New York Daily News,
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John Annese
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WES PARNELL
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The gunman who fired a barrage of rounds into crowded Times Square was trying to kill his brother but wound up wounding three innocent bystanders—including a 4-year-old girl, police sources said Sunday. The suspect, identified by sources as 31-year-old Farrakhan Muhammad, was still on the run Sunday after turning Manhattan’s tourist hub into a shooting gallery, the sources said. Muhammad, who peddles bootleg CDs at the Crossroads of the World, had gotten into an argument before he pulled out a pistol and started shooting wildly, sources said. One stray bullet struck 4-year-old Skye Martinez of Gravesend, Brooklyn,
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Gina Martinez
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The U.S. Navy has seized an arms shipment of thousands of illicit assault weapons, machines guns and sniper rifles hidden aboard a ship in the Arabian Sea likely headed for Yemen, officials have said. The U.S. fifth fleet, based in Bahrain, announced on Sunday that the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey discovered the weapons aboard a stateless dhow—a traditional Mideast sailing ship - in an operation that began Thursday in the northern reaches of the Arabian Sea off Oman and Pakistan. An American defense official said the weapons resembled previous shipments which have been intercepted that were bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
New York Daily News,
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Brittany Kriegstein
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WES PARNELL
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The only thought that crossed a mother’s mind after she was shot in Times Square was a prayer that the bullet in her leg wouldn’t be fatal. Wendy Magrinat, 23, was standing in line at a store with her family in Times Square when shots rang out on W. 44th St. and Seventh Ave. about 4:55 p.m. Saturday.(Snip) The shooting happened after several men got into an argument. “It is during this dispute that at least one person pulls out a gun,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said during a press conference. “It is during that pulling out the gun and the gunfire
Daily Mail (UK),
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Harriet Alexander
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Starbucks is reportedly considering closing its Facebook page as a result of the 'hateful comments' in response to some of their posts. An internal memo, obtained by Buzzfeed, showed concern within Starbucks at the rhetoric on the site.(Snip)'Anytime they post (organically) in regards to social issues or their mission & values work (e.g. BLM, LGBTQ, sustainability/climate change, etc.) they are overwhelmed by negative/insensitive, hate speech related comments on their posts.' The Facebook employee said that Starbucks was having problems moderating the avalanche of hate speech, and was unable to disable comments on their page. Much of the offensive commentary is swiftly removed.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Andrew Court
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Harriet Alexander
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The largest gasoline pipeline in the country was shut down on Friday after a sophisticated ransomware attack, which experts are calling the most dramatic cyberattack on U.S. soil to date. In a Saturday statement, Colonial Pipeline said that it 'proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.' The hackers are likely a professional cybercriminal group, and a group dubbed 'DarkSide' was among the potential suspects, two U.S. government officials told Reuters.(Snip) DarkSide is known for deploying ransomware and extorting victims—while avoiding targets in post-Soviet states.
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Stephen M. Lepore
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Paterson, N.J.—A New Jersey man was arrested and charged Friday with the luring and sexual assault of an 8-year-old, prosecutors in Passaic County said Saturday. Police in the town of Bloomingdale received a report that Juan Ixcotoyac-Tiu, 25, approached an 8-year-old riding a scooter near Leary Avenue and Oak Street. Ixcotoyac-Tiu then allegedly kept the child from fleeing and sexually assaulted the victim. Two citizens in the area intervened and called the police, who immediately arrived on the scene and took Ixcotoyac-Tiu into custody. Ixcotoyac-Tiu is charged with second-degree luring, sexual assault, criminal restraint and endangering
New York Daily News,
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Elizabeth Keogh *
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A woman and a child were wounded in gunfire in Times Square on Saturday afternoon, police said. Police were called to the area near W. 44th St. and Seventh Ave. around 4:55 p.m. Both victims were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, and their wounds were not life-threatening, said police. The child was around 3 years old, said a law enforcement source.(Snip) “I heard three loud shots,” said Sandy Espinoza, 42, a visitor from Illinois who says she was standing at W. 46th St. and Seventh Ave. when the gunfire erupted.
“Everybody was running,” Espinoza said. “People were panicking and screaming. It was like a stampede
Daily Mail (UK),
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Tom Pyman
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Mark Nicol
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Chinese scientists have been preparing for a Third World War fought with biological and genetic weapons including coronavirus for the last six years, according to a document obtained by US investigators. The bombshell paper, accessed by the US State Department, insists they will be 'the core weapon for victory' in such a conflict, even outlining the perfect conditions to release a bioweapon, and documenting the impact it would have on 'the enemy's medical system'.(Snip) The dossier by People's Liberation Army scientists and health officials, details of which were reported in The Australian, examined the manipulation of diseases to make weapons 'in a way never seen before'.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Bevan Hurley
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Holden Walter-Warner
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Residents of Venice Beach in Los Angeles say soaring crime rates and the exploding homeless population have made life in the elite beachside community unbearable. A 'catastrophic' increase in homelessness in Los Angeles has seen hundreds of tents line the beach's famous boardwalk. Business owners say they are being forced to close their doors and longterm residents are afraid to leave their homes after dark after being subjected to violent attacks and intimidation. Recent incidents—including a shooting on April 28 and an explosion at a homeless encampment—have left residents and business owners shaken. Fed-up locals have written to city and county officials
Washington Times,
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Andrew Blake
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Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington will soon became a permanent art installation, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stated this week, nearly a year since it first came to fruition. Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, told The Washington Post on Thursday that efforts are underway to enhance the two-block stretch of 16th Street NW that she designated as Black Lives Matter Plaza last June. “In fact, right now we’re undergoing a process to make the installation more permanent with lighting and landscaping and all the things that you expect in an iconic art installation,” said Ms. Bowser.
New York Post,
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Craig McCarthy
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Bruce Golding
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This week’s indictment of 18 reputed gang members not only solved the infamous slaying of a 1-year-old Brooklyn boy, it nailed those responsible for three more murders and a slew of other shootings, authorities say. Members of the Hoolies gang allegedly murdered a total of four victims and left nine more wounded while unleashing mayhem across Bedford-Stuyvesant amid a deadly turf war with the rival 900 gang. Seven people—the majority of the 13 shot—were innocent bystanders caught up in the violence that the remorseless Hoolies allegedly perpetrated—and later celebrated in posts on Facebook and Instagram, as well as in music videos
New York Post,
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Gabrielle Fonrouge
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A New York mom is caught between a rock and an appellate court. The upstate woman has been told she needs to ditch a driveway decoration painted with a confederate flag or risk losing custody of her mixed race child—even though a family court judge didn’t consider it to be an issue when it was raised during trial. “Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child’s best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world
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*, Rocco Parascandola, and Bill Sanderson
"Gunfire erupted" is journalistic code for "black people shooting wildly," which is confirmed by the photo of the perp in the otherwise abbreviated NY Post version of the story. Times Square was cleaned up under Rudy Giuliani, but Warren Wilhelm, aka "Bill De Blasio" has a different vision for the Rotten Apple, and Real New Yorkers seem to agree.