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Tourists flocked to Rockefeller Center for the Christmas tree lighting Wednesday night, unfazed by an armed assassin on the loose after killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson around the corner hours earlier. Thousands of visitors from all over the country and overseas stood in line for hours in hopes of getting a glimpse of the famous tree in Manhattan — just …

The woman caught on camera directing a racist tirade at a wedding photographer and his Indian-American family on an LAX shuttle bus claimed she was egged on before the outburst – and that she gets “agitated very easily” because of a brain injury. The under-fire United Airlines passenger broke her silence this week as outrage grew after fellow traveler, Pervez …

A missing 91-year-old Korean War vet with dementia was found more than 200 miles away from his Wyoming home — when his worried wife spotted him on an evening newscast two days after he wandered off. Avril Black’s concern was mounting after her spouse Michael Black vanished after he left their Afton home on Nov. 25, leading her to report …

The Manhattan prosecutor who pressed jurors this week to convict Daniel Penny in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely once used a restorative justice program to secure a reduced sentence for a brute who killed an elderly professor during a mugging on the Upper West Side six years ago.  Matthew Lee, 57, was originally facing a 25 year-to-life sentence …

A Tennessee state senator has been arrested on a DUI charge after he was filmed allegedly failing a sobriety test following a drunken hit-and-run crash in Georgia. Rep. Ken Yager, 77, was caught on camera stumbling around as troopers tried to make him walk in a straight line on Jekyll Island at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, footage obtained by WTVF …

A teenage boy is accused of shooting and killing a 19-year-old in broad daylight following a botched gun deal outside a Dollar General in Florida – with cops arresting the juvenile more than year after the fatal scuffle. Kydris Jackson, 14, was charged with second-degree murder after the victim, Griffin Smith, was found riddled with bullets inside his Dodge Ram …

President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth defended his leadership of two veteran advocacy groups Wednesday amid allegations of misconduct during his tenure.  The 44-year-old Army veteran and former head of Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America has faced allegations of drunken sexual impropriety and financial mismanagement stemming from his time running the groups, which he …

This will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. A Long Island man with Down syndrome has proved that nothing can stop his dreams — as he has built and runs the world’s largest online sock company and has been able to hire a staff filled with others who face similar challenges. John Cronin, 28, co-founded the Farmingdale-based John’s Crazy Socks …

A Texas amateur boxer-turned-cheerleader went viral after her dad recorded her shadowboxing on the sidelines of a youth football game at AT&T Stadium in Dallas — and he hopes the clip of “Mighty Mia” throwing hands on the field inspires young girls around the globe. Of course, Mia Pinney, 14, of Ingleside, is no crunch-and-punch queen — she’s the national …

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice’s antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google, Visa and Apple. Slater is expected to continue the department’s crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump’s first term in the White House, …