A U.S. official is stating that information that was gathered in the raid of the compound in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was shot and killed indicates that train systems in several U.S. cities were planned targets for al-Qaida attacks, including Chicago. more ›

Yesterday, nearly 1,500 people massed at the Thompson Center to protest the killing of more than 60 people in a church in central Baghdad. more ›

Yemeni officials announced yesterday the arrests of a woman and her mother in connection with Friday's suspected bomb plot against Jewish synagogues and community centers in Chicago. The two women have not been identified, but a defense lawyer who was in contact with the family identified the 22-year-old woman as an engineering student. more ›

More details are slowly trickling out regarding the discovery of possible explosive materials discovered on cargo planes; at least two packages were earmarked for Chicago-area Jewish facilities. more ›

Raja Khan, the cab driver arrested and charged with aiding al-Qaida, has entered a not guilty plea. Khan's attorney says that his client did send money overseas but it wasn't for terrorism purposes as the government alleges. According to ABC 7: more ›

Robert Marshall, who is running for U.S. Senate as a "conservative Democrat," told suburban paper Daily Herald's editorial board today that he thinks the government is making a bigger deal out of al-Qaida than it actually is and that their threat and influence is "grossly exaggerated." Marshall says that al-Qaida is nothing more than a "small ragtag band of pirates" that can be controlled by police action instead of the military. As for al-Qaida's murder of over 3,000 U.S. citizens, Marshall says: more ›