Security camera video shows some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan earlier this week. The surveillance footage was released from the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday. It offers the most complete look yet at the bizarre episode Monday morning outside 26 Federal Plaza. No one was seriously injured. Prosecutors say 43-year-old Anthony Arrabaca confessed to carrying out the attack and has been charged with arson. He was jailed without bail Tuesday.

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A June 1 trial date has been set for Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in New York. The trial date was set on Wednesday during a brief hearing in Manhattan federal court. His lawyer says he plans to contest the charges against his client on sovereign immunity grounds, among others. Defense lawyers have objected to the U.S. military action that snatched Venezuela’s president from power. Maduro was being returned to a Brooklyn jail. Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to charges that they sided with drug dealers in a multidecade scheme to ship large quantities of drugs to the United States.

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A prison van arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, Tuesday, July 21, 2026 where Joshua Kerry is due to appear charged with the murder of MP Ann Widdecombe. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

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Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was sentenced in a U.S. court to life in prison. At his sentencing on Monday, he called for an end to the brand of brutal violence he used for decades to grow the Sinaloa cartel into the world’s largest drug trafficking organization. Zambada’s punishment was guaranteed by his guilty plea last year to drug trafficking charges that carry a mandatory life sentence. His sentencing was the culmination of the U.S. government’s yearslong fight to bring the long-elusive drug lord to justice. He was arrested in 2024 after he said he was kidnapped in Mexico and flown to Texas.

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This image taken from video provided by Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., shows Pamela Smart appearing remotely from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills, N.Y., during a hearing related to her petition for a new trial, Monday, July 20, 2026, in Concord, N.H. (Merrimack County Superior Court via AP)