MATTHEW BARAKAT

October 23, 2021 at 4:35 am

Ayala or Sears: Both would make history in Virginia election

As Election Day approaches in Virginia, one thing is certain: The state will elect its first woman and first woman of color to the lieutenant...

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September 24, 2021 at 2:10 pm

School system pulls 2 books with graphic sex from libraries

A northern Virginia school system said it is removing two books from school libraries, including an illustrated memoir that contains explicit illustrations of sexual encounters...

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September 15, 2021 at 3:03 pm

Court rejects lawsuit against NSA on 'state secrets' grounds

A divided federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’...

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September 10, 2021 at 11:55 am

Judge unimpressed by latest argument in Abu Ghraib case

A judge expressed skepticism about a military contractor's latest legal arguments seeking to toss out a lawsuit filed by inmates who say they were tortured...

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September 9, 2021 at 1:36 pm

Moussaoui trial revisited on the eve of Sept. 11 anniversary

A judge and lawyers in the case against the only person ever convicted in a U.S. court in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks recalled...

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September 7, 2021 at 1:10 pm

CIA veteran: al-Qaida will rebuild within Afghanistan

The CIA man who briefed President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and later President Barack Obama on the intelligence that led to the...

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September 2, 2021 at 5:19 pm

British national pleads guilty to role in Islamic State's torture, beheadings of American hostages VIEW

A British national has admitted in federal court that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and...

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August 31, 2021 at 5:52 pm

Brit charged in terror beheadings scheduled to plead guilty

One of two British nationals charged with joining with the Islamic State group and conspiring to torture and behead American and European hostages in Syria...

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August 31, 2021 at 12:27 pm

Alleged sex assault on school band trip prompts legal split

The full panel of 15 appellate judges in Richmond has narrowly upheld a former Virginia high school student’s appeal to have her lawsuit against the...

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August 23, 2021 at 4:12 am

Park Police officers seek immunity from manslaughter charge

Lawyers for two U.S. Park Police officers told a judge that local prosecutors are not entitled to second-guess the split-second judgments officers made when they...

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