A Maryland man who authorities say traveled to Somalia and became a fighter for an al-Qaida-linked extremist group has been sentenced in New York to 35 years in prison.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region’s transit police bought about $250 worth of gift cards for someone he ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Peace Corps volunteer, expert in global health and the mother of a 7-year-old boy, Anita Ashok Datar devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said. Datar, of Takoma Park, Maryland, was ...

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Transportation officials in Maryland are conducting an emergency response exercise simulating a terrorist attack on the bus and subway in Baltimore. The Maryland Department of Transportation says the drill will begin Saturday at 9 p.m. and last through Sunday at ...

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A federal judge in Greenbelt has dismissed a lawsuit that accused Bethesda-based Marriott International of a slow response to a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 50 people at a Pakistan hotel seven years ago.

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Interrogations on the high seas leads news summary that includes inmate councils, enduring legal claims from the BP oil spill and a violated gag order.

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A man accused of providing a computer tablet and other support to terrorists overseas and laundering money to disguise his actions pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, and a judge set his bond at $1 million.

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Lawyers for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks say they have new evidence that agents of Saudi Arabia “directly and knowingly” helped the hijackers, including sworn testimony from the so-called 20th hijacker and from three principals of the U.S. government’s two primary probes of the attacks.

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hasn’t appeared in court for more than a year. But prosecutors and a man who was severely injured in the bombings say they want to see him in a courtroom soon.

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A military judge put a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attacks back on the same trial schedule as his four co-defendants Wednesday after hearing arguments about issues that have bogged down the case for months.

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