Up to a dozen others may be involved in the alleged bomb plot, officials say. Police nationwide were told Tuesday to look out for suspicious activity at subway stations and stadiums.
All US government offices in the country were ordered closed on Tuesday after authorities received 'credible,' undisclosed information about a terrorist threat.
The Taliban’s expansion into regions of Afghanistan over which they once had little influence comes as the Obama administration is reassessing its military strategy in the nation.
AP - With President Barack Obama presiding over a historic session, the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday committing all nations to work for a nuclear weapons-free world.
AP - Gov. Deval Patrick named former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. to the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat Thursday and said the rushed, temporary appointment was necessary because the issues before Congress were "too important to Massachusetts for us to be one voice short."
A Colorado man arrested in a U.S. terror probe has been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property in the United States, the Justice Department said today. A federal grand jury in New York returned a one-count indictment alleging that between August 1, 2008, and September 21, Najibullah Zazi "knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more of the explosives."
A rare meeting of U.N. Security Council heads of state, led for the first time by a U.S. president, adopted a resolution focused on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons Thursday.
Leaders representing 85 percent of the world's economic output were gathering Thursday in a U.S. city that has reinvented itself, hoping to bolster the global economy.