Threats

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., wrote to top government officials on Thursday, calling for an investigation into the use of American nonprofits by China to interfere in U.S. elections -- reflecting growing concern that the communist government is seeking to meddle in the November election.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security considers White supremacists and other “domestic violent extremists” as presenting “the most persistent and lethal threat” to the nation.

Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, is leaving his post, the State Department announced Thursday, just as the Trump administration is attempting to rally the international community to extend a soon-to-expire arms embargo on the regime in Tehran.

A Florida man allegedly posted to Facebook that he would blow up a police station and kill police officers, and also purportedly said he would turn the department into "Swiss cheese," according to authorities.

The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on the U.N. Security Council to extend a 13-years-old arms embargo on Iran due to expire in October -- and threatening to take “all legally available options” to extend it if China or Russia vetoes such a move.

A North Texas man has been accused of threatening the lives of Democrats-- including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi-- for their stance on the coronavirus, a report said.

The Trump administration on Friday announced additional sanctions on the Iranian regime, days after Tehran launched ballistic missiles at U.S. targets in Iraq -- as part of an ongoing effort to choke Iran’s economy and end their “destructive foreign policy.”

National Security Adviser John Bolton on Saturday said that there is “no doubt” that recent short-range missile launches by North Korea are in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions -- suggesting that the White House may be looking at putting a sharper edge on their diplomatic relations with dictatorship.

A teen has been arrested in connection with an alleged racist threat that was posted online. The threat caused all public schools in Charlottesville, Va to close for the second day in a row as police investigated. 

Former Florida neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman will serve a year probation after pleading no contest Tuesday to stalking a private investigator associated with a documentary on Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teen he killed in 2012.