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Suspect Faces Terror Charge over New York Subway Shooting

Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
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Suspect Faces Terror Charge over New York Subway Shooting

Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Frank James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting walks outside a police precinct in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

A 62-year-old man accused of shooting 10 people and setting off smoke bombs on the New York subway was taken into custody Wednesday and faces a federal terror charge.

Frank James -- who is suspected of detonating two smoke canisters on the train as it pulled into a Brooklyn station, before firing into the crowd -- was stopped by officers on a Manhattan street and arrested without incident.

"My fellow New Yorkers: we got him," Mayor Eric Adams told a news conference.

"There was nowhere left for him to run," added New York Police Department commissioner Keechant Sewell, whose officers made the arrest acting on a tip.

Announcing the charges against James, US District Attorney Breon Peace said he could face a life sentence if convicted of violating a federal prohibition on "terrorist and other violent attacks against mass transportation systems."

Michael J. Driscoll, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York office, also characterized the shooting as "a terrorist attack on mass transit."

No one was killed in Tuesday's attack, which left 13 others injured in the scramble to get out of the station, or by smoke inhalation.

James has nine prior arrests in New York, from 1992 to 1998, including possession of burglary tools and a criminal sex act, and was also arrested three times in nearby New Jersey for trespass, larceny and disorderly conduct, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.

The New York Times and New York Post, each citing law enforcement sources, reported that James himself alerted police to his general whereabouts on Wednesday in a call he placed to a tip line from a McDonald's fast-food outlet.

Authorities told reporters they were still investigating what James' motive might have been. One focus of that inquiry, according to an FBI affidavit in the case, was a number of YouTube videos he posted addressing statements to New York City's mayor about homelessness and the subway system.

A YouTube account apparently belonging to James was taken down Wednesday for violating the online video platform's "community guidelines," the company said.

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Trump Says US Will ‘Keep’ Hormuz Strait Control

President Donald Trump talks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP)
President Donald Trump talks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP)
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Trump Says US Will ‘Keep’ Hormuz Strait Control

President Donald Trump talks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP)
President Donald Trump talks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP)

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States is in control of the strategic Strait of Hormuz and will "keep it."

"The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, 'A WALL OF STEEL,' and there is nothing Iran can do about it."

Trump has repeatedly claimed the United States controls the strait, which is vital for the flow of energy and other commodity shipping through the Middle East.

However, Iran says it effectively controls much of the waterway and intends to impose a toll system in response to the US war launched by Trump on February 28.

Late Tuesday, Trump told reporters: "We have total control over the Hormuz Strait right now. They don't have control. We have total control. We own it."

US and Israeli forces have heavily bombed Iran's military and killed a swath of the country's leadership so far in the nearly six-month war, launched initially with goals including forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear power program and regime change.

Iran has resisted with missile attacks on US bases in the region, Israel and targets in Gulf countries.

Its most effective response has been to strike shipping in Hormuz, effectively snarling the trade route, rattling the world economy.

With his political popularity sinking at home ahead of the November midterm congressional elections, Trump has backed off threats to escalate the war in search of a decisive victory.

That leaves the war in a standoff.

However, the Republican says that the United States is prepared to focus on blockading Iranian ports in a strategy that he told Axios was "low-keying."

"We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money," Trump told Axios on Sunday.

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WHO Says Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is on Track to Eclipse the Deadliest One in History

A health worker in protective gear washes her hands at the treatment center in Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP)
A health worker in protective gear washes her hands at the treatment center in Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP)
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WHO Says Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Is on Track to Eclipse the Deadliest One in History

A health worker in protective gear washes her hands at the treatment center in Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP)
A health worker in protective gear washes her hands at the treatment center in Bunia General Hospital in Ituri, eastern Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP)

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo is on track to eclipse the deadliest one in history that killed over 11,000 people out of more than 28,000 cases, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

“At its current pace, it's on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

The outbreak in eastern Congo, considered the fastest-growing in history, has killed over 2,000 people out of more than 4,300 cases.

The current outbreak was declared on May 15, but health authorities now say sequencing showed it began months earlier, in February.

It is unlike most previous Ebola outbreaks because the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments.

Experts say the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to track and manage it in a remote part of eastern Congo facing ongoing conflict, near the borders with South Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda. Most of the new cases and deaths are still being reported in communities outside the reach of health workers.

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Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji Dies Aged 97

China's Prime Minister Rongji Zhu (L) answers questions during a joint press conference with US President Bill Clinton at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 8, 1999.(Photo by JOYCE NALTCHAYAN / AFP)
China's Prime Minister Rongji Zhu (L) answers questions during a joint press conference with US President Bill Clinton at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 8, 1999.(Photo by JOYCE NALTCHAYAN / AFP)
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Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji Dies Aged 97

China's Prime Minister Rongji Zhu (L) answers questions during a joint press conference with US President Bill Clinton at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 8, 1999.(Photo by JOYCE NALTCHAYAN / AFP)
China's Prime Minister Rongji Zhu (L) answers questions during a joint press conference with US President Bill Clinton at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 8, 1999.(Photo by JOYCE NALTCHAYAN / AFP)

Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, whose market reforms helped drive the country's extraordinary economic rise, died Wednesday at the age of 97.

Zhu became premier in 1998 and swiftly lived up to his reputation as a hard-hitting free marketeer.

Among his best-known reforms were a broad program to privatize unprofitable state-owned enterprises, the privatization of urban housing and the promotion of home ownership.

He passed away from illness in Beijing late Wednesday morning "after medical treatment failed to save him", state news agency Xinhua said.

"The life of comrade Zhu Rongji was a life of revolution, a life of struggle, a life of glory," an obituary jointly issued by China's top political bodies said, according to Xinhua.

"It was a life dedicated wholeheartedly to serving the people, one given to the communist cause. His passing is a major loss for the Party and the country."

Reforms under Zhu sparked a boom in real estate and construction, which would soar to become a quarter of China's economy before a crippling debt crisis struck in 2020.

His leadership was credited with helping China avoid the worst of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, bucking a global trend.

And he led negotiations for China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 -- a move seen as consolidating the country's transformation from an isolated economy under Mao Zedong to the marketplace of the world.

- 'Outstanding leader' -

Zhu was "an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a long-tested and loyal communist fighter... (and) an outstanding leader of the Party and the state", his obituary said.

But Zhu's brand of market reformism, which lifted millions out of poverty but unleashed inequality, fell out of vogue with the ascent of Xi Jinping in 2012.

Xi has condemned runaway capitalism and sought to move China onto a more balanced development path, as well as cracking down on excessive displays of wealth and private firms seen as monopolistic.

"We must turn our grief into strength, learn from (Zhu's) revolutionary spirit, noble character and fine conduct, and rally even more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core," Zhu's obituary read.

The news of his death quickly shot to top trending on social media platform Weibo, with the topic gaining more than 190 million views just hours after it was announced.

"The people's good premier, go in peace," read one comment under the news on Weibo with more than 17,000 likes.

Others left candle emojis in remembrance.