U.S. Knew of Suspect’s Tie to Radical Cleric
New York Times - 2 minutes agoAuthorities intercepted communications between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and a radical cleric but took no action, officials said.
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Authorities intercepted communications between Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and a radical cleric but took no action, officials said.
A Marine reservist was charged with attacking a Greek Orthodox priest he said he thought was a terrorist.
International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban's most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday.
Preliminary police examinations of white powder sent in letters to four U.N. missions in New York City showed the material was harmless, diplomats from the affected countries said on Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber struck a congested traffic circle outside Peshawar Tuesday, killing at least 26 people -- including several women and children -- and wounding 60 others, police and hospital officials said.
Police say a former student sneaked a disassembled shotgun into an upstate New York middle school, put the gun together in a bathroom and held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot.
Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery as part of a plea bargain.
President Barack Obama says the nation must never forget the 13 men and women who died during a shooting rampage on a U.S. Army post at Fort Hood, Texas.
A former astronaut pleaded guilty Tuesday to attacking a romantic rival after driving 1,000 miles from Houston to Orlando and was sentenced to a year on probation.
A suicide car bomb tore through a crowded shopping street in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 32 people in the third militant attack to strike the nuclear-armed country in as many days.
Afghan police and U.S. soldiers discovered a half-million pounds of the fertilizer that is used in most of Afghanistan’s homemade bombs.
Police surrounded an office building near the governor's mansion on Tuesday after a report of a disturbance initially believed to be a hostage situation. But they said there was no confirmation of hostages taken.
Seton Hall University has suspended a men's basketball player indefinitely after he was charged in a wrong-way crash.
The suspect in last week's deadly shooting spree at Fort Hood urged in 2007 that Muslims in the U.S. Army be allowed to claim "conscientious objector" status as the United States fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
A former astronaut has been sentenced to one-year probation after pleading guilty to attacking a romantic rival.
An independent investigation of the death of a Boston Celtics fan who stopped breathing while in police custody found that officers acted "reasonably" and did not contribute to the man's death, but also concluded that police made mistakes at the arrest scene that led to confusion, officials said Tuesday.