Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Man charged in missing Va. student case
• Holder: Al-Qaida cell was nearing attack
• 3 Afghan soldiers in U.S. immigration custody
• Secret Service interviewed accused W.H. intruder twice
• After 13 years, Belgian 9/11 victim identified
• House candidate saws neighbor's garage in half: lawsuit
• Ariz. fugitive captured after months on run
• UPS gunman had been fired before attack
• Fire at memorial to slain teen adds to tensions in Ferguson
• Mont. prosecutor seeks 10 years for teacher rapist
• White House vulnerability study in 1990s warned of fence jumpers
• Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’
• Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change
• Somali pirates release U.S.-German hostage
• More insurers to join Obamacare in 2015
• Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown
• Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison
• Obama's Syria war carries risks for him at home and abroad
• U.S. security officials issue bulletin on Syria-based threat
• U.S.: Terror group was nearing attack

Man charged in missing Va. student case Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:46 PM PDT Police have charged 32-year-old Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. with abduction with intent to defile.

Holder: Al-Qaida cell was nearing attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:08 PM PDT AG to Yahoo's Katie Couric: Khorasan is "capable" of being a greater concern than IS.

3 Afghan soldiers in U.S. immigration custody Posted: 23 Sep 2014 01:44 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — Three Afghanistan National Army officers who vanished during training in Massachusetts were placed in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday after being detained on the Canadian border, authorities said.

Secret Service interviewed accused W.H. intruder twice Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:25 PM PDT In both cases, the Secret Service concluded there was no evidence that Omar Gonzalez was a security threat: U.S. official.

After 13 years, Belgian 9/11 victim identified Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:07 PM PDT More than 13 years after the September 11 attacks in New York City, one Belgian victim has finally been identified.

House candidate saws neighbor's garage in half: lawsuit Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:56 AM PDT Neighbor is seeking $40K, including $20K to fix the garage, and a portion of politician's property.

Ariz. fugitive captured after months on run Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:53 PM PDT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A former personal trainer who broke free from an Arizona jail by hoisting himself atop a basketball hoop and pulling apart a security fence is back in custody after months on the run, authorities said Tuesday.

UPS gunman had been fired before attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:40 PM PDT Police: Man who killed 2, himself at an Ala. UPS facility had been fired a day earlier.

Fire at memorial to slain teen adds to tensions in Ferguson Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:48 PM PDT City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, faced heightened tensions on Tuesday after an early morning fire destroyed a makeshift memorial honoring the black teenager killed last month by a white police officer. The memorial for 18-year-old Michael Brown that caught fire was erected in a grassy area alongside the road where Brown died. A larger memorial, which runs down the center lane of the road, was untouched by the fire. Still, neighborhood residents who have been protecting and building on the memorials since Brown was killed Aug. ...

Mont. prosecutor seeks 10 years for teacher rapist Posted: 23 Sep 2014 02:14 PM PDT BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana prosecutor is seeking 10 years in prison for a teacher who raped a 14-year-old student, after the Supreme Court rejected a one-month sentence from an earlier judge whose comments pinned some responsibility on the victim.

White House vulnerability study in 1990s warned of fence jumpers Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:08 AM PDT The man who jumped the White House fence, ran across the North Lawn, up the stairs and through the front door before he was stopped by the Secret Service last week shocked security experts and lawmakers.

Obama: War on Islamic State will ‘take time’ Posted: 23 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT President says fight is not just the U.S.'s alone; Arab coalition played key role.

Obama: No nation has 'free pass' on climate change Posted: 23 Sep 2014 10:48 AM PDT Pres. Obama warns that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it.

Somali pirates release U.S.-German hostage Posted: 23 Sep 2014 09:33 AM PDT Mogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a German-American journalist and writer, Michael Scott Moore, two and a half years after he was kidnapped in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation, officials said.

More insurers to join Obamacare in 2015 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:08 AM PDT The number of insurers offering individual health plans on the Obamacare exchanges will increase about 25 percent in 2015 and that should keep down prices, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Tuesday in a report. More than 7 million people signed up for health insurance through the exchanges in 2014, which were created under President Barack Obama's national healthcare reform law and offer income-based subsidies. Next year, there will be 63 additional issuers in the 44 states for which it has data, the agency said in a report. ...

Sierra Leone: 130 Ebola cases found during lockdown Posted: 23 Sep 2014 11:18 AM PDT Sierra Leone says 130 confirmed cases of Ebola were found during a three-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the disease. Officials are awaiting tests on about 70 more suspected cases.

Bin Laden son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison Posted: 23 Sep 2014 12:33 PM PDT By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A seemingly unrepentant Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in New York following his conviction on terrorism charges. A Manhattan federal jury in March found the Kuwaiti-born 48-year-old guilty of conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to provide material support for terrorists and providing such support, after a trial that offered a rare glimpse of bin Laden in the hours following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. U.S. ...

Obama's Syria war carries risks for him at home and abroad Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:06 PM PDT By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Appearing relaxed enough to crack a joke, U.S. President Barack Obama took to the world stage on Tuesday after launching airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State militants but he is still facing huge political risks at home and abroad. The reason for Obama's good humor? His diplomacy paid off this time, with military contributions from five Arab states. One of his first items of business after arriving in New York for meetings at the United Nations was to personally thank representatives from the five. ...

U.S. security officials issue bulletin on Syria-based threat Posted: 23 Sep 2014 03:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. security agencies issued an intelligence bulletin on Tuesday about threats from Syria-based al Qaeda operatives, a Homeland Security spokeswoman said. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI alerted state, local and federal law enforcement to the latest threats, said to DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron. "Recent intelligence indicated that senior Syria-based AQ operatives were nearing the execution phase for an attack in Europe or the homeland," she said. U.S. ...

U.S.: Terror group was nearing attack Posted: 23 Sep 2014 04:13 PM PDT U.S. bombed cell of al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria of whom few have heard.

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