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The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington in New York

US staggers into 2025 buffeted by week of attacks and looming political violence

A man sits on the edge of a sidewalk with his head in his hands
A man sits with his head in his hands near a makeshift memorial for the victims of a deadly truck attack in New Orleans on Thursday. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

On New Year’s Eve, a federal prosecutor revealed to a court in Virginia an astonishing discovery. She disclosed in a legal document that last month FBI agents acting on an informant’s tip-off searched a property in Isle of Wight, a county named after the island in the English Channel often described as rustic and quaint.

What they found on the 20-acre farm was anything but pleasant. The agents stumbled upon what the prosecutor said was probably “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history”.

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