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The tip-offex to authorities about two U.S.-bound cargo plane bomb parcels came from a penitent al Qaeda member formerly held at Guantanamo Bay, according to British officials cited Monday by

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a North Side rabbi met Sunday in a show of solidarity after packages containing explosives bound for different Jewish houses of worship in Chicago were

Maggie Haberman of Politico reports: A spokesman for House Minority Whip Eric Cantor is denying a report that he told Hasidic leaders in Kiryas Joel that he would himself be

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Civilian Internet applications now offer militant groups access to intelligence that rivals what government spies can get, Israel’s domestic security chief said on Monday. Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, in

Two years after seizing control of the State Senate for the first time in more than four decades, New York Democrats are in grave danger of losing their narrow majority

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