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President Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy ...

The president says an affiliate of the group trained and equipped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He promises to hold U.S. security officials accountable for breakdowns in terrorism screening.

To understand how the suspect in the botched terror attack was able to board a plane, you have to understand how the counterterrorism system that President Obama says failed is supposed to work.

President Obama will receive a report Thursday detailing how some government agencies failed to share or highlight potentially relevant information about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab before he allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, while others were insufficiently...

President Obama said a "mix of human and systemic human failure" allowed a terror suspect to board an airliner in the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt.