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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a First Amendment challenge to a federal law that bars giving “material support” to terrorist organizations.

Pakistan detained an American armed with a dagger, a pistol and night vision goggles for allegedly trying to sneak into Afghanistan to hunt and kill al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden, police said on Tuesday.

A man and woman tried to gain unauthorized access to MacDill Air Force Base outside Tampa, and weapons were found in their vehicle.

Two New Jersey men were arrested at JFK International Airport in an alleged terrorism plot involving an Islamic group in Somalia, NBC News confirmed.

The death of Sheik Said Masri, the terrorist network's operations chief and a relative of Osama bin Laden, would be a blow to Al Qaeda. U.S. officials say he was targeted in a drone strike.

Al Qaeda's third-ranking leader — a close associate and relative by marriage to Osama bin Laden — is believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, U.S.

Adnan Ahmad, a former Pakistani army major, was detained midmonth on suspicion of having links with Faisal Shahzad, the prime suspect in the midtown Manhattan incident nearly a month ago.

— Pakistani authorities have released a former Pakistani army major arrested in connection with the failed Times Square bombing in New York, saying they had determined he had no links to prime bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad.

Investigators were searching for bodies in a mangled wreck Saturday, a day after two trains crashed and killed at least 98 people in eastern India, officials said.

Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of worshippers from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, holding hostages and battling police, officials and witnesses said. More than 70 people died, and dozens were wounded....

The shock and stress felt by pregnant women after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, may have contributed to an increase in miscarriages of male fetuses in the United States, according to a study released Monday.

One person died when a pipe bomb exploded outside a nightclub in West Virginia early Saturday morning, state police said.