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Ex-Obama housing chief Julian Castro seen weighing 2020 White House run
Former Obama housing chief Julian Castro says he's taking a step toward a possible White House campaign in 2020 by forming a presidential exploratory committee. The Texas Democrat tells The Associated Press that he will announce a decision Jan. 12. The move Wednesday gives the ...
Personality of U.S. mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc changed radically over the years
Thirteen years ago, mail-bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc traveled across America leading a mixed-race troupe of male exotic dancers — he ran scams and had a temper, but a fellow dancer who is black said he never expressed racism or homophobia. Years later, working as a ...
U.S. mail bomb suspect was cash-strapped ex-stripper devoted to Trump
Focus Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the man who put pipe bombs in small envelopes ...
AP — The pipe bombs mailed to top Democrats this past week offered all sorts of forensic clues to who had sent them. FBI Director Christopher Wray said Cesar Sayoc's fingerprints and possible DNA were collected from two of the 13 devices. Wray said the ...
How the U.S. investigation into a series of package bombs unfolded
A week of mail bombs started with a single suspicious package in a billionaire's mailbox. In the days that followed, at least a dozen more suspected explosive devices were found, all of them targeting high-profile critics of President Donald Trump. On Friday, as still ...
After arrest of Trump supporter, Republicans struggle with fallout of mail bombs
All week long, supporters of President Donald Trump played defense as each day brought new reports of more pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of the president. Some suggested the mailings could be a "false flag" operation aimed at ginning up Democratic enthusiasm. Trump ...
Florida man charged in connection with 14 bombs sent to Trump critics
A man suspected of sending at least 14 bombs to prominent critics of U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to elections next month was arrested Friday in Florida and charged with five federal felonies. Cesar Sayoc, 56, a former stripper and professional wrestler once ...
Investigators in the U.S. search for person who sent mail bombs and try to determine a motive
American investigators have been searching coast to coast for the culprit and motives behind the bizarre mail-bomb plot aimed at critics of the president, analyzing the innards of the crude devices to reveal whether they were intended to detonate or simply to sow fear ...
FBI searches Florida mail center in hunt for sender of package bombs to Trump critics
Federal agents searched a U.S. mail facility near Miami on Thursday night in the race to find who sent 10 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump as leads pointed to Florida as the packages' possible origin. Investigators treated the ...
Design for bombs mailed to Trump critics said came from internet; Florida leads pursued
The investigation into 10 pipe bombs sent to high-profile Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump is focusing on leads in Florida, a federal law enforcement source said on Thursday while another source said investigators believe the devices' design came from the internet. All ...
The two bombs sent to former Vice President Joe Biden and a third to actor Robert De Niro on Thursday were similar to the devices intended for several other high-profile Democrats and critics of U.S. President Donald Trump, authorities said. None of the 10 devices ...
