Suspect in custody following Rutgers University stabbing

A suspect is in custody following reports of a stabbing at Rutgers University, New Jersey, this afternoon.

The incident sparked a lockdown of the university’s Business School in New Brunswick while the emergency services raced to the scene.

Just a few moments ago the University issued a brief statement saying that ‘three people, including the suspect, are being treated for injuries” following the incident.

Initial reports said there had been multiple stabbings reported but few details about the incident are immediately available.

Initially the University tweeted an alert to avoid the area following the stabbing.

RU ALERT: Stabbing at Rutgers Business School (New Brunswick). Avoid the area and/or take shelter. 11/04/2016 14:45:32 EDT

— Rutgers University (@RutgersU) November 4, 2016

The incident began at 2.45pm and the lockdown was later lifted around 45 minutes later with the University tweeting that a suspect had been arrested.

RU ALERT: Suspect in custody. Area is safe. Police investigation ongoing. 11/04/2016 15:29:35 EDT

— Rutgers University (@RutgersU) November 4, 2016

Initial reports from the scene say that between three and five people have been injured.

As yet no motive has been established for the attacks and it unclear how seriously hurt the stabbing victims are.

Rutgers is a leading national research university which is this year celebrating its 250th anniversary, having being established in 1766.

It is the eighth oldest higher education institution in the United States.

According to the University website more than 69,000 students and 22,000 faculty and staff learn, work, and serve the public at Rutgers locations across New Jersey and around the world.

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Buildings Collapse as Another Powerful Earthquake Hits Italy

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit central Italy on Sunday, collapsing more buildings in small cities and towns previously shuddered by tremors in the past two months. There were no immediate reports of casualties, though.

It was a stronger quake than one that struck central Italy on Aug. 24, killing close to 300 people. Thousands of aftershocks have been recorded in the weeks since then, including two exceptionally powerful tremors last Wednesday.

Italy’s emergency services said there was severe damage in numerous locations in the central regions of Umbria and Marche on Sunday. Three people were rescued from debris in the town of Ussita. However, there were no reports of casualties, State broadcaster RAI said.

The monks said the ancient Basilica of St. Benedict in the walled town of Norcia was ravaged by the quake. Images on television showed a collapsed church in the town center and also another church with one side reduced to rubble.

Several towns and villages previously thrashed by the 6.2 quake in August had seen further substantial damage, local authorities said.

“This morning’s quake has hit the few things that were left standing. We will have to start from scratch,” Arquata del Tronto deputy mayor Michele Franchi told Rai television.

Most of these places were largely deserted when the quake hit on Sunday morning at around 7.40 a.m. (2:40 a.m. ET) as residents were already evacuated following the August tragedy.

The earthquake was felt as far as Bolzano in the north, close to the boundary with Austria and as far as the Puglia region in the south at the bottom end of the Italian peninsula.

In Rome, transport authorities had to close down the metro system for checks as the quake was also felt strongly in the capital.

Italy one of the most earthquake prone in Europe

Italy rests on two fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active nations in Europe.

The last major earthquake to hit the country before this year hit the central city of L’Aquila in 2009. Casualties reached more than 300 people.

In 1908, an earthquake followed by a tsunami eradicated an estimated 80,000 people in the southern sections of Reggio Calabria and Sicily. This was the most deadly since the start of the 20th century.

 

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Huge blow for Clinton as FBI dramatically reopens ‘secret server’ email probe

Hillary Clinton was dealt a potentially devastating blow to her presidential campaign today when the FBI dramatically re-opened their ‘secret server’ email probe.

With just 11 days to go before America votes for its next president, the news could hardly have come at a worse time.

The Clinton campaign said the decision to revisit the case so close to the election was “extraordinary,” and urged the FBI to provide more details.

This shock development has come after devices belonging to Clinton’s chief aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner were seized.

FBI

The devices in question formed part of an FBI investigation into sex texts that Weiner allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl.

