TERRORISM

FBI director Christopher Wray testified Tuesday that the Israel-Hamas war has raised terrorism threats against the U.S. “to a whole other level.”

The U.S. is working with the foreign partners to shut down the travel routes used by the smuggling network and to identify the people who used it to enter the country, the NSC said.

Plea agreements under consideration may mean that the suspected architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and his fellow defendants never face the death penalty.

For the first time, the NYPD has a woman overseeing intelligence and counterterrorism programs. From overseas terror threats to homegrown violent extremism, the NYPD continues to focus on varying threats, with an added push to use the intelligence division to help everyday crime concerns. Jonathan Dienst spoke one-on-one with Rebecca Weiner about how she plans to stop the next attack.

In a rare and shocking development, an accused foreign Islamic terrorist was found not guilty Friday by a jury in federal court after a trial on charges he conspired with Osama bin Laden to conduct a suicide bombing on Americans in Europe two decades ago, his lawyer said.

A Massachusetts teenager was arrested Thursday on suspicion of running a gift card-reselling scheme to raise money for the terrorist group ISIS, federal prosecutors announced.

A jury at a trial last year heard prosecutors portray Saab as a highly trained terrorist who scoped out landmarks in the U.S., France, Turkey and the Czech Republic.

The extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming 18 others in 2017 received the maximum sentence Wednesday — of 260 years total. Relatives of eight people killed in a Halloween terror attack on a New York City bike path in 2017, as well as those who were hurt, spoke at…

Sayfullo Saipov is spending life in prison after he drove a U-Haul truck down a crowded New York bike path in 2017, Gus Rosendale reports.

Without a unanimous jury decision on the death penalty Monday, Saipov receives an automatic sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for an Islamic extremist who maniacally raced a truck along a popular New York City bike path, killing eight people and maiming others. The decision gives Sayfullo Saipov, 35, an Uzbekistan citizen who lived in New Jersey, an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole…

The jury had to start deliberations over today after one of the jurors was dismissed due to a family emergency, Marc Santia reports.

Deliberations in a rare New York death penalty case had to start over Thursday, less than a day into the discussions, because of a missing juror — whose absence ended up excused because his brother had a heart attack. Jurors already convicted Sayfullo Saipov of killing eight individuals on a Manhattan bike path five years ago in a terrorist attack….

The death penalty phase of the Saipov is on hold due to the absence of a juror. Myles Miller reports.

Jurors will have to agree unanimously that Sayfullo Saipov should be put to death or the 35-year-old former Paterson, New Jersey, resident will spend the rest of his life in a high-security prison

The jury took six hours to find Jose Gonzalez guilty of first-degree murder in the 2017 death of FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo in the Bronx, after he hijacked an ambulance and ran her over. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Emotions ran high Thursday in death penalty proceedings for a man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path, as the man’s father professed both shame and love for his son and the defendant’s uncle shouted “dirty ISIS bastards!” and punched a door as he left the room. Habibulloh Saipov’s testimony in Manhattan federal court...

News 4’s Erica Byfield reports.

A judge barred the general public and media from a courtroom where defense lawyers claim emotional testimony from victims has spoiled the death penalty phase of the trial of a man who admits that he killed eight people on a bike path on behalf of a terrorist group.

Erica Byfield with updates on the high-profile federal case that could result in the death penalty.