ACTOR and political activist Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, died on Sunday at the age of 62.

A police officer assigned to work undercover after the September 11 attacks has surfaced as a surprise witness at the trial of a Pakistani immigrant accused of plotting to blow up a Manhattan tube station.

The FBI has thousands of pages of records in its files relating to the monitoring of civil rights, environmental and other advocacy groups, the US Justice Department admitted today.