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A 19-year-old is being held by New York City police as the suspect in a machete attack against three police officers New Year's Eve.

Suspect in New Year’s Eve machete attack on police near New York’s Times Square expressed desire in diary to join Taliban, die a martyr, sources say

By John Miller, CNN The 19-year-old being held by New York City police as the suspect in a New Year’s Eve machete attack against three police officers just outside a Times Square security screening zone carried a handwritten diary that expressed his desire to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and die as a martyr, law

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5.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California and ‘felt more violent’ than the previous quake, official says

By Amir Vera, Chuck Johnston and Allison Chinchar, CNN An earthquake struck Northern California Sunday morning for the second time in less than a two-week span, according to the US Geological Survey. The 5.4 magnitude earthquake occurred about 30 miles south of Eureka and was centered about 9 miles southeast of Rio Dell, the USGS

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Man accused of attacking NYPD officers with machete wanted ‘to kill people and carry out jihad,’ prosecutors say

By Mark Morales, CNN Trevor Bickford, the 19-year-old accused of attacking New York Police Department officers with a machete on New Year’s Eve, traveled to the city “in order to kill people and carry out jihad,” prosecutors say. Bickford allegedly went to the Times Square checkpoint just after 10 p.m., authorities have said. At the

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Suspect in the Idaho college student killings plans to waive extradition at Tuesday hearing, attorney says

By Dakin Andone, Elizabeth Wolfe and Jean Casarez, CNN The suspect in the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho college students plans to waive extradition at a hearing this week, his attorney said, to expedite his return to Idaho, where he faces four counts of first-degree murder. Bryan Christopher Kohberger is “shocked a little

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