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City Hall beefed up security at a pair of controversial Brooklyn migrant shelters after back-to-back, potentially gang-linked shootings rattled residents in the once-peaceful neighborhood over the weekend, officials told The Post Wednesday. An additional 14 NYPD cops joined the four officers stationed near the twin shelters housing nearly 4,000 migrants along Hall and Ryerson streets … Read more

A bumbling wannabe-arsonist nearly blew their own face off Monday night when they lit a garbage can on fire outside a California Target — and almost became a casualty of their own carelessness when the eyebrow-charring blaze swelled up a bit too quickly. The unidentified suspect walked up to the store on Shoreline Parkway in … Read more

This is one dirty street corner. A battered sex doll left on an industrial corner of Bushwick has become a neighborhood attraction — with locals erecting a makeshift shrine around it. The dirt-caked rubber soul has sat at the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Melrose Street since at least Sunday — and by Wednesday it … Read more

‘Israel will fight until we destroy Hamas’s military capabilities and its rule in Gaza and bring all our hostages home. That’s what total victory means. And we will settle for nothing less’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol … Read more

The incident, which occurred in February, was Montreal’s sixth homicide of the year. Photo by Paul Chiasson /The Canadian Press files A 35-year-old man appeared at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday afternoon. He had been arrested on April 11 on an accusation of discharging a firearm the night before and had remained detained, police said. Just … Read more

A shark was euthanized after it clamped its jaws down on an Iowa aquarium employee and refused to let go. The staff member at Blue Zoo interactive aquarium in West Des Moines was bit by an 18-inch bamboo shark shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday — the aquarium’s first day celebrating “Shark Week,” KCCI first … Read more

Hantavirus is spread from rodents to people through viral droplets from handling materials with the animals’ urine, saliva or feces (Picture: Getty Images) A rodent disease that can be spread to humans and has no cure has killed several people in the US and prompted a health warning. Cases of hantavirus, which is spread from … Read more

A Pennsylvania fifth-grade teacher allegedly masturbated in a cemetery and public park — in one case staring at a woman from across a river as he touched himself, according to newly revealed court docs. Haverford Township educator Matthew Gagat was spotted by witnesses carrying out the alleged perverted acts in March and June leading to … Read more

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted Wednesday that President Biden remains sharp as a tack and “absolutely” could serve another four-year term — stunning journalists at her first briefing since Biden dropped his re-election campaign over concerns about his mental acuity. “Look, he didn’t step down from campaigning or from running because … Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed a national gathering of a black college sorority Wednesday — skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to speak instead about how she plans to build upon President Biden’s record if she becomes America’s first female president. Harris, 59, spoke to members of Zeta Phi Beta in Indianapolis … Read more