Here’s what is on tap for Thursday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET Camera cell phones help folks keep in touch — but they can also help thieves steal your identity. Private investigator and former New York City police officer Bill Stanton explains how you can protect …

KATY, Texas – A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has blown up into a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims. Many neighborhood residents claim …

Oops… I’m going to do it again. I am going to waste valuable web page space on our sad state of cultural affairs in America. But I can’t resist the temptation to weigh in on this new “commando” crisis we are having with the beautiful people of America… BECAUSE I …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jimmie Johnson was “horsing around” on top of a moving golf cart when he fell off and broke his left wrist, his team told The Associated Press on Monday. The version clarifies what happened during the celebrity tournament in Lecanto, Fla., one day after the initial account …

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Red Cross said Thursday that a government official’s report of a second pipeline explosion in a poor Lagos neighborhood was mistaken. Nigerian Red Cross official Ige Oladimeji said once officials got to the site in a northern neighborhood of Nigeria’s largest city, they found no pipeline …

PALM DESERT, Calif. – With the thunder of cannon and the whistle of a bos’n pipe, the U.S. capital honored Gerald R. Ford‘s memory Saturday in funeral ceremonies recalling the touchstones of his life, from combat in the Pacific to a career he cherished in Congress to a presidency he …

NEW YORK – Nishan Kohli has pleaded guilty to providing a former U.N. procurement officer with cash and pricey Manhattan real estate in exchange for help winning more than $65 million in contracts with the world body, a U.S. attorney said Thursday. Sanjaya Bahel peddled his influence as chief of …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rallied Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close, as strong profits from such companies as Bear Stearns Cos. (BSC) boosted optimism about the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 99.26 points, or 0.81 percent, to finish at 12,416.76 — a …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The United States is pouring billions more dollars and fresh platoons of experts into its campaign to “defeat IEDs,” the roadside bombs President Bush describes as threat No. 1 to Iraq’s future. The American military even plans to build special, more defensible highways here, in its frustrating …

JERUSALEM – Israel will determine its border with the West Bank in the absence of negotiations with the Palestinians, and then build a wall and move all settlers to the Israeli side, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published Friday. On Thursday Olmert said Israel will draw …