Bid to Strip Terrorist's Citizenship May Mark New Trump Way

A boat passes beneath the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk in this aerial photograph taken with a tilt-shift lens above New York, U.S., on Friday, June 19, 2015. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell, with the gauge dropping below its price for the past 50 days, while Treasuries retreated.

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Chicago (AP) -- The Department of Justice has taken the rare step of seeking to strip a convicted terrorist of his U.S. citizenship as he serves the last several years of a 20-year prison sentence for plotting to destroy New York's Brooklyn Bridge.

Some national security experts suggested Tuesday the move might signal a new, tougher line under President Donald Trump.