Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden administration are attempting to block the deal to pursue capital punishment.

WASHINGTON—The Defense Department approved a plea bargain with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other Guantanamo detainees accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that ...

The Biden administration succeeded in blocking a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Thursday after a federal court issued an administrative stay of a hearing set for Friday. The alleged 9/11 ...

If the Pentagon were ever to get courts’ leeway to withdraw a pledge not to seek the death penalty, the United States says, ...

A plea hearing to enable alleged 9/11 terror attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to avoid the death penalty will not go forward Friday, after the D.C. Circuit ...

11, 2001 attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Justice Department filed its motion in the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday, asking the court to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a ...

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was set to plead guilty on Friday. The Biden administration succeeded in blocking a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Thursday after a federal court issued an ...