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Trump vows to unleash feds on critics in revenge push if he wins reelection

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to unleash federal prosecutors on critics if he wins reelection next year in what he frames as retaliation for his own criminal woes. The once-and-maybe-future president openly admitted that he would order authorities to prosecute his rivals, a move that would amount to a dramatic break with a bedrock principle of the American legal system. “If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say: ‘Go down and indict them,'” Trump told the Spanish-language Univision network in an interview aired Thursday night. “T...

American Airlines passengers tackle, restrain man who tried to open emergency exit mid-flight

Passengers onboard an American Airlines flight reported feeling rushing wind when a fellow traveler attempted to rip open the emergency exit in mid-air on Tuesday.

Six of them sprang into action, tackling the man and holding him down in the aisle until the plane safely returned to Sunport Airport in Albuquerque.

Flight 1219 had been on its way to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport when the incident occurred roughly half an hour after takeoff.

Alleged organizer of plot to assassinate Iranian American journalist extradited to U.S.

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 in the 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.

Most voters say Biden, Trump both mentally unfit for 2nd term, poll finds

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.

Suspect in murder of N.Y. mom nabbed after stabbing 2 women in Arizona: sources

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...

Chair mishap sends Madonna tumbling during Seattle concert

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.

America needs Joe Biden’s best to keep Donald Trump out of the White House

By Leonard Greene

He’s still a little goofy, and the doddering old man moments still make us all a little uncomfortable, but on the subject of Russia’s out-of-control aggression, President Joe Biden came off last week as a strong and capable leader.

At a news conference addressing the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Biden took on all comers: the bully president in Moscow, the shameless Congress in Washington and the troublemaking candidate who wants to push him out of the White House.

“Make no mistake — Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” Biden said Friday, mincing no words ...

As deaths climb, NYC mulls e-bike crackdown under new agency planned by Mayor Eric Adams

E-bike safety checks and enforcement would be a key role of the new city agency Mayor Eric Adams is contemplating to regulate New York’s growing food and package delivery industry.

Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi — who is leading Adams’ push to design and establish what some informally call the Department of Sustainable Delivery — told the New York Daily News the agency “will regulate new forms of delivery transit and ensure their safety.”

“The equipment that you’re going to use to do that delivery has to be inspected,” said Joshi.

New footage from Kansas City parade shooting shows teens arguing moments before gunfire

New video has emerged from the deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, which appears to show teenagers in a heated exchange just moments before shots were fired. In the footage, obtained by TMZ, a teen in the background wearing a red sweatshirt can be seen removing his backpack while arguing with someone off-camera. A young man in a black hoodie and another in a brown jacket and white sweatshirt can also be seen walking toward the direction of the argument happening out of frame. The person in the brown jacket, who also had a bandana covering his face, appears to be the s...

16-year-old Taylor Swift fan dies after being hit by semi on way to concert in Australia

A 16-year-old Taylor Swift fan was killed in a car crash on Thursday while she was on her way to Swift’s concert in Melbourne, Australia. Mieka Pokarier was traveling with her mother, Kim, and 10-year-old sister Freya when their SUV was struck by a semitruck, TMZ reported Saturday. All three passengers were injured in the collision, in addition to the driver of the semitruck, but only Mieka’s injuries proved fatal. She was pronounced dead by emergency responders who arrived on the scene, while Freya was airlifted to Sydney’s Westmead Hospital in critical condition and placed in a medically ind...

After fraud ruling, what becomes of Donald Trump’s N.Y. real estate business?

NEW YORK — Donald Trump may be forced to fork over a fortune under an order in his civil fraud case issued Friday, but it does not look like he will be losing his ritzy New York real estate holdings any time soon, legal experts said.

The decision from Justice Arthur Engoron in the long-running Manhattan Supreme Court case clarified the question after the judge issued a much-analyzed ruling in September that seemed to signal Trump might have to give up control of coveted properties.

Taylor Swift allegedly got Kanye West ‘kicked out’ of Super Bowl seats

Kanye West seemingly hoped to upstage Taylor Swift and reignite their age-old feud at last weekend’s Super Bowl — but the “Anti-Hero” singer reportedly thwarted his alleged plans. The newly minted 14-time Grammy winner, 34, allegedly got the embattled “Heartless” rapper, 46, booted from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas after learning he’d purchased seats in front of her suite for the showdown between Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. “Typical Kanye. Taylor Swift gets pissed off — she boom-boom makes a call or two. Everybody’s involved. He gets kicked out the stadium,...

NYPD releases video pressing hunt for ‘cowards’ who shot up Bronx subway stop

The wanted men who shot up a Bronx train and subway platform during a “chance encounter” between rival gangs that left one dead and five injured are nothing but ‘cowards’ NYPD brass said as they asked the public’s help hunting them down. “Help us take these cowards off the street,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry implored during a two-minute video released Tuesday evening titled “NYPD: Most Wanted.” “If you recognize these cowards, please call.” “Six people, six New Yorkers shot,” Daughtry added, recounting the bloodbath on the uptown No. 4 train at the Mount Eden subway st...

Trump denounces ‘foolish’ Mazi Melesa Pilip after special election loss to Democrat Tom Suozzi

Former President Trump derided losing Republican congressional candidate Mazi Melesa Pilip as a “very foolish woman” hours after she lost a closely watched Long Island special election to fill the seat once held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos. Trump blamed the trailblazing Ethiopian Israeli immigrant’s loss on her failure to come out strongly enough in favor of him during the campaign against Democrat Tom Suozzi. “This very foolish woman, Mazi Melesa Pilip, …didn’t endorse me and tried to ‘straddle the fence,’ when she would have easily WON,” Trump wrote on his social media site. The forme...