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9/11 Victims On Verge of Winning $3 Billion More in Aid
Families of 9/11 victims, disgruntled over their exclusion from a 2015 fund for victims of state-sponsored terrorism, stand to reap...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Two HBCU Universities Getting U.S. Grants After Bomb Threats
The Department of Education is giving aid to for two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that received bomb threats this...
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Sep 15, 20221 min read
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Decades After 9/11, Mohammed Still At Guantanamo Awaiting Trial
Hours before dawn on March 1, 2003, the U.S. scored its most thrilling victory against the plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks: the capture...
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Sep 9, 20222 min read
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Ex-Islamic Prison Guard Known As 'Beatle' Gets Life Term For Terror
A member of a brutal group of British Islamic State prison guards known as the Beatles was sentenced to life in prison for being part of...
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Aug 22, 20221 min read
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Retrial Begins For Two Men Accused of Plotting to Kidnap Gov. Whitmer
A retrial starts Tuesday of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her efforts to rein in the...
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Aug 9, 20221 min read
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DOJ Paying $98K To Six Men Held After Sept. 11, 2001 Attacks
The Justice Department settled a decades-old lawsuit on Tuesday filed by men who were rounded up by the government after the Sept. 11,...
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Jul 6, 20222 min read
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KS Woman Who Led Islamic Group Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges
A Kansas-born woman who led an all-female Islamic State battalion and trained others to use assault rifles, grenades and suicide...
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Jun 8, 20222 min read
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House Approves Domestic Terrorism Bill in Response to Buffalo Shooting
The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation on Wednesday to elevate the federal government's efforts to combat the threat...
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May 19, 20222 min read
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Garland Didn't Call Parents 'Terrorists' For Visiting School Board
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) vowed last month to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland. "Why did he go after...
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May 2, 20221 min read
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Islamic State Cell Member Who Killed Americans is Convicted
A member of an Islamic State cell known as "the Beatles" because of their British accents that beheaded U.S. citizens in Iraq and Syria...
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Apr 15, 20222 min read
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Men Who Helped Bomb Minnesota Mosque Get Reduced Sentences
Two Illinois men who helped bomb a Minnesota mosque in 2017 got prison sentences far below the 35-year mandatory minimum that they had...
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Apr 13, 20221 min read
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Jury Clears Two, Deadlocks on Two Others in Whitmer Kidnap Case
A federal jury found two men not guilty and deadlocked on two others in a trial accusing them of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov....
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Apr 11, 20222 min read
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As MI Governor Kidnap Trial Starts, Will Militias Become More Public?
In Michigan, four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Gov. Grechen Whimer go on trial Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Part of a...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
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Court: CIA 'Black Sites' Locations Remain State Secret
The Supreme Court blocked an attempt by lawyers for a Guantánamo Bay detainee to question former CIA contractors about the abusive...
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Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Judge Says Suspects in Whitmer Kidnap Plot Were Not Entrapped
After three Michigan men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lost an argument that they were entrapped, a trial...
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Mar 2, 20222 min read
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Three Men Admit Plotting To Attack Power Grids, Cause Civil Unrest
Three men pled guilty in a plot to attack power grids in the U.S., which they believed could lead to economic and civil unrest and create...
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Feb 24, 20221 min read
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Bomb Threats to Black Colleges Have Deep-Rooted History
From her office in Birmingham, Al., DeJuana Thompson sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist...
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Feb 8, 20221 min read
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Norwegian Mass Killer Loses Attempt To Be Paroled
A Norwegian court ruled Tuesday that far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, must remain in prison. The...
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Feb 1, 20221 min read
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'Big Dan' The Star Witness In Federal Case Against Anti-Whitmer Plotters
In 2020, a group of armed men surveyed the landscape around the vacation cottage of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, considering how to...
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Jan 24, 20222 min read
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Synagogue Assailant Akram Had Troubles With Law, Mental Illness
In Blackburn, in England’s industrial north, Malik Faisal Akram was the guy who was banned from the local courthouse after he threatened...
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Jan 23, 20222 min read
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