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Jon Stewart lashes out at Congress over 9/11 victims fund

Comedian Jon Stewart scolded Congress Tuesday for failing to ensure that a victims' compensation fund set up after the 9/11 ...

Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper, killing pilot

A helicopter crashed on the roof of a rain-shrouded midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot and briefly ...

Man sought guns, grenades for Times Square attack, feds say

A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns ...

Bombings in Afghan capital kill 2 people, injure 2 reporters

Four explosions struck the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least two people and wounding 27 others, officials said.

Man pleads not guilty to California terrorist bombing plot

An Army combat veteran charged with plotting to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California has pleaded not guilty ...

Police: Suicide car bomb hits Afghan capital, kills 4

A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy exploded early Friday in an eastern Kabul neighborhood, leaving four Afghan civilians dead ...

New memorial area dedicated at World Trade Center site

Family members of recovery workers who died after digging through smoldering ruins joined city officials Thursday at a ...

Suicide car bomb kills at least 9 in Somalia's capital

Islamic extremists exploded a suicide car bomb near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Wednesday, killing at least ...

Army veteran indicted in California bomb plot against rally

A U.S. grand jury on Wednesday indicted an Army veteran in a plot to plant a bomb at a rally by white supremacists in ...

Anxiety, hope as church schools wait to reopen in Sri Lanka

Catholic officials and parents in Sri Lanka are hopeful that church-run schools will begin to reopen soon for the first time ...

Sri Lanka imposes curfew, blocks social media amid violence

Sri Lanka's government imposed a nationwide curfew Monday and temporarily blocked social media following a flare-up of ...

Suicide bombing outside Pakistan shrine kills 10

A suicide bomber attacked security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, ...

2 arrested after clash in Sri Lanka town hit by Easter blast

Two people were arrested after mobs attacked Muslim-owned shops and vehicles in a Sri Lankan town where a suicide bombing ...

Najibullah Zazi

Would-be NYC bomber gets 10 years in foiled al-Qaida plot

A man who plotted to bomb New York City's subways, then switched sides after his arrest and spent nearly a decade helping the ...

New attacks on Sri Lanka churches planned, cardinal says

Sri Lanka's Catholic cardinal received "foreign information" that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and ...

Abdur Razik

The Latest: Cardinal says more churches could face attacks

The Latest on attacks by an Islamic State-linked group that carried out Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka that killed 257 ...

Masood Azhar

UN adds leader of outlawed Pakistan group to sanctions list

In a major diplomatic win for India, the United Nations added the leader of an outlawed Pakistani militant group to its ...

Mark Steven Domingo

FBI informant helped nab Army veteran accused of bomb plot

When the FBI arrested an Army veteran in a plot to bomb a white supremacist rally in Southern California, it was the work of ...

Man convicted in Chicago bomb plot apologizes at sentencing

A 25-year-old man who sought to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar when he was a teenager apologized during ...

South Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat

Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic ...