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US Teen Pleads Guilty To 2015 Islamic State Plot To Kill Pope

A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to an allegedly Islamic State-inspired plot to kill Pope Francis during his US...

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Extradited Russian Pleads Guilty In US Botnet Fraud Case

A Russian man pleaded guilty in a US federal court on Tuesday to charges he participated in a global computer fraud...

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US Deal With DirecTV Settles California Baseball Case

The US Justice Department on Thursday announced a deal with DirecTV to settle charges that it shared information with...

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China’s ZTE Pleads Guilty To Violating US Sanctions On Iran, N.Korea

Chinese telecom giant ZTE has pleaded guilty in a US court to violating US export controls by selling goods to Iran and...

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US To Charge Malaysia Businessman In 1MDB Scandal

US authorities plan to lodge criminal charges against a businessman suspected to be at the centre of a corruption...

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US Man Held For Sending Flashing Tweet To Epileptic Writer

A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the...

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Man Who ‘sent Flashing Tweet To Epileptic Writer’ Arrested In Maryland

A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the...

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Russia Runs Up Cyber Score Against US With Yahoo, Election Hacks

US charges that Russia's FSB security service was behind the hacking of Yahoo underscored a worrisome run of successes...

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US Charges Two Russian Spies, ‘criminal Hackers’ In Yahoo Attack

Two agents of Russia's FSB spy agency and two "criminal hackers" were indicted Wednesday over a massive cyberattack...

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New Michael Brown Video Raises Questions

New surveillance footage has emerged of the black teenager Michael Brown suggesting he had not in fact robbed a...

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New Trump Travel Ban Faces First Court Challenge

President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on refugees and nationals from six mainly Muslim countries faced a new...

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FBI Chief Comey ‘rejects’ Allegation

FBI director James Comey has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered a wiretap of...

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FBI Chief Comey ‘rejects’ Phone Tap Allegation

FBI director James Comey has rejected President Donald Trump's claim on Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama,...

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Lance Armstrong Fraud Trial Set For November

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's battle against a $100 million lawsuit brought by the US government over whether he...

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Lance Armstrong To Head To Court In US Suit

A judge on Monday cleared the way for the doping-disgraced cycling icon Lance Armstrong to go to court, saying the US...

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Peru Asks Trump To Consider Deporting Ex-President Alejandro Toledo

Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to consider deporting fugitive former...

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Trump Vows To Win Travel Ban Court Fight

President Donald Trump has said he has "no doubt" his administration will win legal challenges to his travel ban. But...

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Peru Ex-Leader Faces Arrest Over $20m Bribe Allegations

A Peruvian court has issued an international warrant for the arrest of ex-President Alejandro Toledo on suspicions of...

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US Justice Department Defends ‘lawful’ Trump Travel Ban

The US justice department has defended President Donald Trump’s travel ban and urged an appeals court to reinstate it...