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With the nation on high alert on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, fighter jets were scrambled to escort an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles International Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday, after three passengers refused to come out of a bathroom, according to a report by NBC New York.

MYFOXNY.COM - Shrapnel sprayed across a Fair Lawn, N.J. neighborhood after a loud blast caused by an improvised explosive device.

MYFOXNY.COM - Fox 5 News reported Thursday that one of the financial backers of the Islamic mosque and cultural center project in Lower Manhattan once contributed to a terror group, although the investor says the contribution was made because he thought he was giving money to a harmless charity.

US private employers added a paltry 13,000 jobs in June, compared to a revised gain of 57,000 in May, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Thursday.

'Person of Interest' in Terror Case MYFOXNY.COM - A person of interest in a terrorism investigation who was being followed by the FBI was involved in an accident in College Point, Queens. Sources told Fox 5 News that man who was under FBI surveillance apparently tried to shake a tail and crashed his vehicle on the Whitestone Expressway. The FBI was looking at this man in connection with raids on a Queens mosque last year, sources said. Authorities executed a search warrant in Queens Thursday in connection with that investigation....

A federal customs and border protection official confirms a second passenger from Northwest Flight 253 was handcuffed and searched after a police dog reacted to his baggage, according to the Detroit News. Officials originally denied the incident despite repeated accounts by witnesses who said they saw a man get questioned and led away in handcuffs....

Most Americans have never heard of Anwar al Awlaki, but the radical Muslim cleric who may have inspired a young Nigerian man to try to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has been linked to the alleged perpetrators of the deadliest terror attacks on U.S. soil this decade, from 9/11 to the massacre at Fort Hood....

LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- Three of the "Lackawanna Six" -- men who were convicted after 9/11 of attending al Qaeda training camps -- have apparently entered the government's witness protection program as a reward for testifying at a Guantanamo Bay trial last fall, records show.

Throughout last year’s presidential campaign, Barack Obama lambasted the Bush administration for fighting “the wrong war” in Iraq and ignoring the right one in Afghanistan. Iraq was a “war of choice,” Obama claimed, while Afghanistan was a “war of necessity.” Repeatedly, he claimed that, if elected president, he’d unveil a new “stronger, smarter and comprehensive strategy.”

Like rats deserting a sinking ship, ACORN's many enablers over the years are racing for the exits as the scope of the organization's shenanigans come to light. Even leftist fellow-traveler -- and, until now, stalwart ACORN defender -- Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) is squirming. What took them so long? We've been warning about the group for ages.

Wall Street is not going to play as dominant a role in the economy, president says. WASHINGTON - Wall Street is not going to play as dominant a role in the economy as regulations reduce "some of the massive leveraging and the massive risk-taking that had become so common," President Barack Obama says.

Kiev - Three Ukrainians have been arrested for seeking to sell radioactive material that could have been used by terrorists to make a "dirty bomb", the country's SBU security service said Tuesday…..

The U.S. auto industry may have been sliding down the tubes the last few years, but folks like Rep. Charles Rangel can't be blamed for it. Federal records show the dean of New York's congressional delegation had been shelling out $777 a month from his office account to cruise around in a leased GM Cadillac DeVille, although aides say he recently ditched the ride.

CAIRO (AP) — A bomb exploded Sunday in a crowded Cairo market frequented by tourists, wounding at least 14 people, including foreigners, said police and medical sources.

John McCain's campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003. The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian.

Four well-heeled New York Democrats are under investigation by an Ohio prosecutor for setting up a temporary home in the swing state - where two have already cast their ballots - just so that their votes will be counted there, The Post has learned.