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NEW YORK – Raindrops of relief are expected to begin falling Sunday night for parched regions of the US, including the Northeast and mid-Atlantic plagued by extreme fire weather and poor air quality. This rain event won’t be drought-ending, but it’s a start. The first rounds of rainfall in weeks will help improve conditions for firefighters across the region battling extreme …

Two people were found dead with their necks slashed in a grisly scene inside a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon. The victims, a 91-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman, were discovered brutally killed inside a two-story home at 186 Warwick St. in Cypress Hills at around 4:30 p.m. by officers responding to a 911 call, police said. The bodies of both …

Women online have taken to filming ghoulish murder-fantasy videos in which they romanticize lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Trump presidency. Many of the videos have been viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women fiendishly grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea …

New breakthroughs have emerged in the search for a missing 15-year-old autistic boy in Tennessee, and a celebrity bounty hunter has joined in the effort. Sebastian Rogers, who has “high-functioning autism” according to his mother, was last seen in his Hendersonville home on the evening of Feb. 25. Search efforts were widespread when Sebastian was first reported missing, but cops …

The city has stopped using two hotels sheltering migrants in the Big Apple — with many other locations to be phased out in the coming months, The Post has learned. The 23-room Hotel Merit in Times Square and the 73-room Quality Inn JFK Airport are the first hotels the city has stopped using as emergency shelters as the influx of …

It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his great-great-great-granddaughter, Spectrum News NY1 anchor Cheryl Wills, tracked down his unmarked grave in Tennessee, she told The Post. Wills went on a 15-year fact-finding mission — with the help of …

Footage of a mysterious creature roaming through a West Virginia park has left locals and animal experts stumped — with some residents guessing the enigmatic beast is anything from a lemur to a lion. Brittany Keller said she was driving to work Oct. 24 when she noticed an unusual animal with a dark coat and long curved tail near a …

A liberal pundit Sunday floated nominating failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris to replace US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor while the Democrats still cling to power. Bakari Sellers, a CNN commentator and former state lawmaker in South Carolina, was adamant on social media that progressives need to ramp up pressure on Sotomayor, a 70-year-old type 1 diabetic, to step aside …

Vice President Kamala Harris‘ former communications director floated a wild plan to make her the first female commander-in-chief — all President Biden has to do is resign. Jamal Simmons, who served as part of Harris’ team from 2022 until 2023, urged Biden to step aside so that Harris could make history — even despite her massive defeat to President-elect Donald …

Hard-core Democrats are seething that one of their own — Staten Island city Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks — praised a pro-Donald Trump-Make America Great Again statement posted on social media. Republican Vincent Ignizio, the deputy executive director of the city Board of Elections, issued a statement on his personal Facebook account after the Nov. 5 election saying, “Popular vote 300+ electoral …