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WASHINGTON — Retribution is in the air.

The federal government is shut down and President Donald Trump’s chomping at the bit, canceling blue-state projects, threatening (more) mass layoffs and diverting funds — and the jobs that come with them — to the red states that propelled him back to the White House.

Save the courts, nothing seems to stand in Trump’s way. ...

NEW YORK — The son of Grammy-winning musician Cyndi Lauper was arrested in connection to a Harlem shooting, the Daily News has learned. Declyn Lauper, 26, was nabbed minutes after the shooting on West 112th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said. A 24-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in stable condition. Lauper was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance. His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Friday. Also arrested in the gunfire w......

PHILADELPHIA — Mütter Museum curator Anna N. Dhody opened a package Tuesday morning that arrived at the museum by mail. Inside was a glass jar containing two preserved fetuses, and a letter from someone claiming to be a retired physician who wanted to make a donation. “I saw the letter and was like, ‘Oh no, no no, I have to make a few calls,’” said Dhody, who promptly called the police. “This is not normal procedure.” The package was addressed to Dhody, but did not have a return address. The letter was scant and included no other details about the sender or the fetuses, Dhody said. Police are ......

NEW YORK — The brazen attack on New York City Police Department officers by a group of migrants outside a Times Square shelter prompted an immediate — and strong — backlash. The attack became a lightning rod for criticism over the already-polarizing migrant crisis in New York City, with calls for the migrants involved to be deported. But the midtown brawl was the latest in a series of violent episodes linked to migrants, many unfolding against a backdrop of increasing frustration and despair. There have been knife fights, stabbings, tussles after NYPD moped confiscations, struggles over coats ......

NEW YORK — Nine people were arrested Friday during protests in and around the Columbia University campus over Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza, police said. A protest that started Friday afternoon was led by the pro-Palestinian group Within Our Lifetime, and drew hundreds of demonstrators, said the Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper. The demonstration gathered on Broadway outside the Morningside Heights campus. Not all the protesters were affiliated with the university. At least one Columbia student was arrested, said Barnard student Maryam Iqbal, 18. “He’s my friend,” Iqbal said of th......

Authorities in Texas are investigating after they say more than 50 people have come forward in what they are calling a funeral scam. “This is a case that absolutely turns my stomach. It turns my stomach because you’re dealing with people at the most vulnerable times of their lives,” Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen said at a Jan. 26 news conference streamed by KPRC. Javian Major and Sandy Broussard have been charged with forgery, according a Facebook post from the constable’s office. “Allegedly, the duo conspired to forge beneficiaries’ signatures, illicitly obtaining life insuran......