The son of a Boston police captain, described as mentally ill and devoted to the Islamic State, plotted a series of deadly attacks with guns and homemade bombs, including a pressure-cooker explosive modeled on the bombs used at the 2013 Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials said.
Since setting up their band, The Kominas have come under fire from all sides: some punks say they aren’t real punks, while conservatives are critical of their politics. But who decides what punk is anyway? Isn’t the very essence of punk to push boundaries and upset the status quo? According to Richard Marcus, despite feeling…
BOSTON — U.S. officials on Wednesday arrested an Iowa man and charged him with making online threats against a Boston mosque, including threats to shoot and kill Muslims. Federal court papers unsealed on Wednesday charged that Gerald Wayne Ledford, 57, of Clinton, Iowa, made threatening posts on the Facebook page of the Islamic Society of…
Rahimah Rahim, a nurse, had tears in her eyes as she clasped the hand of her eldest son, Ibrahim, formerly a local imam. Behind them stood Usaamah Rahim’s wife, her face shrouded in a black veil. It was the family’s first public appearance since Mr. Rahim, 26, was killed Tuesday by an F.B.I. agent and…
