(New York Times) Heather Murphy - Federal prosecutors said Monday they had filed a criminal charge against Rondell Henry, 28, who planned to run down pedestrians on the National Harbor waterfront along the Potomac River near Washington in an attack inspired by ISIS. Henry stole a U-Haul van from a parking garage in Alexandria, Va., on March 26 and drove to the National Harbor in Maryland the next day. According to prosecutors, Henry sought an ideal spot to mimic a 2016 Bastille Day attack in Nice, France, in which a truck barreled through a crowd of spectators, killing more than 80.
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