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NEW YORK — The NYPD is investigating disturbing bomb threats emailed to synagogues throughout the city on Christmas Eve Day, though the messages appear to be a hoax, cops said Sunday. Police described the threat as “not credible” but added, “we will continue to deploy resources to houses of worship around the city.” “The NYPD is aware of and actively investigating a number of emails that have been sent to synagogues around the city indicating possible bomb threats. These emails appear to be part of another series of ‘swatting,’ or hoax threats, similar to campaigns that we have seen nationwide......

U.S. officials denied Saturday a report that a deal was reached between Hamas and Israel for the release of an unknown number of hostages held in Gaza — but said efforts to reach such an agreement are ongoing. “We have not reached a deal yet, but we continue to work hard to get to a deal,” National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on X. Watson was responding to a report Saturday evening in The Washington Post saying Israel, the United States and Hamas had agreed to a pause in the Gaza war in return for Hamas’ release of women and children it is holding hostage. The agreement w......

NEW YORK — Reported bombs at separate Jewish sites caused alarm on Saturday and prompted an New York Police Department response as antisemitic incidents sparked by the war in Gaza continue to rise, police said. First, police were called to Holocaust Memorial Park on West End Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, just before 10 a.m. when someone walking through the park found a grenade among the markers dedicated to Jews killed during the Nazi regime. The NYPD Bomb Squad was called and ultimately cleared the scene after the grenade was found to be inert, an NYPD spokesman said. No one was injured......

NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed the lobby of The New York Times building in midtown Manhattan on Thursday. About 100 protesters broke off from a larger march of about 2,000 near the 52-story skyscraper on the corner of Eighth Ave. and W. 41st St. around 4:10 p.m., cops and sources said. Outside, a demonstrator set off a smoke bomb as about 30 others breached the lobby, where witnesses said security guards let them briefly chant. Witness Jorge Garcia, 40, said the swift protest appeared “strategic.” “Their faces were wrapped with Palestinian scarves. The guy would get set up hi......

PHILADELPHIA – Since 2016, Mark Trainer has worked as a counselor for Crisis Text Line, a national nonprofit organization that provides a free mental health texting service for people in crisis. On any given day, he talks with texters about a "very wide swath of challenges," including struggles with school and relationships with their family or peers. But in March, the tone of those conversations shifted as the pandemic took hold across the country. Trainer, who is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, found himself talking to people who couldn't see their therapist due to social distancing measur......