Two Charged in ‘ISIS-Inspired’ Attack Outside NYC Mayor’s Home

Federal prosecutors charged two men for allegedly bringing improvised explosive devices to a protest outside the mayor’s residence in New York, in what authorities described as an act of “ISIS-inspired” terrorism.

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference on Monday that the devices, which didn’t detonate, could have caused serious injury or death.

“The department has determined that these were improvised explosive devices made to injure, maim or worse,” New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference. Mamdani said the two men, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, are suspected of coming to ...