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A California elementary school janitor was wrongfully locked up in prison for five years after a “mentally ill woman” and “self-confessed opioid addict” lied to cops that he was raping young kids, a new lawsuit claims. Pedro Martinez, now 55, was working as the custodian at Maple Elementary School near Bakersfield when he was suddenly arrested and slapped with a …

The grieving young widow of slain NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller was honored during Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards Thursday night – nine months after the fallen cop was shot dead approaching two ex-cons in a parked car in Queens. Diller’s wife, Stephanie, 29, accepted the “Stephen Siller Black the Blue” award on behalf of her late husband from Fox News personality …

The City Council on Thursday passed Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial and ambitious plan to build 80,000 new housing units across the Big Apple over the next 15 years. The initiative — known as “City of Yes” — was approved in a 31-20 vote after months of tense negotiations in City Hall as Hizzoner seeks to address the city’s housing and affordability crisis. …

The manhunt for the cold-blooded assassin who gunned down UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown entered its second day Thursday — and investigators have no shortage of clues. Beyond the chilling first image showing the masked suspect’s face — in which he grins widely — NYPD detectives and FBI agents ran down leads and processed a trail of evidence they …

Dinos on display! A 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus fossil, known as Apex, is set to be displayed at the American Museum of Natural History. It will be displayed among the museum’s fossilized dinosaur skeletons beginning on Sunday, Dec. 8, and will remain at the New York City location for the next four years. After that, a cast of Apex will replace the skeleton. …

Mayor Eric Adams is set to meet with President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan next week — as the city scrambles to prepare for a massive shift in immigration policy with the incoming White House administration. “I am looking forward to sitting down and speaking with the border czar next week,” Adams said on MSNBC Thursday morning. “I want to …

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence’s group on Thursday pushed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to slash government spending by eliminating handouts for illegal migrants and banning DEI funding, among other proposals, according to a memo exclusively obtained by The Post. Advancing American Freedom urged the DOGE counterparts to trim …

Newly-released photos of the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sparked wild conspiracies online Thursday — including that the possible killer bears an eerie resemblance to movie starts like Timothee Chalamet and Jake Gyllenhaal. The grinning suspected gunman — accused of shooting the executive execution-style on a Midtown street Wednesday — was unmasked Thursday in surveillance …

A tsunami warning has been issued for a swatch of the West Coast after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern California. The epicenter of the warning is near the coastal city off Eureka, where the temblor shook Thursday morning. The warning stretches as far north as Florence, Oregon, and as far south as Davenport, California. This …

Sen. Joni Ernst admitted Thursday that she was not ready to vote “yes” on Defense Secretary-designee Pete Hegseth — in a setback for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick who is facing a slew of sexual impropriety and professional misconduct allegations. In an interview on Fox News, “America’s Newsroom” co-anchor Bill Hemmer asked Ernst if she had “gotten to a yes” after …