Inside the race to deport a 94-year-old Nazi guard

Lawmakers and Jewish groups have called on the White House to take action, in a race to have Jakiw Palij face justice. NEW YORK - The last surviving Nazi collaborator ordered to leave American soil lives in a redbrick Queens rowhouse on a bustling stretch of 89th Street, just around the corner from a Chipotle with a distant view of the Manhattan skyline.

Pressure on White House to deport 94-year-old Nazi guard

The view down an alley off the Queens street where Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij lives in New York. Must credit: Photo by Celeste Sloman for The Washington Post The view down an alley off the Queens street where Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij lives in New York.

Unsealed court docs: Luthmann’s alleged death threats, ‘La Cosa Nostra’ connections

Flamboyant lawyer Richard Luthmann may fancy himself a champion of the little guy, but federal prosecutors say he is little more than a "violent criminal and fraudster" who, along with accomplices, bilked customers in a scrap-metal business they had formed, had a victim threatened at gunpoint, and took advantage of a blind client in a bid to hide their scheme. Luthmann, 38, who two years ago famously sought to resolve a civil lawsuit through "trial by combat," was arrested Friday morning by the FBI on a slew of charges, including kidnapping, kidnapping conspiracy, money laundering, brandishing a firearm to commit a crime, aggravated identity theft and extortion conspiracy.

Controversial Gitmo art exhibit closes after Snapchat threat

A woman looks at paintings made by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at an art exhibition at John Jay College. John Jay College will be closing a controversial art exhibit on Monday - featuring paintings and sculptures created by Guantanamo detainees - after someone made a "threat" on Snapchat, officials said.

The MTA apparently has no idea how they’re going to handle the…

As you undoubtedly know, the City and the MTA plan to close the L Train for nearly all of 2019 and part of 2020. We're just 16 months away, and they still haven't announced how they're going to handle the 15-month closure, which will affect an estimated 200,000 to 250,000 riders.

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s financial bureau appointment

A federal credit union in New York City has sued President Donald Trump, saying his acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is "trying to minimize its existence." The Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.

Success Academy’s Radical Educational Experiment

One of the most celebrated educational experiments in history was performed by James Mill, the British historian, on his eldest son, John Stuart Mill, who was born outside London in 1806. John began learning Greek when he was three, and read Herodotus and other historians and philosophers before commencing Latin, at the age of seven.

Terror Becomes a Teachable Moment

After a man drove a rented truck down a bike path near the West Side Highway, students in the neighborhood tried to make sense of the attack. After a man drove a rented truck down a bike path along the West Side Highway on Halloween afternoon, murdering eight people and injuring twelve, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at nearby Stuyvesant High School, followed "shelter-in" protocol.

The Latest: Trump calls for ‘Merit Based immigration’

A police officer stands guard next to bicycles lie on a bike path at the crime scene after a motorist earlier Tuesday drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people, Wednesday, N... . Bicycles lay on a bike path at the crime scene where an investigator works after a motorist earlier Tuesday drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 201... .

Suspect identified, note declaring allegiance to ISIS found after truck attack leaves 8 dead

A 29-year-old man driving a rental truck plowed down people on a Manhattan bike path Tuesday in what authorities described as a terrorist attack that killed eight and injured 11 before the suspect was shot and arrested by police. A sunny fall day along the Hudson River erupted in chaos just around the time students were getting out from nearby Stuyvesant High School, when a rented Home Depot truck turned on to the bike path along the West Side Highway.

Hillary Clinton says ‘I have a great chapter about Russia’ in my book …

Hillary Clinton says 'I have a great chapter about Russia' in my book when asked about Mueller indictments Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a signing of her new book 'What happened' at Barnes & Noble bookstore at Union Square in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly - RC121E6CA5A0 Former Democratic presidential nominee and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday brushed off questions about the unsealing of the first indictments under special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, pointing reporters to her latest book for comment.

Shock, anger over Weinstein at NY women filmmakers event

Anger, shock, unity and solidarity: Those were the prevailing emotions on Tuesday at a Manhattan event for women filmmakers, writers and actors, where the Harvey Weinstein scandal wasn't far from anyone's mind. "I'm mad as hell!" Jane Rosenthal, executive chair of Tribeca Enterprises, said to the crowd.

Ex-Rep. Grimm: All NYC Restaurants Pay Workers Off the Books

Former Staten Island congressman Michael Grimm is gunning for a congressional comeback after serving time for tax evasion. He's counting on two things to get his old job back: the loyalty of his constituents, who he served after Sandy, and the popularity of Donald Trump in his neck of the woods.

Steve Bannon backs ex-con Grimm in NY Republican race

Former White House senior adviser and conservative firebrand Steve Bannon may once again shakeup the Republican Party by supporting and functioning as an outside adviser for a controversial candidate to defeat an establishment Republican congressman in a district that covers the New York City borough of Staten Island, FOX Business has learned. Bannon met Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with former Rep. Michael Grimm, a Republican who held the New York's 11 congressional district seat that covers most of Staten Island until 2015, when he was sentenced to seven months in federal prison on tax evasion charges.

Sleep apnea went undiagnosed in engineers in 2 train crashes

The engineers of two commuter trains that slammed into New York City-area stations in the last year, killing one person and injuring more than 200 others, were suffering from undiagnosed sleep apnea and have no memory of the crashes, according to investigative documents made public Thursday. Both trains were going more than double the speed limit and crashed at stations that had been exempted from federal regulations requiring automatic speed controls that could've slowed or stopped them.