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Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Iraq, which would make the attacks the...

One of seven men charged with plotting to blow up the Sears Tower as part of an Islamic jihad was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared in the prosecution...

Richard Nolte, a Middle East expert whose three-week tenure as U.S. ambassador to Egypt in 1967 ended when the country expelled him during the 1967 Six-Day War, even though he...

Michael E. Shaheen Jr., who spent 22 years as head of the Justice Department's internal investigations office, sometimes issuing rebukes of perceived ethical lapses by the nation's highest officials, died...

President Bush vetoed another children's health bill on Wednesday, effectively killing Democrats' hopes of expanding a popular government program aimed at providing insurance to youngsters in lower- and middle-income families....

For a few brief hours Tuesday, three dozen spectators -- journalists, local politicians and their guards -- gathered at the National Museum of Iraq, their voices echoing through its vast,...

Starting in 2009, every child born in Maine will be eligible for $500 toward college from the fortune of a shoe magnate who died there last month. The benefactor, Harold...

The agency that sets guidelines for federal prison sentences voted unanimously Tuesday to lighten punishments retroactively for some crimes related to crack cocaine, a decision that could eventually affect about...

A 12-car South Korean freight train rumbled across the border with North Korea on Tuesday, opening a regular cargo rail service between the two Koreas for the first time in...

David Shepard, who in his attic invented one of the first machines that could read, and then, to facilitate its interpreting of credit-card receipts, came up with the near-rectilinear font...