US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked a pre-trial agreement reached with men accused plotting the 11 September terror attacks. In a memo on Friday, Mr Austin also said he was revoking the authority of the officer overseeing the court who signed the agreement on Wednesday. The move comes after the deal, which would have spared the alleged attackers the death penalty, was criticised by some families of victims. The memo named five defendants including the alleged ringleader of the plot,...

The United States will deploy additional warships and fighter jets to the Middle East in support of Israel amid rising tensions in the region following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil, according to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on Friday. Haniyeh, Hamas' political bureau chief, was killed in a targeted strike on July 31 in his guesthouse in Iran's capital, Tehran. He was in the city for the swearing in ceremony of newly-elected Iranian President Masoud...

Kamala Harris’s campaign branded Donald Trump “scared” Saturday after he proposed to change the presidential debate schedule ahead of a rally in Georgia where he will try to halt the vice president’s surging momentum in her bid to become America’s first woman president. In an overnight post on his Truth Social app, Trump said he was willing to debate Harris on the conservative Fox News network on September 4, while declining to participate in a previously scheduled debate on ABC. Trump pitched...

Former President Donald Trump on Friday said he would no longer participate in a September debate on ABC, opting instead to accept Fox News’ offer to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4. The former president said the ABC debate was agreed to when President Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee “but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant.” Trump also cited his active defamation lawsuit against ABC and the network’s anchor George Stephanopoulos,...

In a startling reversal of a decision made just 48 hours earlier, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals reached with three accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, including the alleged mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Austin also removed the head of the U.S. military commissions — who on Wednesday had approved the settlement agreements — from the 9/11 case, which has been mired in legal quagmire for two decades and is widely considered...

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