Kareem Ibrahim, 65, was convicted Thursday on five counts of conspiracy for his roll in the 2007 plot to blow up fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Federal prosecutors said the men wanted to kill thousands of people and cripple the American economy by using explosives to blow up the fuel tanks at […]

A commercial passenger jet that was also carrying cargo from Yemen was escorted from the Canadian border to New York City by two military fighter jets, U.S. officials said. The officials said there was no known threat associated with the plane, but it was escorted to John F. Kennedy International Airport as a precaution.