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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......

American voters are broadly skeptical that President Joe Biden is mentally fit to serve a second term, and most do not think his potential general election rival Donald Trump is mentally fit either, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday. Sixty-four percent of respondents in the poll said Biden was mentally unfit for another term, a bleak data point for the president in a survey where he nonetheless outperformed his topline numbers in many other polls. Fifty-one percent of voters told the pollster they did not think Trump was mentally fit for a second term on Pennsylvani......

As Malia Obama makes strides in her Hollywood career, she’s decided to take on a new name. The writer and producer, who is also the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama, will now go by her middle name: Malia Ann, perhaps in an effort to distance herself from her powerful parents’ fame. The change was revealed in the Sundance Institute’s “Meet the Artist” spotlight video, which introduced her as a filmmaker. She described her film project “The Heart” as “an odd little story, somewhat of a fable, about a man grieving the death of his mother after she leaves him an unusual request in her ......

The suspect sought for strangling and bludgeoning a woman found dead in a SoHo hotel has been nabbed in Arizona after stabbing two women there, police source said Tuesday. NYPD detectives want to question Raad Almansoori for the Feb. 8 murder of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, who wasfound strangled and struck in the head with an iron inside the SoHo 54 hotel on Watts St. near Sixth Ave, cops said. Almansoori, 26, is facing charges for two separate stabbings of women in Arizona, according to local news outlet Arizona’s Family. Both women survived. Police sources say Almansoori lives in Arizona and wa......

A dancer in Madonna’s Celebration Tour fell while dragging the star in a chair mid-concert in Seattle on Sunday, sending the chair and the pop goddess tumbling to the floor. Madonna, 65, didn’t miss a note or a beat. Landing on her back, she quickly flipped onto her stomach, singing all the while, and finished belting out her line in “Open Your Heart to Me.” She then giggled and leaped to her feet, declining offers of assistance. In video posted on social media, Madonna was seen sitting in the chair as the dancer tilted it back and dragged it across the stage. He apparently lost his grip, thou......