FBI director James Comey told Congress that new emails “that appear to be pertinent to the [Clinton] investigation” have been discovered.

He said that an investigative team is seeking to determine whether classified information was contained in the emails and whether any of them were ‘significant’.

Clinton was apparently totally unaware of this breaking news story as she traveled by air to a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this morning.

The plane she was traveling in had no Internet coverage and she remained silent when reporters, waiting on the tarmac as her plane landed, shouted questions about the re-opened email investigation.

She simply smiled and waved to reporters as she disembarked from the aircraft and got into her Secret Service SUV.

Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, campaigning in Tallahassee, Tennessee, today would only say when asked to comment: “I’ve got to read a little more.”

“Bigger than Watergate” – Trump

President Obama also ignored reporters’ questions about the story as he left the White House to board Marine Force One today.

Republican rival Donald Trump was quick to seize on the news saying it was “bigger than Watergate.”

As he spoke in Manchester, New Hampshire, supporters would be heard chanting “lock her up!”

Trump told the rally: “The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s investigation

Criminal

“And they are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America.

“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. This is bigger than Watergate.”

FBI chief Comey sent the letter to a number of people including  the heads of the of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Judiciary Committees, the House’s Oversight Committee and the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee.

He wrote: “In connection with an unrelated case the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.

Classified

“[T]he FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to access their importance to our investigation.”

In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, Trump’s running mate Mike Pence was cheered as he told a rally: ‘We commend the FBI for having the courage to re-open this case because no-one is above the law.’

Pence later tweeted: ‘We call on the FBI to immediately release all emails pertinent to their investigation. Americans have the right to know before Election Day.’

BREAKING NEWS → The FBI is reopening its investigation into Secretary Hillary Clinton.

My full statement ⇩ http://pic.twitter.com/LHfyg46dWk

— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) October 28, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton had “nobody but herself to blame” and added: “She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information.

Reckless

“This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators.

“I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved.”

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Clinton of a “fundamental lack of judgment and disregard for protecting and handling our nation’s highly classified secrets.”

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FBI Director Tell Congress They are Reviewing New Emails in Clinton Probe

Newsline: FBI Director James Comey sent eight congressional committee chairmen a letter 11 days before the election.

“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation,” Director Comey write the congressmen. “I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”

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Rome’s historic buildings shaken as earthquake hits central Italy

Rome’s historic center has been shaken by a strong earthquake which has struck central Italy.

One resident who lives near St Peter’s Square said she “felt the apartment shaking and the walls cracking”.

It is not yet known if there are any casualties from the earthquake which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale but there are reports of terrified residents fleeing their apartments.

Tremors were felt from Perugia to Rome, and also in the town of L’Aquila which was hit by an earthquake in 2009.

It comes just two months after an earthquake in the same area killed nearly 300 people and destroyed hilltop villages of Amatrice and a number of small towns in the region.

That more powerful quake measured 6.2 on the Richter scale.

Italy’s National Vulcanology Centre said the epicentre of today’s earthquake was close to Macerata, 50 miles south east of Perugia in central Italy and about 80 miles away from Rome.

The quake struck at 7.11pm local time and eyewitnesses reported centuries old buildings shaking in the tremors which lasted for several seconds.

The mayor of Castel Santangelo Sul Nera, close to the quake’s epicentre, said: “We’re without power, waiting for emergency crews.We can’t see anything. It’s tough. Really tough.”

Software developer Arcangelo Vicedomini, who lives outside Rome, tweeted: “Earthquake in Italy, 5.6 Richter, epicenter 66 km south of Perugia. In Nettuno chandeliers are dancing.”

Worried mother Vanda Wilcox tweeted: “Another big earthquake. Epicentre near Perugia, made the house shake hugely here, frightened us enough to get baby up & go out.”

The quake’s intensity was first measured at an intensity of 5.6 but that number was later revised to 5.4 by the US Geological Survey which said it had a ‘relatively shallow’ depth of only seven miles.

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