A woman tossed a lit Molotov cocktail into the lobby of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Oakland Park, Florida. But no major injuries were reported, according to a report of the incident sent to administration officials and viewed by The Associated Press.
The woman walked into the office Friday afternoon and hurled a bottle filled with gasoline and a lit fuse. But the fuse disconnected from the bottle and didn't ignite, according to the report. Law enforcement officials believe she intended to cause harm but the incident wasn't related to other incidents where Homeland Security agencies were targeted.
The incident comes amid federal investigators' growing concerns about attacks on immigration agencies during a time of heightened emotion and scrutiny. The issue remains a political powder keg for both Democrats and Republicans as Trump continues to push for major changes on his signature issue and tries to energize his base by delivering on campaign ...

Woman tosses Molotov cocktail into Florida Citizenship office

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A 19-year-old New York City man accused of plotting a knife attack on behalf of the Islamic State group told undercover agents he wanted to record the bloodshed on video in hopes of inspiring others to commit attacks, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Awais Chudhary was arrested Thursday as he tried to pick up a tactical knife, mask and cellphone rigging that he had ordered online as his plot escalated quickly from the planning states to the verge of being carried out, prosecutors said.
The arrest "almost certainly saved lives," Police Commissioner James O'Neill said.
Chudhary, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan and living in Queens, was arraigned Friday and order jailed without bail on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
A message seeking comment was left with a public defender appointed to represent Chudhary, who is due back in court Sept. 13.
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Pak-origin man plotted NYC knife attack in name of Islamic State: US Officials

Try as he might, Jim Mattis can't seem to hide his real feelings about Donald Trump - that the president is leading the world's most powerful nation down a dangerously wrong path.
Mattis, the retired Marine general who resigned as defense secretary last December in a military policy dispute with Trump, says he owes the nation public silence while his former boss remains in office. Yet the comments Mattis is making as he promotes his new book suggest a strong, if implicit, message: Trump's leadership is diminishing America.
From the day he accepted Trump's offer to lead the Pentagon, Mattis knew his views didn't align entirely with those of the president-elect, particularly on what Mattis considers a central pillar of American global power and influence: respect for allies. Trump often denigrates allies, calling them ingrates and freeloaders.
Mattis, who spent more than four decades in the Marines, is a former NATO supreme allied commander. Strengthening alliances was No. 2 on his list 

Though comments veiled, Mattis repudiates former boss Trump

Hurricane Dorian powered toward Florida with increasing fury Friday  but also indications that it might just skirt the U.S. coastline and spare it from the devastating direct hit that forecasters have been fearing for days.
Forecasters warned that no one is out of danger and Dorian can still wallop the state with "extremely dangerous" 140 mph (225 kph) winds and torrential rains late Monday or early Tuesday, with millions of people in the crosshairs along with Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
But some of the more reliable computer models predicted a turn northward that would have Dorian hug the coast, delivering a glancing blow, the National Hurricane Center said.
"We could still be talking about a notable loss but nothing remotely close to if we had a direct hit," said meteorologist Steve Bowen, global head of catastrophe insights for the reinsurance firm Aon.
The faint, encouraging signs came at the end of a day in which Dorian seemed to get scarier .

Hurricane Dorian gains fury but could end up sparing Florida

Saudi King Salman has issued a number of royal decrees, including creating a new ministry for natural resources separate from the energy ministry that oversees the kingdom's vast oil resources.
The Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources was renamed the Ministry of Energy.
A newly created Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources will be headed by Bandar Al-Khorayef, a top executive at Al-Khorayef Group, a Saudi conglomerate that started in agriculture and irrigation in 1957 and has expanded since to include petroleum pumping systems.
Other decrees named Fahd bin Mohammed al-Essa as chief of the royal court and Aqla al-Aqla as deputy chief of the royal court.
The king also established a National Center for Artificial Intelligence and another for data management.
The royal decrees were announced across Saudi media late Friday.

Saudi Arabia creates new ministry of industry and resources

Deputies helped a wailing bear cub reunite with its family after it got stuck inside a trash container outside a motel near Lake Tahoe.
The cub can be heard crying from inside the metal dumpster in video recorded by Placer County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday.
While their mother keeps watch, the bear's sibling climbs on her back to the top of the container but fails to open the heavy lid.
Then the deputies come to the rescue.
With the bear family a few paces away and watching from behind a tree, a deputy opens the container lid with a pole, while a second deputy quickly places a ladder inside the container.
The deputies back away, allowing the cub to climb the ladder and scurry off to rejoin its family.

