An active-duty Army soldier at Fort Polk, Louisiana was charged April 28 with federal threats charges after posting audio recordings on Discord of a specific plan to enter a synagogue armed with an AK-pattern rifle and 75-round drum magazine and kill every Jewish worshipper present.

Authorities say they disrupted an alleged antisemitic mass-casualty plot targeting a Houston synagogue, arresting an 18-year-old in North Carolina on conspiracy charges while separate Texas action included a juvenile arrest, prompting precautionary closures and heightened security around local Jewish institutions.

Federal prosecutors escalated the January 6 pipe bomb case by filing a superseding indictment adding WMD and terrorism charges against Brian Cole Jr., who faces potential life imprisonment if convicted on the new counts.

After weeks of unexplained “booms” in a White Plains neighborhood, authorities allege a convicted felon was building, stockpiling, and throwing explosive devices on a residential street, culminating in the recovery of 25+ suspected IEDs and federal charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction.

The FBI's terrorism designation of the West Bloomfield synagogue ramming as Hezbollah-inspired marks the first confirmed instance of domestic violence tied to the ongoing US-Iran conflict. The attack template, a US-based actor radicalized by family casualties in Lebanon, represents a scalable threat as the conflict continues.

NYPD and FBI arrested a JDL 613 Brotherhood member on 27 March 2026 as he assembled firebombs targeting a pro-Palestine activist's New York City home; eight Molotov cocktails were recovered and federal charges filed.