Egyptian President Mahammed Morsi, who with the assistance of Qatar and Turkey has been trying to broker a cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, announced that a cease-fire will be agreed to sometime later today.
Two individuals—one a United States citizen who allegedly provided support to a foreign terrorist organization, the other wanted for his alleged role in the overseas kidnapping of an American—have been added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.
On Friday, one of the seven defendants in the plot to conduct coordinated suicide-bombings in the New York subway system was sentenced for his part in the plot.
Two felons, 26-year-old Andre M. Conerly, and 29-year-old Daunte R. Williams were sentence to lengthy prison terms in Seattle on Friday for conspiracy to deal in firearms as well as being felons in possession of firearms.