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A New Jersey lawmaker want a drone — and he wants one now. Republic Congressman Chris Smith is demanding The Pentagon shoot down one of the nearly 1,000 drones that have been spotted above the Garden State since Nov. 19, so answers can be had. “Why can’t we bag at least one drone and get to the bottom of this?” …

President-elect Trump and George Stephanopoulos must sit for hours-long depositions just days before Christmas as part of the incoming president’s defamation suit against ABC News and its star anchor, a federal judge said.  Miami Magistrate Judge Lisette Reid ordered Trump to appear in-person next week to give the deposition, which will be capped at four hours. The proceeding must take …

Eric Adams’ reelection bid is facing a watershed moment Monday when the city Campaign Finance Board is expected to decide whether to grant the indicted mayor millions in public matching funds. Adams, who is expected to stand trial in April to fight federal corruption charges that include alleged campaign fraud, would face a steep uphill battle in a packed June …

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in. “This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour …

One man was killed early Saturday when a fire broke out in a 10th floor apartment of an Upper West Side building that provides subsidized housing for the elderly.  The victim was not immediately publicly identified and no one else was hurt, according to the FDNY, which said 20 units and 78 fire and EMY personnel responded to the 7:30 …

A fed-up New Jersey sheriff said he tried to track the mystery drones swarming the skies above his county — but they “easily” evaded the effort. The Ocean County Sheriff’s office sent its own “industrial grade” drone into the air Thursday in a bid to follow one of 50 unmanned aerial vehicles a local cop saw “coming off the ocean,” …

They’re having themselves a cheesy little Christmas. A New Jersey deli is crafting 2-foot-tall ravioli Christmas trees — and they’re fry-ing off the shelf. Taliercio’s in Middletown, NJ, shared their festive Italian creation, trimmed with kale, cherry tomatoes and around 50 fried ravioli, two weeks ago on TikTok and Instagram. They were soon inundated with over 100 orders — and people …

The NYPD has a fleet of at least 109 drones that could be called into service in the face of recent incursions in the skies over New York and New Jersey. The sightings are being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, an NYPD official said. “We have NYPD detectives as well as FBI agents and state officials and they’re …

The kids are all right.  First Lady Jill Biden wished youngsters “Happy Holidays” at a Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign Friday – but several children quickly corrected her, shouting “Happy Christmas” in a caught-on-camera interaction that sparked a social media frenzy. “Hello! How are you? Hi! Happy Holidays,” the 73-year-old first lady told children attending the annual Marine …

Harvard University president Alan M. Garber reportedly told faculty that they need to rethink their messaging following the Republican Party’s election sweep.  Garber reportedly described the sour mood in Washington, DC regarding higher education as the single greatest threat to the university in recent memory, the Harvard Crimson reported. During a closed-door session of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on …