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February 5, 2021

NY Times journalist resigns following 'Caliphate' debacle, cites 'online campaign' of 'public shaming'

New York Times journalist Andy Mills announced on Friday that he has resigned following the controversy surrounding the paper's now-discredited podcast series "Caliphate."

January 30, 2021

Iraq kills ISIS commander, week after Baghdad suicide blasts

Iraqi security forces have killed a senior commander of the Islamic State group, the prime minister said on Thursday, a week after the rare, twin suicide bombing by IS militants killed dozens in Baghdad.

January 25, 2021

Texas wannabe ISIS terrorist pleads guilty to providing materials to brutal group

A 22-year-old Texas man pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support to ISIS, federal prosecutors said.

January 22, 2021

Lloyd Austin: What to know about Biden administration's secretary of defense

Retired four-star U.S. general Lloyd Austin has made history Friday by becoming America's first Black Secretary of Defense.

January 21, 2021

ISIS claims responsibility for twin suicide bombings in Baghdad, at least 32 dead

Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said in what was the first massive bombing in years, harkening back to darker days of rampant militant attacks.

December 24, 2020

NYT star under fire for not disclosing ties to discredited 'Caliphate' series on 'The Daily' podcast

One of The New York Times' star journalists is under fire for not disclosing his ties to the now-discredited podcast series "Caliphate" on his own podcast that tackled the sore subject. 

December 22, 2020

Pulitzer board accepts New York Times’ withdrawal of ‘Caliphate’ as 2019 finalist

The Pulitzer Board announced Tuesday it had accepted the New York Times’ withdrawal of its article and podcast “Caliphate” from 2019 finalists after serious factual inaccuracies prompted an extensive correction of the story.

December 21, 2020

Michael Goodwin: New York Times admits to major blunder – but these errors go uncorrected

The best stories in The New York Times often involve the Gray Lady’s self-flagellation over a doozy of a mistake, and Saturday was one of those days.

December 18, 2020

New York Times admits massive failure to vet false claims made in 'Caliphate' podcast

In what its executive editor is calling an "institutional failing," The New York Times published an extensive correction Friday after acknowledging its 2018 podcast series "Caliphate" heavily relied on a serial fabulist who claimed to have been a member of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization.

December 16, 2020

Islamic State widow convicted in Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks

The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician on Wednesday were convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket.