By Vivian Kuo, CNN (CNN) -- A North Carolina teacher is scheduled to appear Friday in federal court after being accused in an alleged plot to behead witnesses who testified against a would-be terrorist. Nevine Aly Elshiekh was arrested with Shkumbi… more »

  MSNBC / By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com Al-Qaida remains a threat, but intense U.S.-led pressure is working and could relegate it and similar organizations to having only "symbolic importance," the nation's intelligence chief said Tuesday. When… more »

Associated Press KITAMAAT VILLAGE, British Columbia (AP) — The latest chapter in Canada's quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast. Here, several hundred people gathered for hearing… more »

ABC NewsBy MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RYM MOMTAZ Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first… more »

The Christian Science Monitor / By Dan Murphy The information warriors at the Pentagon probably can't believe their luck. Iran has spent much of the past month crowing about how it could shut down the Strait of Hormuz -- a choke-point for vast qua… more »