James Thompson 
Tranq – the deadly “zombie” drug formally known as xylazine – is circulating across New York and has been tied to dozens of deaths in the state, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Sunday. Use of the flesh-rotting substance is “spreading” in Syracuse, Albany, Rochester and the Greater New York City area, Schumer said, as … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister on Sunday for breaking ranks over a controversial plan to increase government control over the country’s judicial system. Netanyahu summoned Yoav Gallant, a former army general, to his office and told him “that he doesn’t have any faith in him anymore and therefore he is fired,” … Read more
The White House strongly supports the Senate bill that could give the Commerce Department the authority to either ban TikTok or force its sale, a co-sponsor of the proposed legislation said Sunday. “I think the White House is very in favor of this bill,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on CBS News’ “Face The Nation.” … Read more
About one-third of metro area residents consider themselves overweight — and nearly one-quarter say they’d pop a prescription diabetes-fighting pill to shed extra pounds, a new survey shows. Ten percent of respondents from the city and Long Island are already taking, or know someone using, the drugs Ozempic, Mounjaro, or Wegovy to lose weight, according to … Read more
A coyote attacked two toddlers – including one while he was at a playground – in separate incidents in Arizona, according to a report. The coyote preyed upon a 21-month-old boy on Wednesday, while he was outside his family’s Scottsdale home with his mother, Kelly Pirozzi. Pirozzi told ABC News the animal bit her son … Read more
The NYPD has quietly renewed a multi-million-dollar contract with a Hollywood ad agency in an effort to attract new cops — as the department struggles to increase recruitment levels while facing a mass exodus of officers. The Los Angeles-based firm, Walton Isaacson LLC, was awarded a $5 million two-year deal in November to continue advising … Read more
The family of a Florida couple missing in Haiti says the two American citizens were ordered off of a bus and kidnapped in the Caribbean nation a week and a day ago. Relatives of Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Toussaint, both 33, say they already paid $6,000 in ransom, but now the alleged kidnapers are demanding … Read more
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly drawing battle lines against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — by blackballing anyone who works for his potential Republican rival. Trump campaign aide Justin Caporale, who helps lead Trump’s advance team, has declared that anyone who helped with DeSantis’ recent book tour is “persona non grata,” according to RealClearPolitics. The … Read more
Deputies in Georgia captured a “vicious rapist” who assaulted a taxi driver at gunpoint on Friday, authorities said. The incident happened after Christian Jacquez Taylor called for a taxi in the city of Lovejoy, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said. Taylor allegedly pulled out a gun as he entered the taxi and forced the victim to take off her … Read more
The Manhattan district attorney should be more worried about rampant local crime than trying to nail Donald Trump in a “political stunt,’’ the chairman of the House Oversight Committee said Sunday. “We just want the government out of our elections,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” We don’t believe tax … Read more