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A drone is flown for recreational purposes in the sky above Old Bethpage, New York in 2015. A lawsuit alleges that Sonoma County is using drones to enforce code violations. (Bruce Bennett / Getty Images) Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take … Read more

His stomach was growling for geezers! A hungry black bear broke into a Pittsburgh-area nursing home and wreaked havoc — forcing a caretaker to whack him with a walker while others coaxed him with Rice Krispies treats, workers said Friday. “I grabbed a walker and was hitting him, trying to get him away from the … Read more

Police are investigating after vandals defaced a mural of baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso that is part of a collection of artwork honoring baseball players in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood. The vandalism was discovered Sunday by a 7-year-old boy who asked his mother what the words and the Nazi symbols meant, community leaders said … Read more

An aerial view of thousands of homes and businesses that were destroyed in the Eaton fire in Altadena. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Homeowners whose homes were severely damaged or destroyed by the fires that scorched the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities in January may qualify for up to $20,000 in mortgage relief. … Read more

Dead as the Trump-Musk bromance plainly is, neither man — nor the American people, heck even the world as a whole — would benefit from a disruption in federal contracts for at least two Musk companies: Starlink and, especially, SpaceX. It looked to be headed that way at one point in Thursday’s post-war, with President … Read more

President Joe Biden attends the dignified transfer for fallen service members U.S. Army Sgt. William Rivers, Sgt. Breonna Moffett and Sgt. Kennedy Sanders at Dover Air Force Base on February 02, 2024 in Dover, Delaware. Getty Images Autopen abuse is only the latest wrinkle in the now decades-old problems surrounding the presidential pardon power. The … Read more

ALBANY – Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie torpedoed a bipartisan bill that would have commemorated the horrific Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The Bronx pol went to extraordinary lengths Friday to ensure that the measure would not make it to the Assembly floor for a vote, stacking a committee with compliant Democratic allies who’d vote … Read more

A 17-year-old boy was shot — possibly by a Citi Bike-riding gunman — outside a Bronx housing development Thursday night, hours after two other boys his age were struck by gunfire in the borough, cops said.  The teen was blasted in the hip as he walked on the grounds of NYCHA’s Forest Houses on Trinity … Read more

FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Friday that there was a recent “breakthrough” in the COVID-19 origins probe after recovering the devices, including phones, that Dr. Anthony Fauci used in the earliest days of the pandemic. Fauci, one of the primary medical leaders during the deadly pandemic, is being investigated as part of the larger inquiry … Read more

Nearly three-quarters of Republicans side with President Trump in his public clash with Elon Musk, according to a new poll released Friday. Just 6% of Republicans back Musk in his dispute with Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” – intended to be the signature legislative achievement of the president’s second term – while … Read more