Sept. 11, 2001

The argument, in a pretrial hearing, dealt with the unresolved question of whether a prisoner who completes such a sentence is entitled to release from military detention.

Planners added the national security courtroom for pretrial hearings and to prepare for the possibility of a Sept. 11 trial.

Despite rulings in European courts saying the Baltic country was home to a secret prison, the issue has been shrouded in official secrecy in a nation closely allied with the United States.

Ahmad Al-Halabi was an immigrant who did the most American thing possible: join the military. Then the U.S. government accused him of espionage.

If Col. Matthew S. Fitzgerald meets his goal, the trial would start a quarter century after the terrorist attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors off Yemen.

Inside a new season of “Serial.”

The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.

Risking ostracism by her colleagues, she fought against the use of psychologists in coercive interrogations by the military and the C.I.A.

The judge, Col. Matthew N. McCall, was initially expected to retire in April, a timetable that would have left it to a fifth judge in the case to make key decisions.

In the aftermath of the attacks, interrogators were determined to get Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to discuss Al Qaeda’s future plans, a psychologist testified.