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The two young girls horrifically killed in a Brooklyn subway surfing tragedy have now been identified – while the younger victim’s devastated dad sobbed that his slain daughter was “full of life, and taken from us far too soon.” Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, of Brooklyn, and Ebba Morina, 13, of Manhattan, were found unconscious and unresponsive on top of a Brooklyn-bound J train at the Marcy Avenue-Broadway subway station in Williamsburg around 3:10 a.m. on Saturday, cops and sources said.  The two young girls horrifically killed in a Brooklyn subway surfing tragedy have now been identified. LoudlabsNYC Zemfira Mukhtarov, 12, was…

Sean “Diddy” Combs wants to serve out his 50-month sentence in New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix because of the low-security prison’s drug treatment and rehabilitation program. Combs’ legal team filed request on Monday naming the Sunshine State facility as the disgraced rapper’s lockup of choice after he was hit the paltry sentence for prostitution-related charges on Friday. “In order to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts, we request that the Court strongly recommend to the Bureau of Prisons that Mr. Combs be placed at FCI Fort Dix for RDAP purposes and any other available…

A police officer and his businesswoman wife died from heatstroke after getting into an overheated bathtub while drunk and high on cocaine as they celebrated their 4-year-old daughter’s birthday, authorities in Brazil have said. Military cop Jeferson Luiz Sagaz, 37, and his nail salon owner partner, Ana Carolina Silva, 41, were found dead in a motel in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina on the night of Aug. 11, Brazilian outlet G1 Globo reported. The couple had spent the day celebrating their young daughter’s birthday, drinking alcohol and doing cocaine, before going to a nightclub and checking into the Dallas Motel…

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It was almost exactly 30 years ago when Don Mattingly got one of the biggest hits of his career: a go-ahead homer off Andy Benes in Game 2 of the 1995 ALDS, the first Yankees playoff appearance in 14 years and the only postseason series of Mattingly’s career.  And it happened at the previous Yankee Stadium in what proved to be Mattingly’s final home game.  He’s been back to The Bronx as a coach and manager plenty of times since, even after leaving the Yankees coaching staff following the 2007 season, but on Tuesday, he’ll have a chance to clinch…

Visitors to the Moroccan city of Fez find its streets lined with sidewalk cafes. Throughout the day and evening hours, small groups of men sit at outdoor tables, drinking coffee, mint tea, and Fanta. If a woman sits at an outdoor table, she’ll probably sit a long time before a waiter comes to take her order. Or a waiter may never come. If the woman is a tourist and is unfamiliar with Morocco’s cultural norms, she may become irritated by the waiter’s tepid response to her desire to simply order a beverage. Meanwhile, the cafe’s waiters and male patrons may…

California’s Proposition 50 fight kicks off early voting with a showdown between Gavin Newsom’s national ambitions and local activists demanding voter control. Backed by out-of-state progressives like AOC and Elizabeth Warren, Newsom’s push to redraw election maps faces fierce resistance from Californians who call it a power grab by the political elite. Author Kira Davis says let Californian’s determine their own voting districts — not politicians with ambitions beyond 2026 and beyond California.

Come to where the flavor is.  A storied stretch of Wyoming land where the Marlboro Man — yes, the cigarette brand — once rode across America’s collective imagination in advertising campaigns has hit the market for $52.8 million, reports Mansion Global. Pitchfork Ranch, a nearly 100,000-acre working cattle property outside Meeteetse, has defined the Western frontier for almost a century and a half. The sellers, retired physicians Lenox and Fran Baker, purchased the ranch in 1999 for $13 million and lived there for more than a decade before relocating to Park City, Utah. Pitchfork Ranch, the nearly 100,000-acre Wyoming spread…

At least 4,200 Cuban nationals are fighting for Moscow in its brutal war on Kyiv, Ukrainian intelligence services told The Post on Monday — and US officials are concerned it signals a growing threat to security in the Western Hemisphere as Havana deepens its relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. While Moscow has previously reached out to other US adversaries for manpower help — most notably North Korea, which sent at least 15,000 troops to fight alongside the Russians — the addition of mass quantities of troops from Cuba is particularly concerning as the US seeks to focus more security…

The Democrat challenging Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman slammed the US cash bail system in newly resurfaced social media posts – claiming the system inflames “racial inequality.” Seth Koslow, a Nassau lawmaker, wrote on Facebook on March 30, 2021, “America’s cash bail system criminalizes poverty and exacerbates racial inequality” — two years after the state Legislature and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved New York’s controversial law eliminating cash bail for a slew of crimes. He also posted to Facebook, on Dec. 3, 2019, in a response to an ACLU article about the prison industrial complex that “ending mass incarceration will require…