New York has seen seven major terror trials in the past, the most of any city in America. But residents – both ordinary citizens
and elected officials – appear to be split over the decision to try the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks in the city.
But Attorney General Eric Holder also told senators Wednesday that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be
detained indefinitely if acquitted in a New York terror trial.
An Illinois woman is charged with a hate crime for berating a Muslim woman about the Fort Hood shooting and then pulling at
her headscarf. The charge could lead to three years in prison: justice or prosecutorial overkill?
The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Miami school board decision that removed a book about Cuba from
public schools. The book was seen as presenting too cheery a view of life in Cuba.
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Richard Berry stands in a former Sunday School classroom in the basement of Trinity Evangelical Free Church. The room has been turned into a men's homeless shelter.
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