World & Nation
Federal investigators learned several hours before a provocative cartoon contest in Texas that a man under investigation for extremist activities might show up and alerted local police, but had no indication that he planned to attack the event, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday.
May 7, 2015
When FBI agents realized Elton Simpson had slipped away from his north Phoenix apartment last month, they immediately became concerned.
June 7, 2015
Self-Defense: O.J.
Jan. 1, 1998
Music
Hey, how’s this for a “road picture” buddy team? Sly Stallone and Elton John.
July 12, 1987
The two versions of Nadir Soofi are hard to reconcile.
May 5, 2015
Pamela Geller is a 56-year-old Jewish arch-conservative from New York, a vehement critic of radical Islam who organized a provocative $10,000 cartoon contest in this placid Dallas suburb designed to caricature the prophet Muhammad.
May 4, 2015
A Phoenix man has been charged with supplying guns and training to two men who attacked a provocative cartoon contest that featured mocking depictions of the prophet Muhammad last month in Garland, Texas.
June 16, 2015
Authorities had “absolutely no information” about an imminent threat to the prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, where two gunmen opened fire last week, police said Monday, revealing new information about how officials responded to the May 3 attack.
May 11, 2015
The lead gunman in the shooting in Garland, Texas, was inspired by foreign jihadist groups but the FBI and other federal investigators do “not at this point” believe he was specifically directed to attack people attending the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest there, two top federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
May 6, 2015
One of the gunmen killed Sunday at a Texas event promoting drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammad was an American convert to Islam and a wannabe jihadist who lived in north Phoenix, according to court records and a federal law enforcement official.