FBI Arrests Five in Explosive Drone Plot Targeting White House and UFC Event

The FBI arrested five individuals on June 16 for an alleged coordinated plot using explosive drones and a gate breach to attack the White House and a nearby UFC event; Tycen Proper, 19, of Ohio, faces charges of attempted murder of a federal official.

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Oregon Man Charged with Two Counts of Domestic Terrorism After Arson Campaign Against Power Infrastructure Near Fossil

Ethan Noble Burlingame, 28, faces two domestic terrorism counts in Oregon for targeting power infrastructure near Fossil in an arson campaign spanning June 2 to June 4; an eight-county multi-agency operation involving the FBI recovered him after he surrendered via text message contact with an OSP lieutenant.

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San Diego Mosque Attack Manifesto Points to Nihilistic Extremism and Accelerationist Targeting

The San Diego mosque attack was a hate-driven mass shooting in which two online-radicalized teen gunmen used white supremacist accelerationist ideology, anti-Muslim target selection, livestreamed violence, and a propaganda-focused manifesto to frame the killing of three mosque community members as part of a broader effort to inspire racial and ideological violence.

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