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NEW YORK — The leader of an Eastern European organized crime gang accused in the failed murder-for-hire plot of Iranian dissident journalist Masih Alinejad has been extradited to the U.S. to face justice, federal officials said Wednesday. Polad Omarov’s arrest means all three suspects accused of participating inthe July 2022 attempt on Alinejad’s life at her Flatbush, Brooklyn, home are now in federal custody. Omarov was located and arrested in the Czech Republic in January 2023 and extradited Wednesday from Prague to the U.S. to await his presentment in Manhattan federal court. The New York D......

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed speculation he’s in Russia for an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We’re in journalism,” he said in a video posted to social media. “Our duty is to inform people.” Carlson was first spotted in Moscow over the weekend attending a performance at the Bolshoi Theater. When asked Monday if an interview with Putin was on his agenda, he told Kremlin-adjacent newspaper Izvestia, “We’ll see.” But the 54-year-old right-wing provocateur made clear Tuesday that was his plan and offered an explanation. “Two years into a war that’s reshaping the......

Passports open the doors of the world. But not all of them are equal. Depending on the country that issues them and various other factors, some are much more powerful than others. And the advantages of being the holder of a powerful passport are countless. To begin with, they allow the holder to easily enter most countries without additional entry requirements such as visas. So, which is the world’s most powerful passport for travel in 2024? According to a well-known index published earlier this month, the Spanish passport is the best that a traveler can have today to travel next year. Travele......

NEW YORK — A string of missteps that included leaving detainees locked in their cells as a smoky fire raged around them were outlined in a city Board of Correction report released Friday about a near-deadly blaze in a Rikers Island jail. One detainee was severely burned and several others suffered serious smoke inhalation in the April 6 fire, which the Board of Correction report confirmed was sparked by a detainee angry over losing his shoes and some other personal possessions during a search by Correction Department Emergency Service officers. The Board of Correction’s findings confirm much o......

NEW YORK — City Hall has taken steps to help migrants leave New York City by offering them free fare to anywhere in the country or world and made life tougher by limiting shelter stays. Wait times to get a bed can stretch as long as a week. Some migrants have had enough. Their city of dreams has become a nightmare. With winter coming, many have reached new lows and levels of desperation and have decided that a one-way ticket out of the Big Apple is their best shot at a brighter future. Disillusioned migrants, preparing to leave the city, told the Daily News outside the St. Brigid reticketing s......

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is planning to ask lawmakers to vote next week to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry aimed at President Biden even though there is scant evidence of any wrongdoing. The right-wing leader Tuesday said the vote is needed to allow investigators to gather more evidence about supposed misdeeds tied to business dealings of presidential son Hunter Biden and other relatives. “The House has no choice if it’s going to follow its constitutional responsibility to formally adopt an impeachment inquiry on the floor so that when the subpoenas are challenged in court,......