Travelers are facing mass flight delays today as the result of a computer problem at the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that one of its two systems that process flight plans is down …

The visible security presence for the Democratic convention is pervasive. But undercover agents are also working to contain a potentially greater threat: nuclear terrorism. Bob Orr reports.

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UPDATE: Police say there is “insufficient evidence” to charge three men who were allegedly planning to assassinate Barack Obama.
The men were arrested in Denver, Colorado, in connection with drugs and weapons offences.
Political editor Adam Boulton, …

State health officials say one person is dead and dozens of others are sick with an illness that may be related to E. coli bacteria.
State Health Department spokeswoman Leslea Bennett-Webb says at least 10 people …

The Columbus Division of Fire Bomb Squad was investigating explosive materials and chemicals that were discovered inside a home on Monday afternoon.
Officers from the bomb squad and other agencies were called to the home, located …

Juarez Police Stand Guard Near Border
Law enforcement on this side of the border now confirm that Mexican drug cartels have given their hit men permission to cross into the U.S. to kill their targets. There are …

Israel has begun releasing nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners in what it says is a gesture meant to bolster moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
The first of the men are leaving the prison on the edge of …

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, al-Qaeda has increasingly turned to local cells that run extremely low-cost operations and generate cash through criminal scams, bypassing the global financial dragnet set up by the United States …

Al-Qaeda, long crowded out of the Palestinian territories by more localised armed groups, may be establishing a creeping presence inside Israel itself among its large Arab minority, experts say.

The U.S. military has announced the arrest of an Al Qaeda figure who allegedly planned the 2006 kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll.
A statement Sunday says Salim Abdullah Ashur al-Shujayri was captured during an Aug. …