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The leader of an armed militia that scours the southern border for undocumented migrants had once claimed his group was training to assassinate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, the FBI said. Larry Mitchell Hopkins appeared Monday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, days after a video of the group holding migrants against their will sparked outrage. The 69-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on charges [...]

WARWICK —  Warwick Veterans Middle School has been closed for the day after a note was found that indicated a bomb threat to the school, according to a statement from Warwick Schools Superintendent Philip Thornton.The school was evacuated at around 8:30 a.m., and students who take buses were dismissed to their buses from the field area, according to the superintendent. Remaining students were taken to the Mickey Stevens Sports Complex ice rink, where parents could pick [...]

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a person in connection with suspicious fires at three historic black churches in southern Louisiana, a federal prosecutor said.U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced late Wednesday that the suspect is in state custody, and said federal agents stand shoulder to shoulder with the victims of "these despicable acts." A Thursday news conference at the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office is planned.The first fire torched the St. [...]

When Ecuador's official Twitter account posted a video of President Lenín Moreno at 10:30 a.m. local time in London, rumors of Julian Assange's imminent arrest had been making the rounds for hours. "Ecuador has fulfilled its obligations under the framework of international law," Moreno said, before accusing Assange - who [...]

MIDDLETOWN — A 48-year-old man died after being hit by a vehicle Wednesday night on West Main Road.According to the Middletown police, officers from Middletown and Portsmouth responded to Carmella's Pizzeria at 330 West Main Rd. around 9:30 p.m. They found Robert Ivey lying in the roadway with serious injuries.The driver of the vehicle, identified as 68-year-old Altina Lester, of Newport, struck Ivey while traveling south, the police said.She remained on the scene [...]

About three minutes into reel No. 2, Adolf Hitler appears on the terrace of his mountain chalet in a white double-breasted jacket and black trousers. His shoes are shined, and he is wearing a red arm band with a black swastika. But the swastika is backward, Criss Austin said as she ran the footage in a National Archives film room. After World War II, she said, a piece of original film was mistakenly spliced in backward, resulting in [...]

PROVIDENCE -- Later this month Rhode Island College will have a new chief of its campus police force -- James J. Mendonca, the current police chief in Central Falls.Mendonca will start his new job on April 29, said RIC spokesman John Taraborelli on Thursday. He replaces Fred Ghio, who retired as RIC’s police chief in January.RIC’s police department has a staff of 21, including the chief and deputy chief. Officers don’t carry firearms on campus, said [...]

WARWICK — The Pawtucket man accused of killing a Warwick jogger in 2013 will be held without bail following his arraignment Thursday morning in Kent County Superior Court.The attorney for Michael A. Soares entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf. Soares, charged with first-degree murder, did not object to being held without bail.Soares, 33, is accused of killing John "Jack" Fay, 66, in Warwick City Park. Warwick police have not described a motive in the [...]

In Washington, the U.S. Justice Department accused Assange with conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break into a classified government computer at the Pentagon. The charge was announced after Assange was taken into custody.

LOS ANGELES — In a sweeping expansion of the criminal charges against Michael Avenatti, a federal grand jury has indicted the Los Angeles lawyer on 36 counts of fraud, perjury, failure to pay taxes, embezzlement and other financial crimes.Avenatti stole millions of dollars from five clients and used a tangled web of shell companies and bank accounts to cover up the theft, the Santa Ana grand jury alleged in an indictment that prosecutors will make public Thursday.One of [...]