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Mass shootings are happening with alarming frequency in the United States, and the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind national poll released Tuesday asks Americans if they see gun violence as a greater threat than terrorism.

The Islamic State led a campaign of attacks last year by militant extremist groups on religious freedom in large swaths of the world, the State Department said in a report Wednesday, pointing to increasing threats to religious minorities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East vowed Wednesday to take "appropriate action" if an investigation finds that senior defense officials altered intelligence reports on the Islamic State and other militant groups in Syria to exaggerate progress being made against the terrorist groups.

A New Jersey man has admitted that he conspired with three other men to provide material support to the Islamic State group, according to federal prosecutors.

American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, U.S. intelligence officials told her family in June.

Muslim groups and civil rights activists across the nation Thursday called for greater transparency in a program by President Barack Obama's administration that's aimed at countering homegrown terrorism.

After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the U.S.-led bombing campaign began a year ago, American intelligence agencies have concluded.

FBI Director James Comey says the FBI stopped several potential acts of violence ahead of the July 4 weekend.

The Marine general nominated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. and its coalition partners are making moderate progress in the fight against the Islamic State extremist group but that the strategy should be re-evaluated if efforts to improve governance and build reliable local ground forces stall.

A Washington state man has been indicted on murder and terrorism charges for the 2014 killing of a New Jersey college student.