The Justice Department defended Austin’s decision to end the plea deals, filing an unusual appeal with the D.C. Circuit on ...

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Secretary of Defense can scrap plea agreements shielding three Sept. 11 ...

The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the ...

The decision undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution beset by legal and logistical ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sought to avoid the death penalty under the plea deal which a court threw out on Friday ...

THE chief architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks could be sentenced to death after a court tossed out a plea deal that would ...

In a significant turn, a US federal appeals court has rejected the plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 ...

Federal judges ruled 2-1 that Defense Secretary Austin had legal authority to cancel the Guantánamo Bay plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the 9/11 case.

Washington, DC – An appeals court in the United States has validated the decision of former Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to ...

A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea ...

A federal court canceled a plea deal for an alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendants, extending the ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out the plea agreement for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.