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

Just eight weeks ago, the country had heaved a sigh of relied after the presidential election went peaceably

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".