WikiLeaks next mission might be Donald Trump’s taxes.

HBO’s Bill Maher asked WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange Friday night about his group’s release of Democratic National Committee e-mails days before the convention. “Why don’t you hack into Donald Trump’s tax returns?” the GOP-hating talk-show host queried. “Well, we’re working on it,” Assange replied. But WikiLeaks on Saturday morning made a U-turn. “Claim is a joke from a comedy show. We are ‘working on’ encouraging whistleblowers,”WikiLeaks tweeted.

The nonprofit journalistic organization published thousands of e-mails from top Democratic officials, showing the party tried to undermine Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primary race. The leaked missives led to the resignation of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and spokesman Luis Miranda.(nypost.com)…[+]

A former comrade-in-arms of US Army Capt. Humayun Khan, whose Muslim parents have been engaged in a bitter feud with Donald Trump, has joined a growing chorus of people calling the GOP nominee unfit for the Oval Office.

Miles Smith, 37, a Texas-born Australian who served in the same unit as Khan in Iraq – and heard the suicide blast that killed him – called Trump a threat to national security. “He (Trump) wants this to go away,” Smith told The West Australian. “I’m going to do what I can here to kick the ball forward, continue their (the Khans’) message and stand up for them. They are better citizens than he is.”

Trump has come under fire for his reaction to a powerful speech made by Khan’s father, Khizr, during last month’s Democratic National Convention, when he denounced the nominee’s calls to ban Muslims from entering the US.(nypost.com)…[+]

It may have been priceless to Jackie Robinson, but a New York auctioneer hopes to get $400,000 for a Brooklyn Dodgers cap that was specially padded to protect the man who broke baseball’s color barrier from beanball throwing racist pitchers.

The royal-blue “B” cap looks like any other Bums lid of the time, but for the inner lining that’s fortified with a fiberglass-and-cloth composite that gave Robinson some extra protection from pitches aimed at his skull. “It was a special hat for him. It has a helmet liner to protect him from beanings from racist players who would throw the ball at his head,” said Lelands chairman Josh Evans. “This is ancient, early baseball technology.”

The hat is on display at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Atlantic City this weekend, with hopes to sell it by Sunday. The price tag is a firm but not deal-breaking figure, sellers said. The cap belongs to a private collector who purchased it in the 1990s from widow Rachel Robinson, Evans said.(nypost.com)…[+]

One of the American hostages who was released the day the United States sent $400 million to Iran said his plane to freedom was not allowed to take off until “another plane” arrived in Tehran, according to a report.

Pastor Saeed Abedini, who was among four Americans released this past Jan. 17, told Fox Business he wound up waiting for an extended time for the second plane to reach the Iranian capital and was never told why the arriving aircraft was so important.

“I just remember the night at the airport sitting for hours and hours there, and I asked police, ‘Why are you not letting us go?’ ” Abedini said. “He said, ‘We are waiting for another plane so if that plane doesn’t come, we never let [you] go.’ ”It was not clear if the second plane was the unmarked aircraft holding palettes of euros, Swiss francs and other currencies.(nypost.com)…[+]

LAGOS, Nigeria  — Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have a new leader who is threatening to bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims, according to an interview published Wednesday by the Islamic State group.

He also says there is a Western plot to Christianize the region and has accused charities of using their aid for that purpose, according to a SITE Intelligence Group translation of an interview published Wednesday in the Islamic State newspaper al-Nabaa.(nypost.com)…[+]

An anguished Queens dad was the first to find the body of his murdered daughter just off a path near Howard Beach where the pair often ran together, authorities said Wednesday.

“He’s traumatized,” a family friend said of Philip Vetrano, 60, who discovered the body of his daughter, Karina, after she’d been sexually assaulted and then strangled during a solo jog. “This is too much for them.”Cops are investigating whether a vagrant may have hit the 30-year-old over the head with an object as she was running, then attacked her after she was rendered unconscious, police sources said.(nypost.com)…[+]

A wealthy Greenwich Village TV producer played an unexpected game of who-wore-it-better with the housekeeper she fired — when she discovered the woman had stolen her clothes and then posed in them for photos on Facebook.

Amy Pack, 35, had already fired Jasmin Figueroa, 34, from her home at 1 Fifth Ave. for ruining a load of laundry by mixing whites and colors and then lying about it, she told jurors at the worker’s theft trial that concluded Wednesday.

But the real shock for Pack came a few weeks later when she found $1,000 worth of her designer clothes missing. She did some online sleuthing and found snaps of Figueroa on Facebook wearing her navy silk J.Crew dress, her Tory Burch sweater, her lace romper and a tan belt.

The maid topped off the ensemble with a foam Statue of Liberty hat, almost as if it were a taunt.With the photo evidence, Figueroa was found guilty Wednesday of petit larceny in Manhattan Criminal Court, and Judge Ann Scherzer sentenced the sobbing housekeeper to 60 days in jail.(nypost.com)…[+]

The beloved 85-year-old priest murdered by jihadists in his church last week was mourned by thousands of people at his funeral Tuesday amid tight security.

Mourners filled Rouen Cathedral to bid farewell to Rev. Jacques Hamel, who was knifed to death at the altar of his church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray as he led mass on July 26. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve attended the service, during which Hamel’s coffin was carried through the “Door of Mercy” and placed on an ornate rug before the altar, Reuters reported.(nypost.com)…[+]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash-landed at Dubai’s main airport on Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East’s busiest airport. Dubai authorities said all passengers were evacuated safely.

Dubai-based Emirates said the accident happened as Flight EK521 was arriving from the southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram. The airline gave no details on the fate of those onboard. The Dubai government’s official media office said on Twitter that all passengers were “evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far,” however.(nypost.com)…[+]

The Obama administration quietly shipped $400 million stacked on wooden pallets in an unmarked plane to Iran in January — just as Tehran was releasing four Americans who had been detained there, according to a report.

The huge cash load represented the first payment of a $1.7 billion debt that Iran, at an international tribunal in The Hague, claimed it was owed over a failed 1979 arms deal signed before the fall of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Tuesday night.

The Obama administration was accused Tuesday night of making the cash-for-hostages deal by timing the payout to the release — but US officials said the money was simply part of settling the nearly 40-year-old debt under the terms of the historic nuclear agreement hammered out in 2015.(nypost.com)…[+]