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A Philadelphia man who was exonerated and given a $4.1 million settlement after serving 24 years in prison for a murder conviction that was dropped is headed back to prison — for a separate killing. Shaurn Thomas — who was freed from a life sentence in 2017 after his 1992 murder conviction was overturned — pleaded guilty last Thursday to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to slap a gag order on a sex accuser’s lawyers to keep them from continuing to publicly discuss the $28 million in taxpayer funds paid out to defend him and others related to his cases. Cuomo is legally entitled to have the state pay for his defense costs connected to his time in office, his …

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 …

An NYPD worker claims she faced retaliation and discrimination after she begged to be reassigned after an alleged domestic violence attack, she claims in a fiery new lawsuit. Fingerprint tech Santio Williams claimed the mistreatment began when she requested a move from NYPD headquarters at 1 Police Plaza to avoid any future interactions with her alleged abuser. Her request was …

When thieves made off with Darci Bell’s rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X: “If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.” The post went viral, but not for the reason she hoped …

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 …

The firm at the center of bid-rigging claims involving Gov. Kathy Hochul’s overhaul of a $9 billion home care program added staff weeks before it won the contract, records show. Public Partnerships LLC posted a job for a manager as early as August, almost two months before it was officially awarded the contract to essentially act as a middleman between …