Australia police: Christmas Day bomb plot foiled, 5 detained
Police in Australia have detained five men suspected of planning a series of Christmas Day attacks using explosives, knives and a gun in the heart of the country’s second-largest city, officials said today.
Son of Boston police captain charged in extremist bomb plot
The son of a Boston police captain has been accused of plotting to detonate pressure-cooker bombs at an unidentified university and to broadcast the killings of students live online, extremist acts aimed at supporting the Islamic State group, authorities said.
U.S. co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene to spark change
For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government.
Islamic State plot in Australia raises questions
The Islamic State plot to carry out random beheadings in Sydney alleged by police is a simple and barbaric scheme that has shaken Australians. But terrorism experts today questioned whether the ruthless movement had the capacity or inclination to sustain a terror campaign so far from the Middle East.
Australian police: Raids thwarted Islamic State beheading plot
Police said they thwarted a plot to carry out beheadings in Australia by supporters of the radical Islamic State group by detaining 15 people and raiding more than a dozen properties across Sydney today.
U.S. sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy
An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger even after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail.
Mom rejects plea that would have helped son
JACKSON — A former University of Alabama basketball player might have avoided prosecution in the kidnapping of a 6-year-old Mississippi girl if his mother had
Ex-soldier pleads not guilty in DEA killing plot
NEW YORK — A former U.S. solder nicknamed Rambo pleaded not guilty Saturday to charges he plotted with phony Colombian drug traffickers to kill a
Two face terror charges after Canada Day bombs found
SURREY, British Columbia — Police in Canada have arrested and charged a man and woman with terrorism for attempting to leave pressure cooker bombs at
Analyst: U.S. man sentenced in North Korea bait for visit
SEOUL, South Korea — A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile
North Korea charges U.S. man in overthrow plot
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges
Bail hearing set for Canada terror plot
TORONTO — Two men face a bail hearing today after their arrest on charges of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with
Mom foils ‘Twilight’ shooter’s plot
A southwest Missouri man who confessed this week to plotting to shoot up a “Twilight” showing and a Walmart store was detained in 2009 after threatening a store clerk, police said Saturday.