Oregon missing boy with autism, Joshua McCoy, found dead in Hauser

A 5-year-old Oregon boy with autism was found dead Tuesday afternoon after he vanished from his home over the weekend, authorities said. The body of Joshua McCoy — whose birthday is just four days away — was discovered around 12:30 p.m. about 1.6 miles from his home in Hauser, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office said in a tragic update. The …

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Elderly couple battered by brute in attempted robbery in NYC

An elderly couple were pummeled Saturday night on a Manhattan sidewalk by a would-be robber who fled shirtless after the attack, according to cops and police sources. A 75-year-old man and his 70-year-old girlfriend were walking on West 44st Street in midtown around 10:25 p.m. when an unknown individual tried to snatch the woman’s purse, police and sources said. The …

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Florida police launch investigation after human head washes ashore Miami beach

Florida officials launched an investigation after a severed human head was discovered by horrified beachgoers on a Key Biscayne beach, just south of Miami Beach, Tuesday morning. The Miami-Dade Police Department arrived at the beach around 8:40 a.m. after receiving multiple reports about a human head on the sand. The head was originally found by a worker raking the beach, …

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Anti-Israel student group to host panel that reeks of ‘blood libel’ at SUNY Downstate: Jewish doctors

An anti-Israel student group is sponsoring a lecture at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday that accuses Israelis of committing health care “genocide” in Gaza — provoking outrage from Jewish doctors who say it’s propaganda and “blood libel” against Jews. The event — co-sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine — is titled “CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY: The Decimation …

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Trump announces Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’

President-elect Donald Trump continued to fill his administration at breakneck speed Tuesday night, tapping SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency.” Despite the name, Trump clarified in a statement that the Musk-Ramaswamy effort would “provide advice and guidance from outside of Government” in tandem with the White House and …

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Ad calls on ‘sore loser’ Pa. Sen. Bob Casey to stop ‘disrespecting our democracy’ and concede to Republican Dave McCormick

PITTSBURGH — Though Election Day is past, swing-state advertising isn’t. A new ad hit Pennsylvania airwaves Tuesday calling on three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey to concede the race the Associated Press called last week for Republican Sen.-elect Dave McCormick. “Casey and the Democrats are sore losers. And they’re disrespecting our democracy,” says the female narrator in the 30-second ad from …

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Sunken World War II warship USS Edsall found after 82 years

An American World War II warship sunk by Japanese forces in a fierce battle after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. More than 200 American servicemen perished when the USS Edsall was brought down by Japanese forces on March 1, 1942. The Royal Australian Navy discovered the vessel last year some …

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