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SWAT team raids Pitt's 'World War Z' warehouse

SWAT team raids Pitt's 'World War Z' warehouse

Brad Pitt isn't a terrorist — but he's certainly being treated like one. On Monday, a SWAT team raided a Budapest warehouse holding weapons being used in Pitt's upcoming zombie movie "World War Z." "The film is already over budget and over schedule," a source tells Us Weekly. "Brad is furious."

 

Russia raids BP offices

Russia raids BP offices

Russian law enforcement officers raided the Russian offices of oil giant BP, the company said Wednesday, blasting what it called "illegal" interference in BP's work.

 

FBI raids homes in NY, Calif. in hunt for 'Anonymous' hackers

FBI raids homes in NY, Calif. in hunt for 'Anonymous' hackers

The FBI today raided several homes in New York and California as part of an ongoing investigation into recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks allegedly launched by members of the Anonymous hacking group.

 

CIA defends running vaccine program to find bin Laden

U.S. officials on Wednesday defended a tactic used by the CIA to attempt to verify the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden — the covert creation of a vaccine program in Abbottabad, the town in Pakistan where he was later killed in a U.S. raid.

 

Only one of five people killed during bin Laden raid was armed

As the story of the raid continues to unfold, new information from the cache of computers seized from the bin Laden compound emerges.

 

Feds turn up heat on Wall St., raid 3 hedge funds

Federal investigators have turned up the heat on Wall Street, raiding three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading.

 

Raids target notorious L.A. street gang

Raids target notorious L.A. street gang

A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a raid by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.

 

Pakistan police raid U.S.-employed security firm

Pakistani police say they have raided a local security firm that has a contract with the U.S. Embassy.

 

350 Dogs Seized, 30 Arrested in Dogfighting Raids

350 Dogs Seized, 30 Arrested in Dogfighting Raids

As many as 350 dogs were seized and about 30 people arrested during raids in five U.S. states Wednesday that animal welfare groups are calling the largest simultaneous raid of dogfighting operations in America.

 

Giant server seized in raid on file-sharing site

Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official said Saturday.

 

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