60-year-old woman stabbed in neck in NYC massage parlor: sources

A 60-year-old woman was seriously injured after being stabbed in the neck inside a Queens massage parlor on Sunday night, the NYPD and sources said. The victim was attacked inside the business on 40th Road near Main Street in Flushing just before 7:30 p.m., according to cops. She was slashed once in the neck with an unknown object after getting …

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Passenger tries to hijack Mexican flight, steer it to the US after fighting flight attendant, storming cockpit, airline says

A passenger aboard a domestic Mexican flight attempted to hijack the plane and steer it towards the United States on Sunday morning, according to a report The suspect, a 31-year-old Mexican national only identified by authorities as Mario, attacked a flight attendant and tried to force his way into the cockpit to divert the flight, according a statement from the …

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The US believes journalist Austin Tice is alive after disappearing in Syria in 2012, Biden says

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the US government believes missing American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years ago near the Syrian capital, is alive and that Washington is committed to bringing him home after Bashar Assad’s ouster from power in Damascus. “We think we can get him back,” Biden told reporters at the White House, while acknowledging …

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Adams admin hires foreign firms to run NYC’s Downtown Heliport, raising security concerns: Not ‘a wise choice’

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has chosen two foreign firms to run the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, raising concerns in some national-security circles because the president’s Marine One chopper uses it. The city Economic Development Corporation selected Downtown Skyport LLC — a partnership between Skyports Infrastructure, a UK-based firm and the operator of the London Heliport, and France’s Groupe ADP, which operates …

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Adams wants to bypass City Council to tweak NYC ‘sanctuary city’ migrant restrictions: ‘I think they’re wrong’

Mayor Eric Adams is looking for ways to go over the City Council’s head to tweak the Big Apple’s restrictive migrant “sanctuary city” designation, he said during a TV interview Sunday. “The City Council made it clear they don’t want to change that,” Adams said on CBS’s “The Point with Marcia Kramer.” “They stated they’re not willing to change the …

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Biden cheers Assad toppling, offers US support for Syria in moment of ‘risk and uncertainty’

President Biden on Sunday praised the overthrow of Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad and offered US support in setting up a new government — while acknowledging concerns about the rebels’ “grim’’ terror links. “At long last, the Assad regime has fallen. This regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians,” Biden, 82, said from the White …

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