{"id":157842,"date":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157842\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","slug":"fbi-launches-terrorism-investigation-after-homemade-explosive-device-ignited-outside-of-nyc-mayor-mamdanis-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157842\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Launches Terrorism Investigation After Homemade Explosive Device Ignited Outside of NYC Mayor Mamdani&#8217;s Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two devices thrown outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s residence Saturday contained explosive materials and fragmentation that could have killed and maimed numerous people, the FBI confirmed late Sunday. A federal terrorism investigation is underway and terrorism charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p>Two people from Pennsylvania were arrested outside Gracie Mansion Saturday afternoon after a suspicious device was ignited. It is the home of Mamdani and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters on Saturday that an anti-Islam protest was organized by people associated with Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter and far-right influencer. A group of counter-protesters, numbering more than 100, also gathered, and two young men from Pennsylvania, angered by the anti-Islam protest, brought the homemade bombs to the gathering, intending to cause harm, law enforcement sources told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fbi-investigation-terrorism-explosive-device-new-york-city-mayor-mamdani-gracie-mansion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two devices thrown outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s residence Saturday contained explosive materials and fragmentation that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-157842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}