## White supremacists sentenced for plan to attack US electric substations

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Two men were sentenced on Friday for conspiring to attack US electric substations in a plot motivated by white supremacy and intended to sow civil unrest and economic distress, the US Justice Department said.

Cook and Frost each pleaded guilty in February 2022 to one count of conspiring to provide material support to extremists.

Jackson Sawall of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was also charged and pleaded guilty in February 2022 and will be sentenced at a later date, DOJ said.

How did they plan to attack the electric substations?.

Their plan was to attack substations with powerful rifles, which they believed would result in millions of dollars in damages while causing civil unrest, the department said.

Plots against power infrastructure and electric substations have come to light recently in different parts of the country including North Carolina, Washington state and South Carolina.

A planned attack in Ohio was thwarted when police stopped their car in a routine encounter. »

### An Indiana man is dead after a grenade found in a grandfather's belongings exploded

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An Indiana man is dead after a grenade found in a grandfather's belongings exploded.

An Indiana man is dead after a grenade discovered in a grandfather's belongings detonated.

Authorities say anyone who finds a grenade or other explosive ordnance should move away from the device and call 911 immediately. »

### Sanctions threaten Russian aviation safety: Expired components and concealed malfunctions

Authored by english.elpais.com

However, a series of leaks has uncovered the industry’s negligence in ensuring safety.

As a consequence, numerous aircraft operations have been performed involving irregularities that directly affect flight safety.

Notwithstanding the sanctions, Russia is still a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a U.N. agency founded in 1944 for the coordination of safety rules. »

### Take-Two CEO: AI Won’t Be Able to Create Hits, Cites Games Like It as “the Domain of Human Beings”

Authored by mp1st.com

As you know I’m usually a skeptic when others engage in hyperbole, [but] in the case of AI I’m pretty enthusiastic.

While the most recent developments in AI are surprising and exciting to many, they’re exciting to us but not at all surprising.

I wish I could say that the advances in AI will make it easier to create hits, obviously it won’t. »

### Joe Biden expects imminent ‘thaw’ in China relations

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