officials say afghan security forces have killed a group of taliban insurgent who launched attack over the weekend and left more than two dozen militants dead. the assault was aimed to seize control of kandahar as part of the taliban s annual spring offensive. almost a dozen government buildings were targeted in the fight. officials had barricaded themselves inside a city hotel. new york senator chuck schumer is getting serious about train security, he says, after documents taken from bin laden s compound show al qaeda s plans to attack the united states rail system. schumer wants to apply the same no-fly list restrictions homeland security uses for airlines to amtrak to keep suspected terrorists off our trains? by alerting law enforcement about passengers on the no-fly list, we ve been able to catch and deter terrorists from boarding our planes.