Overview
- Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged coordinated IED plan in Los Angeles, arresting Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield, and Tina Lai during a Mojave Desert rehearsal captured by aerial surveillance.
- Joint advisories warn that high-profile venues such as Chicago’s Navy Pier and New York’s Times Square are attractive targets, highlighting vehicle-ramming and drone risks while noting no specific, credible plots publicly identified for those events.
- Prosecutors detailed surveillance evidence in a criminal complaint and announced terrorism-related charges, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and related offenses.
- New Orleans officials requested heightened security after the arrest of Micah James Legnon in a separate investigation, with authorities alleging ties to the Turtle Island Liberation Front.
- Several cities scaled back or canceled celebrations, including Paris canceling its Champs-Élysées concert, Tokyo scrapping the Shibuya countdown, and Sydney dropping Bondi Beach fireworks.