The FBI searched multiple properties on Thursday as it widened its investigation into a shooting in Washington on Wednesday, that has left one national guard member dead and another in a critical condition.
The search including a home in Washington state linked to the suspect, Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who officials said was part of a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan before coming to the US in 2021 under a resettlement program.
Agents seized numerous electronic devices from the residence, including mobile phones, laptops, and iPads, and interviewed his relatives, FBI director Kash Patel told a news conference.
National guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died after shooting in Washington DC, Trump announces
Later on Thursday, Donald Trump announced that Sarah Beckstrom, one of the national guard troops shot in Washington DC, had died.
Beckstrom, 20, was one of two members of the national guards shot; the other member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president.
Trump wants all Afghan refugees to be re-examined after DC shooting
Donald Trump has called for his government to re-examine every Afghan immigrant who entered the US during Joe Biden’s administration, after law enforcement officials identified the suspect in the shooting as a man from Afghanistan.
DC suspect had CIA links, authorities confirm
The suspected shooter worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.
The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US.
Venezuela bans six airlines amid US tensions
Venezuela has banned six international airlines, accusing them of “state terrorism” after the carriers suspended flights to the country after a warning from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row
The Danish government has set up a “night watch” in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Night’s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump’s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.
US stops commemorating World Aids Day, reports say
For the first time since 1988, the US government will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, according to reports.
The state department has directed its employees and grant recipients not to use US government funds to mark the event – which falls annually on 1 December – and not to promote the day publicly.
South Africa hits back at Trump move to bar it from G20
Donald Trump has said that South Africa will not be invited to G20 events in the US when it presides over the forum next year, a measure the African nation described as “punitive”.
The US president repeated widely discredited claims that South Africa is “killing white people”, extending a diplomatic row between the countries after the US boycotted the summit in Johannesburg last weekend.
What else happened today:
Donald Trump paid tribute to Fuzzy Zoeller, the two-time major golf champion whose genial public persona was overshadowed by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, after he died aged 74.
Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.
BBC presenters and journalists have been told they cannot quote a line removed from its prestigious annual lecture, in which a Dutch writer accused Donald Trump of being “the most openly corrupt president in American history”.
Catching up? Here’s what happened on 26 November 2025.