California officials rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg drew crowds on land Friday after her two-week sail across the Atlantic as the 16-year-old Swede led a protest march in front of the United Nations.
Hundreds of activists, many of them teenagers, surrounded her outside U.N. headquarters, chanting, "Fossil lobbyists have got to go" and, "It's too hot!"  referriang to global warming. Another chant went: "The seas are rising, and so are we!" It was the New York edition of her weekly Fridays For Future, the student school strikes she has inspired in about 100 cities worldwide.
She became a celebrity last year by playing hooky to encourage Swedish politicians to pay attention to what she calls "a war on nature." Next month, she is to speak at the U.N. Climate Change Summit. She'll join world leaders who will present plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The youthful protesters, with a sprinkling of older ones, gathered Friday morning opposite the U.N. under a peace obelisk in Ralph Bunche Park.  When 

Swedish teen climate activist leads protest near UN

A military judge on Friday set a date in early 2021 for the start of the long-stalled war crimes trial of five men being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison on charges of planning and aiding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Air Force Col. W. Shane Cohen set the start date in an order setting motion and evidentiary deadlines in a case that has been bogged down in pretrial litigation. The five defendants were arraigned in May 2012.
In setting the Jan. 11, 2021, start, Cohen noted that the trial at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "will face a host of administrative and logistics challenges." The U.S. has charged the five with war crimes that include terrorism, hijacking and nearly 3,000 counts of murder for their alleged roles planning and providing logistical support to the Sept. 11 plot.
They could get the death penalty if convicted at the military commission, which combines elements of civilian and military law.
The five defendants include Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, a senior al-Qaida 

Trial in 9/11 case at Guantanamo gets early 2021 start date

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's official account has been hacked and sending racist and vulgar tweets to his 4.2 million followers.
Twitter says it is aware of the situation and is investigating.
The person tweeting from Dorsey's account on Friday sent tweets such as "Hitler is innocent" and, using a vulgarity, asked "bald skeleton head," referring to Dorsey, to unsuspend his account.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hacked, sending racist tweets

Firefighters battled a wildfire on Friday that had burned three homes, heavily damaged five more and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people in two Salt Lake City suburbs.
Occupants of more than 400 homes fled but no injuries were reported, according to Lt. Dave Edwards, with the police in the city of Bountiful.
The fire started at about 1 a.m. during a thunderstorm and its cause was under investigation.
Strong winds blowing down from mountains helped spread the rapidly moving fire into residential neighborhoods, said Paul Child, the police chief in the neighboring city of Centerville, where people were also evacuated but later allowed home.
The fire was not contained as of Friday morning and had burned between 150 and 300 acres (60 to 120 hectares), said Kim Osborn, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman.
Officials hoped to start containing the fire before higher temperatures expected later Friday could help the fire spread.

Utah wildfire destroys homes, prompts hundreds to evacuate

Google will pay $150 million to $200 million to settle a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over how it treats information from children on its YouTube video site, according to a published report Friday.
The FTC has reportedly been investigating YouTube for violating a law designed to protect kids online.
Politico said the FTC voted 3-2 along party lines to approve the fine to settle the case. The report said the matter now goes to the Justice Department for review.
Federal law typically requires parental consent before online services can collect information about children under 13.
The FTC's investigation into YouTube reportedly looked into how YouTube collects data to serve personalized ads.
The company says the service is intended for people ages 13 and older, but it also has many popular kids-focused video channels.
The FTC and Google declined to comment.
YouTube has a separate app for kids, and it launched a website version of YouTube Kids this week.
The site asks kids .

Report: YouTube settles FTC complaint for at least USD 150M

Unsure where Hurricane Dorian is going to land over Labor Day weekend, many Florida residents faced a sense of helplessness as they prepared for what President Donald Trump said could be an "absolute monster" of a storm.
"All indications are it's going to hit very hard and it's going to be very big," Trump said in a video he tweeted Thursday evening, comparing Dorian to Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida in 1992.
The National Hurricane Center said the Category 2 storm is expected to strengthen into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 with winds of 130 mph (209 kph) and slam into the US on Monday somewhere between the Florida Keys and southern Georgia  a 500-mile (805-kilometer) stretch that reflected the high degree of uncertainty this far out.
"If it makes landfall as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, that's a big deal," said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy.
"A lot of people are going to be affected. A lot of insurance claims."
With the storm's track 

Florida preps for an 'absolute monster': Hurricane Dorian

The drug company Allergan says its $5 million payments divided between two Ohio counties will remove it from a trial scheduled for October on the toll of opioids there.
Government officials previously announced the settlement with Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) and Summit counties. The Dublin, Ireland-based company made its first public statement about the deal on Friday.
It says Cuyahoga will get USD 3.1 million and Summit USD 1.9 million.
The company said in a statement that settling made more sense than the costs of continued litigation in the first federal trial scheduled in a case in which government entities are suing the drug industry.
The company is a defendant in many of the roughly 2,000 similar claims across the US.
Endo Pharmaceuticals also settled in August with the Ohio counties for USD 10 million.

