and wounded two women Monday in Austin are probably linked to a similar bombing that killed a man in the city earlier this month, authorities said, and investigators are considering whether race was a factor because all of the victims were minorities. The first of Monday's attacks killed a 17-year-old boy and wounded a 40-year-old woman, both of them black.
A second explosion rocked Austin, Texas, hours after an earlier blast, which was apparently caused by a package left on a porch, killed a teen and injured a woman. The first blast, reported about 6:44 a.m., killed a male teenager and injured a woman in her 40s.
It was a terror attack that foreshadowed Sept. 1... . FILE - In this Feb. 26, 1993 file photo, firefighters remove a victim on a gurney outside one of the World Trade Center's twin towers in New York, after a car bomb in an underground garage rocked the complex.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently moved its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight , citing in part President Trump's rhetoric on nuclear weapons and minimizing of the science on climate change. According to this panel of experts and their symbolic clock, we are now two minutes from a human made global catastrophe - the closest we have come since the Cold War in 1953.
The second floor overlooking Indonesia's stock exchange collapsed fell out from under dozens of people Monday, burying others beneath slabs of concrete, Reuters reports. At least 30 people were hospitalized after the incident, but as many as 77 people were injured , according to the New York Daily News.
Dec. 23-- FALL RIVER, MA-- Police evacuated residents and blew up a homemade pipe bomb they found outside an apartment building at South Coast Landings on Thursday night. And just after 4 p.m. p.m. on Friday, police and firefighters responded to a report of another suspicious package in the vestibule of the same building.
In this undated photo provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, stand-off explosion detection units, left, are deployed in a corridor at The Metro in Los Angeles. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, wants the Transportation Security Administration to speed up plans to equip transit hubs with the screening devices that can detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel on Dec. 11, 2017.
Ullah is suspec... . This photo from a 2011 drivers license shows Akayed Ullah, the suspect in the explosion near New York's Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says attack on New York City subway system showed in "starkest terms" that the failures of the U.S. immigration system are a national security issue. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says attack on New York City subway system showed in "starkest terms" that the failures of the U.S. immigration system are a national security issue.
Now that holiday shopping has begun across the nation, it's the perfect time to kick off our 12 days of gifts with Yankee Candle Village. Law enforcement officials work following an explosion near New York's Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.
A White House spokeswoman says a pipe bomb explosion in New York City's subway system shows the need for "immigration reform." Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that Congress should work with the president, stressing the need to "protect our borders" and calling for a "merit-based" immigration system.
Trump is returning from a trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Officials say the largest, most destructive wildfire burning in Southern California is expected to grow as it enters its second week.
The round-the-clock international search for a submarine that has been lost in the South Atlantic for nine days is accelerating amid growing fears for its 44 crew members. The Argentine navy says an explosion occurred near the time and place where the sub went missing on Nov. 15. That's led some family members of the crew to give up hope of a rescue.
An apparent explosion occurred near the time and place an Argentine submarine went missing, the country's navy reported yesterday, prompting relatives of the vessel's 44 crew members to burst into tears and some to say they had lost hope of a rescue. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said the search will continue until there is full certainty about the fate of the ARA San Juan, despite the evidence of an explosion and with more than a week having passed since the submarine disappeared.
A sound detected in the search for a missing submarine carrying 44 people is "consistent with an explosion", Argentine officials have said. The abnormal sound was detected in the South Atlantic ocean around the time the Argentine navy submarine sent its last communication last week.