DENVER — A Colorado man whose son is accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City is scheduled to go to trial in December on a charge of...
AP | BEN FELLER and LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — The leader who prods his critics to put politics aside is doing anything but these days: President Barack Obama is campaigning for hi...
New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...
nypost.com | Chuck Bennett | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
This jihadist wannabe is a "terror" on the road. Yousef al-Khattab is a Jewish-born, Jersey-raised convert to Islam who schleps tourists on his pedica...
Len Levitt | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
The Daily News seems unable physically, emotionally and intellectually to place blame where it belongs when something goes wrong inside the NYPD.
AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
LOS ANGELES — Clay Tepel knew there were risks to setting up a medical marijuana shop: it could lose money, be robbed or be raided by authoritie...
Judy Platt | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books
Readers need to make it clear to their members of Congress and Senators that the privacy of what they read is non-negotiable and that they're entitled to that privacy whether the books they read are borrowed or bought.
Art Agnos | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
When a disaster hits, it is too late to put your best people in charge of planning and preparation. That's not the place for soft political patronage.
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and BRETT BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home
NEW YORK — The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian reputed to be one of the founders of the terrorist network, used a middleman to contact Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi as the 24-year-old man hatched a plot to use homemade backpack bombs, perhaps on the city's mass transit system, the two intelligence officials said.
Intelligence officials declined to discuss the nature of the contact or whether al-Yazid contacted Zazi to offer simple encouragement or help with the bombing plot prosecutors say Zazi was pursuing.
Al-Yazid's contact with Zazi indicates that al-Qaida leadership took an intense interest in what U.S. officials have called one of the most serious terrorism threats crafted on U.S. soil since the 9/11 attacks.
"Zazi working with the al-Qaida core is exceptionally alarming," said Daniel Bynam of the Brookings Institution's Saban Center. "The al-Qaida core is capable of far more effective terrorist attacks than jihadist terrorists acting on their own, and coordination with the core also enables bin Laden to choose the timing to maximize the benefit to his organization."
AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 10.13.2009 | Technology
RALEIGH, N.C. — In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's ...
Diane Dimond | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
For the right price, some who have sworn to protect America are helping illegal aliens enter the country undetected and are allowing millions of dollars in illegal drugs to pass through border checkpoints.
Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
Colorado Springs Police, working with the El Paso County Sherriff's Office and the FBI arrested 15 members of the La Familia street gang, seizing "nea...
Leslie Harris | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
Disturbingly, Obama Administration officials played a significant behind the scene role in opposing stronger civil liberties protections, directly contradicting Obama's positions as a Senator.
AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
DENVER — The father of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City was indicted on a charge of lying to investigato...
The Denver Post | Felisa Cardona | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver
Scott Lee Kimball was charged Tuesday in Boulder County with two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of four people missing since 2003. Kimb...
AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.08.2009 | Technology
LOS ANGELES — Authorities said Wednesday they have arrested 33 people in breaking up a crime ring in the U.S. and Egypt in which an elaborate "p...
The Associated Press | Sara Kugler | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP)-- New York City officials secretly videotaped dozens of firearm purchases they say were illegal at gun shows in states that have not clo...
AP | LOLITA BALDOR and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver
WASHINGTON — An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack in New York after receiving training in Pakistan was in contact with a s...
AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
DENVER — U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importa...
The Denver Post | Howard Pankratz | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver
Funded by a $1.2 million federal grant and using the latest DNA technology, Colorado prosecutors hope to review as many as 5,000 rape, murder and mans...
Jeff Stein | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
The feds cracked Najibullah Zazi without laying a hand on him, according to most news accounts. But some people still wonder if the rough stuff would...
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
The Wall Street Journal | Ashby Jones | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
It's an unconventional job opportunity, to say the least, one with a fairly big downside and a fairly big upside. The bad: it doesn't pay. The good: i...
Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Authorities removed two men from a United Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for suspicious behavior on Mon...
Len Levitt | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
Under the guise of protecting the city, Intel appeared to have disrupted an FBI investigation into perhaps the most serious terrorism threat to New York City since 9/11.
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | Denver