Congressional officials confirmed that a letter addressed to Senator Roger Wicker tested positive for ricin, a potentially fatal natural toxin. According to the Associated Press, the envelope was ...

About one million tons of castor beans are processed every year, worldwide. Ricin is part of the waste from the beans when castor oil is made. Sometimes this is called “mash.” Less than a pinpoint can ...

German authorities thwarted an Islamic extremist plot by a Tunisian man who planned to use the toxin ricin for an attack. Federal prosecutors said on Thursday that Sief Allah H., whose last name was ...

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested a doctor with a Chinese MBBS degree and two others for allegedly plotting a major terrorist attack using the highly-lethal poison ricin. The ATS ...

India’s Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested three men, including a foreign-trained doctor, in connection with an alleged ricin terror plot spanning multiple states.

(CNN) — Police in Germany have raided the home of a teenage boy suspected of making and storing ricin, a highly toxic and deadly biological warfare agent. CNN — (CNN) — Police in Germany have raided ...