In an apparent hack Sunday morning, the New York Times Video Twitter account posted a fake news tweet about Russia planning to launch a missile attack on the United States.

“BREAKING: leaked statement from Vladimir Putin says: Russia will attack the United States with Missiles,” read the tweet posted on the account around 10 a.m.

Two follow up tweets on the account — which has more than 259,000 followers — claimed to come from OurMine, a hacker group that has breached high-profile Twitter accounts for Marvel, Netflix and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.(nydailynews)…[+]

The Trump administration is creating an “alternative” reality with the media. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday the Trump team is offering “alternative facts” to media reports about President Trump’s inauguration.

She and others in the administration also promised a constant battle with the press over Trump coverage and even the simplest facts. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Conway said the Trump team might have to “rethink” the White House’s treatment of reporters.(nydailynews)…[+]

A twisted teen firebug set a sleeping stranger on fire aboard a Queens subway train early Friday, severely burning him, police sources said.

Christopher Jackson snuck up on his 30-year-old victim, who was dozing while listening to music on his headphones, as the G train approached its last stop at Court Square in Long Island City around 2:30 a.m., sources said. Jackson, 18, set the right arm of the victim’s jacket ablaze and slunk away, according to police source.

When Jackson arrived at Court Square, he was overheard by a transit worker boasting of the totally unprovoked attack on his cellphone, sources said. “I just lit someone on fire,” he said, according to sources.(nydailynews)…[+]

A Texas pastor with a controversial penchant for bashing Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and homosexuals will deliver a private sermon for Donald Trump and his family shortly before he is officially inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States.

Rev. Robert Jeffress, who fervently stumped for Trump on the campaign trail, leads the First Baptist Church in Dallas and announced Thursday evening that he will deliver the exclusive prayer session to Trump, President-elect Mike Pence and their respective families. “Honored to deliver sermon ‘When God Chooses a Leader’ for Trump/Pence private family service,” the pastor said over Twitter.CNN first reported on the private service, which will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street from the White House.(nydailynews)…[+]

El Chapo is headed to Brooklyn. A convoy of trucks with sirens believed to be transporting the infamous Mexican drug czar Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman pulled out of the Manhattan Correction Center around 7 a.m. Friday. He is due to face a federal judge in Brooklyn Friday afternoon after being extradited to the U.S. Thursday. He arrived at Manhattan Correction Complex around 11 p.m. Thursday after landing at Long Island MacArthur Airport on a flight from Ciudad Juarez, sources told the Daily News.Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. and Guzman is set to be arraigned around 2 p.m.

The notorious Sinaloa cartel head had been fighting his extradition for more than a year. The U.S. Justice Department has been working with Mexican authorities to get him north of the border to face charges for 12 murder conspiracies, drug trafficking and money laundering. “The Justice Department extends its gratitude to the Government of Mexico for their extensive cooperation and assistance in securing the extradition of Guzman Loera to the United States,” the agency said in a statement Thursday.(nydailynews)…[+]

JARRATT, Va. — A man convicted of killing a family of four, slashing their throats and setting their home ablaze after they left their front door open while preparing for a New Year’s Day party in 2006, was executed Wednesday.

Ricky Gray was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. The 39-year-old inmate was put to death with the sedative midazolam, followed by rocuronium bromide to halt breathing, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

Gray showed no emotion as he was walked into the execution chamber wearing blue jeans and handcuffs. Asked if he had any final words, Gray responded, “Nope.”

Gray was condemned to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.(nydailynews)…[+]

The NYPD team set up to handle calls involving the mentally ill is fatally flawed because the department has no way to direct cops with the special training to incidents involving the emotionally disturbed, a new report released Thursday found.

Since mid-2015, the department has trained 4,700 officers as part of an expanding Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) specially designed to de-escalate encounters with the mentally ill. Eighteen months later, emergency dispatchers have no way of knowing where the CIT officers are when they get a call about someone in what the department calls “mental crisis,” according to the report released by NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure.(nydailynews)…[+]

Mark Zuckerberg is suing to force about 300 Hawaiians — both living and dead — into selling their waterfront properties so that his own beach home can be a little more private. The Facebook CEO — whose 700-acre Kauai estate, purchased in 2014, includes about a dozen plots still tied to local Hawaiian families — filed eight lawsuits in December to officially acquire those areas, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reported.

The legal move, called “quiet title and partition,” would prompt locals to sell land that has been in their families for generations. They’d forfeit their rights to traverse on Zuckerberg’s estate, and the billionaire would likely compensate them financially in return.(nydailynews)…[+]

Nearly 30 Jewish community centers received bomb threats, prompting a second round of evacuations in two weeks. The JCC Association of North America said in a statement that 28 centers in 17 states had been affected on Wednesday, though many had already received the all clear by early afternoon after police did not find any devices. Local media reported that Jewish centers in Albany, Edison, N.J., Woodbridge, Conn., and West Hartford, Conn., were among those that evacuated because of the threats. Other centers from Massachusetts, Florida and California were called.(nydailynews)…[+]

WASHINGTON — President Obama defended his decision to commute the remainder of Chelsea Manning’s sentence during his final press conference as president on Wednesday, arguing that she’d done enough time already.

“Given she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received, and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence,” he said of the woman who as a private leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. “I feel very comfortable that justice has been served and a message has still been sent.”(nydailynews)…[+]