{"id":74957,"date":"2026-06-16T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/us-justice-department-charges-five-men-over-alleged-plot-to-attack-white-house-ufc-event\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:00:24","slug":"us-justice-department-charges-five-men-over-alleged-plot-to-attack-white-house-ufc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/us-justice-department-charges-five-men-over-alleged-plot-to-attack-white-house-ufc-event\/","title":{"rendered":"US justice department charges five men over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple arrests made in \u2018multi-state operation\u2019 to disrupt alleged plot to kill government officials at Trump birthday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Law enforcement officials disrupted an attempt to attack the Ultimate Fighting Championship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/16\/trump-pressure-ufc-fighter-michelle-obama\">(UFC) cage fighting event<\/a> staged at the White House on Sunday with guns and explosive-laden drones, and multiple people were in custody, federal US authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice charged five men over an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attendees at the \u201cUFC Freedom 250\u201d event on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/16\/white-house-ufc-fight-planned-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple arrests made in \u2018multi-state operation\u2019 to disrupt alleged plot to kill government officials at Trump birthday Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Law enforcement officials disrupted an attempt to attack the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage fighting event staged at the White House on Sunday with guns and explosive-laden drones, and &#8230; <a title=\"US justice department charges five men over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/us-justice-department-charges-five-men-over-alleged-plot-to-attack-white-house-ufc-event\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US justice department charges five men over alleged plot to attack White House UFC event\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}