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  • Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. (Associated Press)

    Fort Hood suspect still faces possible execution

    The Army psychiatrist charged in the Fort Hood shooting rampage still faces the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation, a judge ruled Wednesday.

  • Myanmar verifying Muslim citizenship

    Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at settling an explosive question at the heart of the biggest crisis the government has faced since beginning its nascent transition to democracy last year.

  • 'Anonymous' targets Israeli websites over Gaza war

    A concerted effort of millions of attempts to cripple Israeli websites during the Gaza conflict has failed, Israel's finance minister said Monday, claiming that the only site that was successfully hacked was back up within minutes.

  • The trial of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, has been delayed a week because the military judge has said he will order the defendant to be shaved forcibly to appear in court and Mr. Hasan has appealed on religious grounds. He was supposed to enter a plea Wednesday. (Associated Press)

    Fort Hood suspect's trial on hold over beard

    For the past two months, the military judge presiding over the high-profile case of the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has said he wanted to avoid disruptions in court. So after Maj. Nidal Hasan showed up for a June pretrial hearing wearing a beard, a violation of Army regulations, Col. Gregory Gross banned him from the courtroom until he shaves.

  • European rabbis fear circumcision row could spread

    A group of Orthodox rabbis warned Wednesday that the ancient Jewish practice of infant male circumcision could face further restrictions in Europe after some hospitals in Austria and Switzerland suspended the procedure by citing a German court ruling that it could amount to criminal bodily harm.

  • ** FILE ** U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan is pictured at the Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas, in April 2010. (AP Photo/Bell County Sheriff's Department)

    Judge considers delay in Fort Hood suspect's trial

  • French President Nicolas Sarkozy has angered Muslims, who make up as much as 10 percent of the population, with statements against immigrants and Islam. A Muslim association is working to mobilize Muslims to vote against him in Sunday's election. (Associated Press)

    'Fed up' French Muslims mobilize to unseat Sarkozy

    France's Muslim community is mobilizing voters to reject President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's election to punish the conservative leader for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam rhetoric.

  • ** FILE ** Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning on Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

    Bomb maker in NYC subway plot testifies

    The full beard he wore at the time of his arrest well over two years ago was gone, replaced by closely cropped hair both on his face and head.

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't blame Jones for Islamists' rampage

    In the years since Sept. 11, 2001, there has been a growing sentiment from Islam that has resulted in a willingness to accept radical Muslim violence as a fact of life. This mentality must stop.

  • American Scene

    A Russian billionaire investor has purchased a lavish, 25,500-square-foot mansion in Silicon Valley for $100 million, thought to be the most ever paid for a single-family home in the United States.

  • Rexhep Uka (left), 70, and his son Behxhet, 48, speak at their home in Mitrovica, Kosovo, about family member Arid Uka, who is suspected of killing two U.S. airmen and wounding two others at Frankfurt Airport in Germany on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

    Frankfurt shooting suspect jailed on murder charges

    The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt Airport has confessed to targeting American military members, a German security official said Thursday as investigators probed a possible act of Islamic terrorism.

  • A tow truck approaches a bus after a gunman fired shots at U.S. troops outside Frankfurt airport in Germany on Wednesday. Two American airmen were killed and two were wounded. A suspect in the killings was taken into custody. (Associated Press)

    Muslim suspected in fatal shooting of 2 U.S. airmen

    A gunman identified as a German-born Muslim killed two American airmen Wednesday and wounded two others, after shooting at a U.S. military bus at the Frankfurt airport, authorities said.

  • Embassy Row

    South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool implied that intolerance among the country's black majority led to his dismissal in 2008 as the premier of the picturesque Western Cape province, when he met U.S. Ambassador Donald Gips in 2009.

  • Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Muslim Advocates annual dinner on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, in Millbrae, Calif. Holder used the speech before the Muslim advocacy group near San Francisco to reiterate his resolve to prosecute hate crimes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    Holder reassures Muslims of DOJ's anti-bias focus

    Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated his resolve to prosecute hate crimes while standing behind the methods used in anti-terrorism cases during a speech Friday night before a Muslim advocacy group near San Francisco.

  • BOOK REVIEW: How soft jihad worms its way here

    Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction." Readers of this book are likely to conclude that the turning point may be much nearer than they thought.

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