A 22-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in a Queens apartment early Thursday morning, police said. Arnold Aguilar was found in an apartment on 97th St. near Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven at about 12:47 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the head, according to cops. Aguilar was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where he died from his wounds, officials said. No arrests have been made, police said Thursday morning.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

An ultra-nationalist Putin-ally says Americans must vote for Donald Trump this November — since voting for Hillary Clinton would set off “Hiroshimas and Nagasakis everywhere.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky asserted Trump is the only candidate who could soothe relations between Moscow and Washington, spurring further suspicion about what financial ties the billionaire mogul might have in the eastern superpower. “Relations between Russia and the United States can’t get any worse,” Zhirinovsky told Reuters during an interview in Moscow. “Americans voting for a president on Nov. 8 must realize that they are voting for peace on Planet Earth if they vote for Trump. But if they vote for Hillary it’s war. It will be a short movie.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Four young men, including the son of a councilwoman-elect who recently preached about parenting, have been charged with assault in the beating of an Alabama high school student who used social media to support police and the “Blue Lives Matter” movement. The suspects, all recent Sylacauga High School students, were arrested Tuesday following the Sept. 30 attack against 17-year-old Brian Ogle. The teen had suffered serious head injuries after responding to students wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts by posting his pro-police views.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A former executive at Ivanka Trump’s clothing line said Monday that employees at the company were not provided with a formal paid maternity leave policy and had to fight “long and hard” for one — the latest contradiction for one of the most prominent talking points for the GOP nominee‘s daughter.

Marissa Velez Kraxberger, who formerly worked as the chief marketing officer for the younger Trump’s eponymous clothing company, wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that she nearly fell “ill” after seeing a TV commercial in which Ivanka and her father touted the campaign’s paid maternity leave proposal.

Velez Kraxberger recalled she was offered a job by Ivanka Trump years earlier when she was pregnant and when she “asked about maternity leave, (Ivanka) said she would have to think about it, that at Trump they don’t offer maternity leave and that she went back to work just a week after having her first child.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The pilot of a small plane that crashed near an aerospace factory in Connecticut, killing a passenger, reportedly confessed that the crash wasn’t an accident.

The FBI is now investigating whether the Tuesday crash in East Hartford was intentional, law enforcement officials told The New York Times. The Piper PA 34 crashed near a Pratt & Whitney around 3:40 p.m., on its final approach to Hartford-Brainard Airport. Officials said the small plane took off from the airport’s flight school.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A gangbanger whose stray bullet killed a girl on a Queens bus was sentenced Wednesday to at least 40 years in prison for cutting down the youngster, who was on her way home from a 14th birthday party. The 40-years-to-life sentence for Kevin McClinton came just days after young D’Aja Robinson was remembered by city leaders who named a stretch of Sutphin Blvd. in her honor. “It has been just over three years since this youngster was senselessly shot and killed,” said Queens DA Richard Brown.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A face-tattooed California couple has been jailed for torturing and killing a 2-year-old girl — and then attempting to cross the Mexican border with her dead body in a duffel bag, prosecutors said. Mercy Mary Becerra, 43, and her husband Johnny Lewis Hartley, 39, were arraigned in a San Diego County courtroom Friday on felony torture, murder and assault charges for causing the death of the infant, who’s only identified as “Angelina W.” in court documents obtained by KFMB. Becerra and Hartley were ordered held in lieu of $3.2 million bail.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

President Obama is shooting for the stars—and hopes to put humans on Mars in at least 15 years. In an op-ed published Tuesday on CNN, Obama put forth his ambitious plan to send Americans to the Red Planet as soon as the 2030s.

“We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s story in space: sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time,” Obama wrote in a groundbreaking column. Obama goes on to outline how a “cooperation between government and private innovators” will be necessary to achieve this revolutionary mission.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The devastated family of fatally-battered Zymere Perkins gave the 6-year-old an emotional and tear-filled funeral Friday in Brooklyn.

Zymere’s tiny body, dressed in a white suit and bow tie, lay in an open white satin-lined ivory casket with a white veil over the open top half. A white teddy bear, holding a red cushion heart, was propped by the boy’s head and three massive floral arrangements surrounded the altar below the casket. His mother, Geraldine Perkins, 26, asserted her innocence in a jailhouse interview on Rikers Island, where she’s being held for endangering the welfare of a child.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Four men were shot and wounded inside a Brooklyn bodega by masked assailants early Saturday, police said. At least one of the victims and his attackers had just spilled out of Catch 22, a bar across the street, when shots rang out in the M&S Mini Market on Third Ave. near 73rd St. in Bay Ridge about 4 a.m., according to police sources.

“A customer came in to buy a pack of cigarettes. Then he’s walking out and two guys just attacked him,” a clerk at the deli told the Daily News. “I heard shots and jumped down onto the floor. There must have been six or seven shots.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]