A U.S. Army soldier has been charged by federal authorities with sending instructions for making homemade explosives over social media, while expressing a desire to bomb a major U.S. television network and attack Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.
Jarrett William Smith, 24, who is stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas, was charged with one count of distributing information related to making explosives and weapons of mass destruction, according to the Justice Department on Sept. 23.
