"Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions.
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January 15, 2015
"U.S. and French intelligence officials are leaning toward an assessment that the Paris terror attacks were inspired by al-Qaida but not directly supervised by the group, a view that would put the violence in a category of homegrown incidents that are extremely difficult to detect and thwart.
January 12, 2015
At least 3.7 million people, including world leaders, marched in anti-terrorism rallies in Paris and elsewhere in France on Sunday, French officials said, calling the massive gathering in the nation's capital the largest in France's history.
January 8, 2015
The terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo newspaper were as brutal as they were efficient. Within minutes, 12 people were dead, 11 more were wounded and the gunmen managed to shoot their way through multiple encounters with police.
January 7, 2015
City Council members are joining the fight to extend the Zadroga Act for ailing 9/11 first responders.
January 6, 2015
It's been more than a decade since the 9/11 report was released, and the leader behind the effort is pushing President Barack Obama to hand over the final 28 pages to the American public.
December 22, 2014
Today is the fourth anniversary of the passage by Congress of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.
December 21, 2014
A new memorial to 9/11 victims is a step closer to completion, following a successful benefit concert that raised $75,000 for the cause.
December 15, 2014
Former President George W. Bush paid an unannounced visit to the 9/11 museum Sunday evening, and spent an hour somberly looking at the exhibits.
December 15, 2014
The U.S. military on Monday canceled a pretrial hearing for the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, an al Qaeda figure prominently mentioned in last week's Senate report on the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation program for terrorism suspects.
December 12, 2014
Kathy Dillaber, who survived the Sept. 1, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon that killed her sister helped hang the first of 184 wreaths placed in memory of those who died there that day.
December 10, 2014
Fourteen years after the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC), a case study in the current issue of Annals of Global Health identifies several elements that have had a critical impact on the evolution of the WTC response and, directly or indirectly, on the health of the WTC-exposed population.
December 9, 2014
The report released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discloses new details about the C.I.A.’s torture practices.
December 9, 2014
The CIA misled former President George W. Bush, other policymakers and the American public about the extent and effectiveness of interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects that amounted to torture under international law, according to a report that Sen. Dianne Feinstein released Tuesday.
December 9, 2014
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, laid flowers Tuesday at one of New York City's most somber sites—the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
December 9, 2014
An exhaustive five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict on a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept.
December 9, 2014
On April 3, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send the Findings and Conclusions and the Executive Summary of its final Study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program to the President for declassification and subsequent public release.
December 8, 2014
With the long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s darkest practices after the September 2001 terrorist attacks — set to be released Tuesday, the Obama administration
November 26, 2014
A sculpture made with material sourced from the wreckage of New York's Twin Towers is to be permanently displayed in London's Olympic Park, the Art Newspaper reports.
November 21, 2014
Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly pulled no punches in his lecture Thursday at Drew University, saying that rising terrorism around the world should be a major concern for Americans — especially people with ties to New York City.
