NEW YORK — A grandstanding Arizona county district attorney is refusing to extradite the man accused of strangling and bludgeoning a Queens mom sex worker in a SoHo hotel, claiming she fears he could be back on the street under Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg’s watch. During a press conference with Arizona police department heads, Maricopa County District Attorney Rachel Mitchell said she’s instructed her attorneys not to agree to any extradition for murder suspect Raad Almansoori. ‘We are going to keep him here,” Mitchell, a Republican, said. “Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in ...
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NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson now considers joining the Knicks the “best move,” but before he hit free agency in 2022, the All-Star point guard wanted to stick with the Dallas Mavericks, he said in a new interview. Brunson, now in the second season of a four-year, $104 million contract with the Knicks, maintains he was prepared to sign a significantly cheaper extension with Dallas before the 2021-22 season but the Mavericks took too long to commit. “I really did want to stay in Dallas,” Brunson, 27, said on the “All The Smoke” podcast. “Before my fourth season in Dallas, my last season in Dallas, w...
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NEW YORK — The federal government knows who killed Jam Master Jay — and the killer’s not one of the two men on trial for the Run-DMC icon’s murder, the suspects’ defense attorneys said Wednesday. In their closing arguments, the lawyers for Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald “Tinard” Washington blamed the DJ’s 2002 murder on another man, Jay Bryant — who confessed to his uncle about the killing, and whose DNA was on a hat found at the murder scene. “Who is Jay Bryant? Well, Jay Bryant is literally reasonable doubt in this case,” Jordan’s lawyer, Michael Hueston, told the jury. “We have a single person ...
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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. “30 minutes after departing Albuquerque I was shaken out of my Panda Express and tequila-induced stupor by a man trying to aggressively open the airp...
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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...
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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...
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NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams called off a plan Wednesday to cut all city agency budgets by 5% this spring — but also announced he’s going to slash nearly $600 million in projected spending on housing and services for newly arrived migrants. Under a plan first rolled out by City Hall in fall 2023, all agencies were supposed to face 5% budget reductions in April — on top of two previous rounds of 5% cuts in November and January — in order to offset costs associated with caring for the migrants. But in a statement Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said he’s canceling the April cuts thanks to “better-...
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A family friend of Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a Southeast Texas river, has been charged with capital murder, authorities said Wednesday. Don Steven McDougal, 42, had been previously described as a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Cunningham, who was last seen on the morning of Feb. 15 on her way to school. The girl, who was carrying a bright red “Hello Kitty” backpack, failed to make it to the school bus and never reported to class, school officials told authorities. Her disappearance prompted a massive search in the area that ended with heartbr...
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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 ...
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Kodai Senga may have the Mets’ first injury of spring training. Senga skipped Wednesday’s workout at Clover Park after complaining of “arm fatigue.” The Mets ace spent the afternoon with the trainers and manager Carlos Mendoza did not have any other information after the workout. “After his side session yesterday he came in experiencing some arm fatigue,” Mendoza said. “So he stayed inside and we’re taking a look at it.” Senga was with the trainers after practice and was unable to speak with the media. It’s not yet known whether he will undergo imaging on his arm. Arm fa...
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