NEW: Two notorious political operatives, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, have been charged by the Michigan Attorney General in connection with an alleged orchestration of robocalls which the AG's office says was an attempt to suppress the vote.
They each face 4 felony counts.
If convicted the two could face as many as 7 years in prison.
The Michigan AG alleges the calls were orchestrated by the duo in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois “all of which reported similar robocalls being made to residents in their states who live in urban areas with significant minority populations.”
NBC News: A senior law enforcement official says one of those arrested at Hamilton Hall on Columbia University is James Carlson aka Cody Tarlow who was arrested during a G8 2005 protest in San Francisco for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and is a person of interest for burning an Israeli flag.
That official also says that another one of the people arrested, at the City College of New York, was Amelia Fuller who has been involved in other protests and was -- according to public reports -- fired from the New York Botanical Garden for saying she felt "proud" when asked about the 10/7 attack.
NEW: 19 year old Keith Melvin Moses is being charged with murder by authorities in Orange County, FL in connection with a homicide earlier today and is expected to be charged in the shooting death of a Spectrum News employee as well as other additional charges, says the Sheriff.
Keith Melvin Moses has a criminal history which includes gun charges, aggregated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft, Sheriff John Mina says.
Authorities say in total two Spectrum News employees were shot included the one who is now deceased.
They were covering the homicide that occurred earlier in the day.
NBC News: Sen. Robert Menendez, the powerful democratic chair of the Senate foreign relations committee from New Jersey, is under federal criminal investigation according to two people familiar with the matter and an advisor to the Senator.
@jonathan4ny Menendez advisor Michael Soliman says, "he does not know the scope of the investigation.”
Soliman also says, “as always, should any official inquiries be made, the Senator is available to provide any assistance that is requested of him or his office."
@jonathan4ny News of a subpoena sent during the course of the investigation was first reported by the website Semafor.
NBC News: The FBI has made an arrest in connection with a hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's Hospital.
The charges are expected to be announced at approximately 4pm today.
It is not related to the incident at Northeastern University.
MORE: The FBI says they arrested a woman from Westfield, MA for calling in a threat a bomb threat allegedly saying "you better evacuate everyone you sickos."
She faces up to 5 years in prison for making a false telephonic bomb threat.
Catherine Leavy or Westfield, MA is charged with a single count of making a false telephonic bomb threat which carries up to 5 years in prison if convicted.
She allegedly told the hospital, “you better evacuate everyone you sickos.”
NBC News: At approximately 7:15pm a person at Boston’s Northeastern University sustained hand lacerations and other minor injuries when they attempted to open a Pelican-type case and a minor explosion occurred, multiple law enforcement officials tell @jonathan4ny and myself.
The Boston Police bomb squad is being joined by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in investigating the incident and are trying to determine who is responsible for this and another suspected device found.
Officials say a note was found, though there are few other details.
There are a lot of people speculating motive and the reason why the location was picked and like the Boston Marathon bombing a lot of this speculation turns out to be inaccurate.
The investigation is in its early stages and nothing points to a lot of the motives suggested below