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Three people were killed in an apparent series of ramming attacks in Nottingham, England Tuesday morning. The first attack occurred just after 4:00 a.m. on Ilkeston Road, leaving two people dead. Police were later called to scene of a second attack, on Milton Street, which left three people injured. A third fatality was reported on Magdala Road. A 31-year-old male suspect has been apprehended by police on suspicion of murder. “This is an horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people," said Chief Constable Kate Meynell. “We believe these three incidents are all linked and we...

In early June, Lynda Sorenson, 52, had gone back to community college in Tucson in hopes of getting back on the job market. One of her classes was a basic algebra class--and one of her classmates was Jared Loughner, now identified by authorities as the man who killed six people and critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in a shooting rampage Saturday. Sorenson's emails to friends from last summer, provided to the Washington Post, reveal her growing alarm at Loughner's strange and disruptive behavior in class. SNIP From June 14: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Arizona authorities say a second man has been cleared of any involvement in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooting. Pima County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Ogan said Sunday that the man, a suspected accomplice in the shooting Saturday, was not involved.

An Afghan recruit has shot three people dead at a Nato training post - as British soldiers killed in the last rogue attack are flown home. The renegade - thought to be an Afghan army trainer - killed two US civilians and a fellow Afghan soldier during a routine weapons exercise. The suspect was also killed in the incident at Camp Shaheen in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, in Afghanistan, Nato confirmed. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsey, who is in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, said: "Every incident like this drives a wedge between them. This is what the Taliban want...

The White House today released its unclassified review summary of the administration failures surrounding the latest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, the Christmas underwear bomber. Delayed twice reportedly over exactly what should and should not be declassified, President Obama made remarks at the release of information that for all intents and purposes told little or nothing new. At a presser following the release of the report, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano were asked what they found most shocking about the declassified review. “We didn’t know they had actually reached the point...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- CNN's Becky Anderson interviews Peter Herbert, a British human rights lawyer who visited Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe-bomber" in a U.S. jail in 2002. Herbert, who had no role in Reid's defense, was interviewed at his office in London. Here is the full transcript: Anderson: So you traveled to see him? (Watch the interview -- 3:04) ... Q. Well, you talked at length I believe and perhaps with more detail than you might have expected about what had happened that day and indeed why Richard Reid had been involved. When you asked him why young men...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheriazar drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee drove into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, injuring five students and a visiting scholar.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities say died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said. Fazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall. Cheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein,...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man yelling "I'm a victim of terrorism" jumped a White House fence and ran across the North Lawn on Wednesday before being caught by Secret Service officers. The man scaled a fence along Pennsylvania Avenue and ran about halfway across the North Lawn before he was surrounded by uniformed Secret Service officers and led away in handcuffs. "He is in custody," said Charles Bopp, a spokesman for the Secret Service. "He was unarmed at the time. We are conducting an investigation." A photographer for The Associated Press, who witnessed the incident shortly after 5 p.m. EST,...

Sgt. Asan Akbar

Fox listed the traitor who attacked the 101st with grenades as Assan Akbar

Muslim-American soldier detained in Kuwait attack 16 troops injured in grenade assault described by Pentagon as 'inside job'A U.S. soldier being described as a Muslim is now in custody for alleged complicity in the grenade and small-arms attack on members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division encamped in Northern Kuwait, which injured 16 soldiers, 11 seriously. In addition, two Kuwaitis who had served a translators are being held for questioning, according to CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann, who is imbedded with the 101st. Strassmann reported that the grenades were rolled into two commanders' tents. When officers ran from their...