Plans of suspected white supremacists were foiled as they were arrested on federal charges of attacking a power grid, with the hopes of destroying the city of Baltimore.
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m Sarah Clendaniel, of Catonsville, Md., and Brandon Russell, of Orlando, Fla., were charged with conspiracy to shoot and destroy several electrical substations in the Baltimore region to "further their extremist goals," federal prosecutors announced.
Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel were arrested last week for planning to use assault rifles to attack five power substations in Maryland in an attempt to cause a "cascading failure" that would leave the area around Baltimore, a majority-Black city, in darkness.
The World Health Organization has warned that the earthquake in Turkey and Syria could have killed as many as 20,000 people. The situation in rebel-held Syria, already grappling with a 12-year civil war, is particularly dire. The surveillance balloon fiasco has poured petrol on already fiery U.S.-China relations. And two U.S. citizens were arrested for their “racist” plans to destroy the power grid in Baltimore. All this and more in today’s PDB.