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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump marked his third 9/11 anniversary as president on Wednesday amid his growing frustration about what he calls the “endless war” in Afghanistan, where al-Qaida conceived the deadly 2001 attacks. It has been 18 years since al-Qaida hijackers commandeered four U.S. commercial airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and not even a month after a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan. New York City’s mayor and police brass have repeatedly […]

  LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of British police embarked on a massive manhunt Friday, racing to find out who placed a homemade bomb on a packed London subway train during the morning rush hour. The explosion — labeled a terrorist attack by police — wounded 22 people and ignited a panicked stampede to safety. Experts […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A van veered onto a promenade and barreled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona on Thursday, swerving back and forth as it mowed down pedestrians and turned a picturesque tourist destination into a bloody killing zone. Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured, 15 of them seriously, in what […]

The FBI arrested three Virginia men who were planning to start a "race war" by bombing Black churches and Jewish synagogues.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram extremists gunned down nearly 100 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeast Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a government official and a self-defense fighter said Thursday. The attack Wednesday night on the town of Kukawa came the day after the Islamic extremist group attacked a village […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two women were arrested Thursday after undercover investigators determined they were trying to build a homemade bomb, prosecutors said. The public was never in danger, authorities said. There is evidence the women looked at Islamic State group propaganda on the Internet, prosecutors say, but authorities don’t believe they had direct contact […]

7:10 p.m. (1610 GMT, 12:10 p.m. EDT) Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery says that more than 70 people have been killed in an attack by Somali-based Islamic extremists on a college in northeast Kenya. Nkaissery said that 79 people were wounded in the attack Thursday and four suspected attackers have been killed. He told reporters […]

Masked gunmen opened fire at a satirical French publication, Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people and injuring 10. Among those killed were several prominent cartoonists, including Stephane…