Charlie Savage Nyt News Service

Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss Mr. Obama's initial January 201...

The Obama administration said on Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. flatly asserted that the defendant in the Times Square bombing attempt was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan.Holder proposed carving out a broad new exce...

Federal air marshals confronted a passenger who had apparently lit a cigarette in an airline lavatory on Wednesday night, leading NORAD to scramble two fighter jets and a phalanx of law enforcement officials to meet the plane, United Flight 663, when it landed at Denver International Airport.

A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied on Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog.

The Obama administration said on Friday that it will prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the White House acknowledged last year that it would miss Mr. Obama's initial January 201...

The Obama administration said on Sunday it would seek a law allowing investigators to interrogate terrorism suspects without informing them of their rights, as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. flatly asserted that the defendant in the Times Square bombing attempt was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan.Holder proposed carving out a broad new exce...

Federal air marshals confronted a passenger who had apparently lit a cigarette in an airline lavatory on Wednesday night, leading NORAD to scramble two fighter jets and a phalanx of law enforcement officials to meet the plane, United Flight 663, when it landed at Denver International Airport.

A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied on Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog.

The Obama administration said on Friday that it will prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks.