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I just got a breaking news notification that New York's Times Square was evacuated about more than half an hour ago. What's going on up there?

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Suspicious package

NYPD official: Suspicious package that prompted Times Square evacuation contained water bottles. Ref. CNN

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Texas man charged with trying to help Al-Qaeda:

According to the two-year FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation, the 29-year-old exchanged emails with two high-profile Al-Qaeda supporters: radical US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi and accused would-be Christmas Day plane bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He faces up to 20 years behind bars if found guilty. Ref. Source 3

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Alaska couple on US terror charge :

A National Weather Service employee and his British-born wife have pleaded guilty to domestic terrorism charges of lying to the FBI about a hit list of possible targets who the couple suspected were enemies of Islam. Ref. Source 8

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Three San Diego residents named in terrorism indictment

Three San Diego residents are charged with providing money to a Somali militia group described by U.S. Authorities as a violent terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday. Ref. Source 4

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Justice Department Prepares for Expansion of Law Prohibiting 'Material Support' for Terrorism
By Michael Deutsch

The U.S. Government is now moving on political groups and activists who are clearly exercising fundamental First Amendment rights in vocally opposing the government's branding of foreign liberation movements as terrorist and support their struggles against U.S. Backed repressive regimes and illegal occupations. Ref. Source 8

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Woman charged with aiding Somali terrorist group

Federal prosecutors in San Diego have charged a woman with providing money and other assistance to the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabaab. Ref. Source 1

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Virtual "bomb factory" found at home, prosecutors say

"This is the largest quantity of this type of explosives found in one location in the history of the United States," a prosecutor said Monday. Ref. Source 8