Former President George H.W. Bush was taken into an intensive care unit Wednesday, while his wife Barbara Bush was admitted into the same Houston hospital, their spokesman said Wednesday.

The former President entered the ICU at Houston Methodist Hospital after experiencing an acute respiratory problem stemming from pneumonia, spokesman Jim McGrath said. He was in stable condition after a procedure to clear his airway, McGrath said. Meanwhile, the former First Lady was also hospitalized for “fatigue and coughing,” according to McGrath. There were no immediate updates on her condition.(nydailynews)…[+]

Less than a month after celebrating her 60th birthday, the world’s oldest gorilla has died. Colo, the first-ever gorilla born in captivity, died in her sleep overnight, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium shared on Facebook.

She was recently diagnosed with cancer and had a surgery to remove a tumor just ahead of her record-breaking birthday on Dec. 22. After six decades, Colo exceeded average life expectancy by more than 20 years. The zoo celebrated Colo’s milestone by live-streaming her birthday party to fans all over the world, with thousands more turning up in person to give the primate their well wishes.(nydailynews)…[+]

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump isn’t ready to let it go with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.).

Trump returned to his attacks against Lewis, a civil rights icon who the President-elect has been railing against for days over his decision to boycott Trump’s inauguration.

“John Lewis said about my inauguration, ‘It will be the first one that I’ve missed.’ WRONG (or lie)! He boycotted Bush 43 also,” Trump tweeted before quoting a 2001 Washington Post story that said Lewis skipped President George W. Bush’s swearing-in because he “thought it would be hypocritical to attend Bush’s swearing-in because he doesn’t believe Bush is the true elected president.”

The attacks are Trump’s latest aimed at Lewis, a student civil rights leader who organized the original March on Washington and endured multiple beatings — including one at the Edmund Pettus bridge where his skull was fractured.(nydailynews)…[+]

A 31-year-old police officer who shot himself in the neck in his Staten Island home early Tuesday has died, police sources said.

The officer, a nine-year member of the department assigned to the 120th Precinct, shot himself in the neck in suburban Arden Heights at about 5 a.m., sources said.

Paramedics rushed him to Staten Island University Hospital South, where he died at about 5:30 a.m., according to sources. Police did not immediately release the cop’s name as they were yet to inform family members of his death.(nydailynews)…[+]

/abonnement/Former NYPD detective and prospective mayoral candidate Bo Dietl blasted Mayor de Blasio Sunday morning, calling him a “corrupt” man who is “very disliked.”

Speaking to John Catsimatidis on his 970 AM radio show, “CATS Roundtable,” Dietl accused de Blasio of trying to “capitalize on the great work that the New York Police Department has done.” “The men and women in the New York Police Department are the ones who brought the crime down…For de Blasio to try to take any credit is disgusting,” Dietl also said. Dietl added that cops “hate this mayor.”(nydailynews)…[+]

A 21-year-old man was shot in the face on a Brooklyn street Sunday, police said. The victim was walking on President St. near Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights when he heard shots fired before being struck in the left cheek, cops said. The man was taken to Kings County Hospital and was expected to survive, officials said. The shooter was being sought Sunday night.(nydailynews)…[+]

Gunfire erupted at a beach resort rave in Mexico early Monday, leaving four people dead and at least nine others wounded, police said.

The shooting took place just after 2 a.m. as clubbers waited in line to attend the BPM Festival’s final night and more packed the dance party inside the Blue Parrot in the tourist haven of Playa del Carmen, about 40 miles south of Cancun. It’s unclear what sparked the incident during the annual dance music festival in its 10th year. A video shows terrified clubgoers cowering below tables as pounding music from “Psychedelic Trip” night continued inside the Blue Parrot. Others bolted through a street lined with nightclubs screaming “gun.”(nydailynews)…[+]

A woman who was stolen at birth 18 years ago met her biological parents for the first time Saturday in an emotional reunion at a South Carolina police station. Kamiyah Mobley, 18, spent 45 minutes with her birth parents Craig Aiken and Shanara Mobley at the Walterboro Police Department in the latest twist to a case that has stunned the nation. “I told her I was glad to see her and that I loved her,” Aiken told reporters afterward. “The first meeting was beautiful. It’s a feeling that you can’t explain.”(nydaillynews)…[+]

BRIDGETOWN– Stakeholders from the private and public sectors in Jamaica now have a better understanding of how sea water air conditioning (SWAC) technology can help reduce electricity costs. At the end of 2016, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) collaborated with New Leaf Power to host a study tour of Canada. During the trip, the group of 12 observed and learned about the operations of two alternative energy and eco-friendly air conditioning systems: the Toronto Deep Lake Water Cooling District and Emera Inc.’s cooling system in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Stakeholders from public sector organisations, including environmental agencies, collected information about the potential and challenges of the technology. Participants from private sector companies learned more about the system’s reliability of supply and the financial advantage of having a centralized district cooling network.

In the Caribbean, air conditioning accounts, on average, for 50 percent of the total energy consumption in commercial buildings, including hotels, offices and commercial shopping enterprises. SWAC is estimated to reduce electricity consumption for air conditioning by up to 90 percent.

Robert Wright, Managing Director of Jamaica-based New Leaf Power, noted that the study tour was another important step towards introducing this technology in the Caribbean.(CDB)…[+]

President-elect Donald Trump has canceled his holiday visit to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture — losing a chance for much-needed goodwill after his feud with a civil rights leader.

The incoming president, who spent this weekend waging a war of words with Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), had planned to visit the national museum in Washington, D.C. on Martin Luther King Day. But senior level transition sources told ABC News on Sunday the visit is off due to unspecified “scheduling issues.” Trump is now planning to visit the museum sometime after assuming office, his officials said. The museum did not immediately comment.(nydailynews)…[+]