BY DAVID JOHNSTON AND ERIC SCHMITT
New York Times

WASHINGTON — The arrests last month of two Chicago men accused of planning an attack on a Danish newspaper have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan…

By Katherine Skiba and Richard Simon
Tribune Newspapers

WASHINGTON — An Illinois congressman who opposes the idea of moving terrorism suspects to a prison in his district issued a qualified apology Tuesday after a comment that critics viewed as insulting to Islam.

In…

BY DEANNA BELLANDI
The Associated Press

CHICAGO — As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

The nearly vacant Thomson…

BY TAMMY WEBBER
The Associated Press

CHICAGO — The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.

The maximum-security Thomson Correctional Facility, about 150…

BY DAVID JOHNSTON AND MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who will conduct the inquiry into the brutal interrogations of terror detainees faces formidable legal hurdles and complex political dynamics that make prosecutions far from certain.

“I…

BY TOM RAUM
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration. It’s another…

BY STEVEN ERLANGER
New York Times

BRUSSELS — On his first day on the job, NATO’s new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called Monday for stronger European efforts in Afghanistan so that the United States did not feel alone in the fight against…

BY CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
New York Times

WILLOW SPRING, N.C. — Daniel Boyd was a man of rare conviction for these parts.

Rare because he and his family were Muslims in this quiet rural subdivision where the denominations generally run from Baptist to Presbyterian.…

BY ANDREA FULLER
New York Times

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who as governor of Arizona opposed tough new federal requirements for driver’s licenses, endorsed legislation on Wednesday to replace the 2005 law with a more flexible and less costly…