National Security

Republicans in the House have lost a bid to block the transfer of any detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison to the United States.

The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.

The charges against a French physicist detained last week on suspicion of links to al-Qaida are "completely false," his brother said according to a report Tuesday.

A French judicial official says preliminary charges have been filed against a physicist who works at the world's largest atom smasher and is suspected of al-Qaida links.

French police arrest a nuclear physicist on suspicion that he had links to terrorist organizations in Algeria, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Friday.

Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of a man accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City.

An Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terror attack in New York City contacted accomplices there while making a cross-country drive from Denver, officials familiar with the case said.