A panel of federal appeals court judges on Friday threw out a plea agreement in a 2-1 decision that would have allowed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in ...

Al Qaeda terrorist attack on this city and this nation occurred nearly two dozen years ago and has long entered the history books, but chapters are still being written about the ...

(CNN) — A federal appeals court determined that former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “indisputably” had the authority to cancel plea agreements made last year with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ...

A federal appeals court tossed out an agreement that would have allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani national accused of spearheading the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, to plead ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out the plea agreement for the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Nearly 25 years after the attacks on America, the federal ...

Politics from The Hill Appeals court tosses 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plea deal by: Miriam Waldvogel, The Hill Posted: Jul 11, 2025 / 02:27 PM CDT Updated: Jul 11, 2025 / 02:27 PM CDT ...

FILE - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan, March 1, 2003.

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.

But then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin repudiated the deal, saying a decision on the death penalty in an attack as grave as Sept. 11 should only be made by the defense secretary.