10 things you need to know today: April 23, 2013

Canada thwarts a terrorism plot, TSA delays permitting small knives on planes, and more in our roundup of stories that are making news and driving opinion

United Airlines flight attendants picket in front of Tom Bradley International terminal in Los Angeles on April 1 in opposition to the earlier decision to allow small knives on planes.
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1. IRAN DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN THWARTED CANADIAN TERRORIST PLOT

Canadian authorities have arrested two men accused of planning an al Qaeda-supported attack against a passenger train traveling between Canada and the United States, said Rep. Peter King of New York, chairman of the counterterrorism and intelligence subcommittee. The news followed an announcement earlier in the day by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that they had arrested Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jase. The two men are charged with "receiving support from al Qaeda elements in Iran" to carry out an attack and conspiring to murder people on a VIA railway train in the greater Toronto area, Assistant Police Commissioner James Malizia said. On Tuesday, an Iranian official denied any links between the country and the suspects. [BBC, CNN]

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Terri is a freelance writer at TheWeek.com. She's a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and has worked at TIME and Brides. You can follow her on Twitter.