1 drug company announces details of USD 5M opioid settlement

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday that his son and the country's foreign minister are in the United States to discuss possible US aid amid devastating fires in the Amazon region.
Bolsonaro said he had asked US President Donald Trump for "help" and that Trump had said "he couldn't make a decision without hearing from Brazil."
Son Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is a congressman, and Foreign Minister Ernesto Arajo are in the US for a conversation with Trump, according to the Brazilian leader.
Bolsonaro is considering appointing his son to be ambassador to the US, though the posting would need to be approved by the upper house of the Brazilian congress.
Trump's complimentary remarks about Bolsonaro and his handling of the Amazon fires contrast with criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron and some other European leaders.
A USD 20 million offer of aid from the Group of Seven nations to help fight fires and protect rainforest stalled after Bolsonaro said Macron would have to ...

High-level Brazilian envoys in US to discuss Amazon fires

There's no mistaking it depicts Donald Trump: a large wooden statue of the US president has been erected in Slovenia, the homeland of his wife Melania.
The nearly eight-meter high (26 feet) construction shows Trump with his trademark hair style, blue suit, white shirt and a long red tie.
His right arm  fist clenched  is raised high like that of New York's Statue of Liberty.
When triggered, a mechanism opens a red-painted mouth and shark-like teeth appear.
"Like all populists, the statue has two faces," its creator, Tomaz Schlegl, said.
"One is humane and nice, the other is that of a vampire."
The monument was built on private property among the lush greens and rolling hills of the sleepy village of Sela pri Kamniku, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.
The statue has a temporary permit and has to be removed by Halloween, October 31. Some local villagers, unhappy with its appearance, suggest torching it that day.
"I thought it will be a ...

Donald Trump gets statue in wife's homeland of Slovenia

Sixty-two Pakistani migrants have reached the southern Italian port of Gallipoli, in the Apulia region, after being found on a tiny island by the local coast guard.
The coast guard said Friday that all the migrants, including nine unaccompanied minors, received assistance from the Red Cross and were in good health, despite a long and distressing journey.
It wasn't clear how they had reached the small Sant'Andrea island, about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from Gallipoli.
The migrants have been transferred to a reception center in the coastal city of Otranto.
Hundreds of migrants continue to reach Italy's southern shores in small boats and dinghies, even though rescue ships operated by NGOs in the Mediterranean are banned from docking in Italian ports, due to the hard-line policy of outgoing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.

62 Pakistani migrants reach Italy southern port

The UN atomic watchdog says Iran is still in violation of limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers.
In a confidential quarterly report distributed to member states and seen by The Associated Press, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that Iran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium still exceeds the amount allowed by the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
It said Iran continues to enrich uranium to 4.5 per cent, above the 3.67 per cent allowed.
The violations were announced by Iran, and confirmed by the IAEA last month, and are meant to put pressure on the signatories to the JCPOA to provide new economic incentives to help offset new tough American sanctions.
The IAEA says Iran has continued to permit its inspectors to monitor its nuclear facilities.

UN atomic watchdog: Iran still in violation of nuclear deal

Syrian government forces will soon begin a unilateral cease-fire in northwestern Idlib province, Russia's military said Friday, as hundreds of protesters were met with tear gas marching toward a border crossing with Turkey demanding that Ankara either open the border for refugees or work on stopping the Syrian army's advance.
The protest and cease-fire announcement came after weeks of a crushing offensive by Syrian troops on the last remaining rebel stronghold, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee, many of whom were already without shelter.
A similar cease-fire at the beginning of the month lasted a few days, after which the government offensive resumed and forces captured the town of Khan Sheikhoun and all rebel-held towns of villages in nearby Hama province.
Syrian troops have been on the offensive since April 30 against rebel-held areas forcing more than half a million people to flee, many of them toward the border with Turkey farther north.
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Woman tosses Molotov cocktail into Florida Citizenship office

Pak-origin man plotted NYC knife attack in name of Islamic State: US Officials

Though comments veiled, Mattis repudiates former boss Trump

Hurricane Dorian gains fury but could end up sparing Florida

Hurricane Dorian gains fury but could end up sparing Florida

Hurricane Dorian gains fury but could end up sparing Florida

Saudi Arabia creates new ministry of industry and resources

Saudi Arabia creates new ministry of industry and resources

California officials rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster

Swedish teen climate activist leads protest near UN

Trial in 9/11 case at Guantanamo gets early 2021 start date

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hacked, sending racist tweets

Utah wildfire destroys homes, prompts hundreds to evacuate

Report: YouTube settles FTC complaint for at least USD 150M

Florida preps for an 'absolute monster': Hurricane Dorian

1 drug company announces details of USD 5M opioid settlement

High-level Brazilian envoys in US to discuss Amazon fires

Donald Trump gets statue in wife's homeland of Slovenia

62 Pakistani migrants reach Italy southern port

UN atomic watchdog: Iran still in violation of nuclear deal