Texan Who Sought to Join IS Gets 7 Years

A Texas man who planned to join the militant group Islamic State in Syria was sentenced Friday to almost seven years in prison. Michael Todd Wolfe, 24, who called himself Faruq, was sentenced in U.S. District Court  in Texas' Western District for “attempting to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization.” Wolfe was arrested a year ago in an airport in Houston, Texas, where he was about to board a flight to Toronto, Ontario. He was ticketed from there to...

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