Homeland Security News

Legislation was introduced Tuesday that would send consumers warnings before they download applications developed in countries considered national security risks.

If passed, the bill would mean that users would be alerted about alleged risks of downloading the hugely popular short-form video platform TikTok, which is linked to Chinese company ByteDance.

Users would also be notified if trying to download FaceApp, a product with ties to Russia that saw significant use last summer.

In addition to Russia and China, apps from Venezuela, Syria, Sudan, Iran and North Korea would have warnings attached to them.

Read more: The Hill
 

A man is behind bars after investigators said he opened fire on the FBI building in north Phoenix on Monday afternoon.

According to the FBI, the man shot at the building near Seventh Street and Deer Valley Drive and at an employee who was leaving at around 2 p.m. No one was hurt. The man then left.

Agents say they teamed up with the Phoenix Police Department and arrested him on the southbound side of Interstate 17 near the Durango curve. Investigators didn't say how they caught up with him or how he was stopped.

On Tuesday, FBI officials identified the man as 38-year-old Gabriel Arturo Manzo of Mesa.

Read more: CBS 5 (Arizona)

Spanish police have arrested a former British rapper turned Islamic State extremist, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, one of the most wanted militants in Europe, in a counter-terrorism swoop on Tuesday.

British and other sources confirmed his identity a few hours after the national police agency in Madrid said it had arrested an Egyptian national and two other men in a flat in the southern Spanish city of Almeria.

Originally from Maida Vale in London, Bary was a joint British-Egyptian national but he was stripped of his UK citizenship because of his links to the terror group. Once considered a notorious Isis figure, he had disappeared from view in recent years.

One source said he had been arrested shortly after entering Spain from Algeria, but this could not immediately be confirmed.

Read more: The Guardian

The Nova Scotia RCMP continues to investigate the incidents that began on April 18 in Portapique. The investigation is detailed and complex. The investigative team is focused on learning more about this very tragic situation, including accurate victim information and whether others may have aided the suspect.
 
The following is an account of what we know so far about the incidents on April 18 and 19:
 
On Saturday, April 18, Nova Scotia RCMP members responded to a possible shooting incident at a home in Portapique in Colchester County.
 
When police arrived, members located several casualties inside and outside of a home. They did not, however, locate a suspect. Officers secured the area and began to search for the suspect.
 
Residents of the immediate area were being evacuated by police while the search was ongoing.            

Read more: Halifax Today

Navy officials said Monday that the service has kicked out a sailor who was investigated for allegations that he had been a neo-Nazi recruiter.

David Cole Tarkington was investigated by Naval Criminal Investigative Services following a story by Gizmodo in March that alleged he had been a “prolific Atomwaffen recruiter.”

The story in Gizmodo, a technology and design website, describes a leak of data from a former white supremacist online forum called Iron March that was a gathering and recruiting spot for neo-Nazi groups including Atomwaffen Division, which calls for overthrowing the U.S. government through violence. Gizmodo reported some of this leaked data included messages made by Tarkington under the username “The Yank” between 2013 to 2016, starting when he was about 15 years old.

Read more: Stars And Stripes