US soldier pleads guilty in plot to attack Chicago base

A US soldier pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with his cousin to attack a suburban Chicago military base with the aim of killing over 100 people, prosecutors said. Hasan Edmonds, 23, was a soldier in the US Army National Guard when he began communicating online in January with an FBI agent pretending to be an Islamic State fighter in Libya. Edmonds admitted to giving the purported militant advice on "how to fight and defeat the US military," the plea agreement said.