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A Cook County, Illinois judge dismissed pleas from a state prosecutor that the habitual criminal who allegedly set a 26-year-old woman on fire during her Chicago commute had been likely to “randomly” attack someone else again if she released him, court records show.

British judge sentenced five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence.

A career criminal out on parole — who allegedly tortured, killed, and burned an elderly couple at their residence in Democrat-controlled New York City — is also accused of making off with their Yankees ball and going on a shopping spree with their credit cards after fleeing the horrific scene.

Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly burned a bible prior to setting off the Palisades fire that took over 6,000 homes and 12 innocent lives. 

Protests in Nepal, dubbed the “Gen Z protest” because so many of the participants are young people, continued to escalate on Tuesday with more reports of vandalism, arson, and fatal shootings by police. Nepal’s Communist government was toppled by the protesters on Tuesday with the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.

A 38-year-old woman from Temple, Texas, was sentenced Thursday for setting a Washington state church on fire in 2023.

Days of “massive” disruption after bottleneck sabotaged twice, with a post-left ultra-anarchists claiming strike against the global economy. 

A lawmaker from a Virginia city was hospitalized after being doused in gasoline and set on fire while at work on Wednesday, according to the Danville Police Department (DPD).

Polish PM Tusk on Tuesday said authorities have detained 32 people suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in acts of sabotage.

A man was charged Sunday over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in an apparent escalation of antisemitic violence in Australia’s second-most populous city.

An arsonist set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue and forced the congregation to flee on Friday, seven months after criminals destroyed a synagogue in the same Australian city with an accelerant-fueled blaze that left a worshipper injured.

An arson attack on a restaurant and supermarket in Estonia this year were ordered by Russian intelligence, an Estonian court said Wednesday.

Police investigating a potential infrastructure sabotage that shut railways in the Netherlands as the landmark NATO Summit kicks off.

Specialist police investigating after ultra-left claimed responsibility for burning dozens of Amazon and telecom company trucks in Berlin.

Independent reports out of China revealed that a Chinese factory workers upset by unpaid wages decided to set fire to a textile plant in Sichuan last week.

A top Kremlin official on Monday scoffed at a report that Russia could be involved in recent arson attacks on the private home of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a building where he once lived and a car that he had owned.

A reverse keyword search warrant served to Google helped Denver police identify three teens responsible for an arson attack that killed five members of a family in 2020.

A massive power outage in France on Saturday that hit the Cannes Film Festival is being investigated as possible arson.

A second man was charged Tuesday over a series of fires that targeted properties linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.

A second suspect was arrested Saturday on arson charges in connection with a series of fires targeting property linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.

Ukrainian national arrested over three suspected arson attacks involving properties connected to the Prime Minister has appeared in court.

A man has been arrested in relation to suspected arson attacks on two residential buildings and a vehicle linked to Sir Keir Starmer.

British police on Monday were investigating an overnight fire that damaged door of Prime Minister Keir Starmer´s house in north London.

A massive fire that destroyed a large shopping center in Warsaw last year was the result of arson ordered by Russian intelligence services, Polish officials said Sunday on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the blaze.

The suspect behind an arson attack on the headquarters building of the New Mexico Republican Party and the firebombing of a New Mexico Tesla dealership has been revealed to be an Antifa supporter.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Dauphin County, PA District Attorney Fran Chardo (R) said that the alleged arsonist who attempted to attack Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) had a “focus on Palestine and the

Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed on Monday that an arrest has been made in connection to a firebombing of a New Mexico Tesla dealership and a subsequent attack on the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters.

An illegal alien who was sentenced last year for setting fire to an Alabama church in 2021 is now accused of escaping federal prison.

The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) revealed they had arrested a man who is suspected of allegedly setting fire to Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence in Harrisburg.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) revealed on Sunday that an arsonist had “set fire” to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg, adding that his family had been evacuated from the residence.

A group of pro-Palestinian radicals have claimed credit for a fire that consumed a McDonald’s restaurant building in France this week.

The headquarters for the Republican Party of New Mexico was targeted Sunday in what is being called “a deliberate act of arson,” leaving the entryway to the building destroyed.

South Carolina police have made an arrest in the case of a firebombing aimed at a Tesla charging station that  ended up  with the suspect setting himself ablaze.

Las Vegas authorities are investigating an incident where several Tesla vehicles were set on fire at a service center in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Simultaneously, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a similar attack at a local dealership.

A 24-year-old man from Fort Collins, Colorado, has been arrested on suspicion of arson and other charges related to a fire at a Tesla dealership in Loveland, following the earlier arrest of a man who claims to be a woman in the case.