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Six people - including five students and a security guard - were slashed and five have been arrested at a New York City charter school. Police responded to a call at approximately 12:43 pm on Wednesday afternoon, where they found six injured people at New Dawn Charter High School II at 89-25 161st St. in Jamaica, Queens. A fight reportedly broke out in the cafeteria on Wednesday, the Gothamist reported. Officers discovered at least five students who were slashed, according to a Citizen app alert. Two had cuts on their hands and another in the face when police arrived at...

An LIRR rider was slashed in the face on a train in Queens on Monday in a horrifying, caught-on-video attack — days after an armed straphanger launched violence that ended with himself shot in the head. Monday’s crime occurred when a 27-year-old man tried to board a Long Island Rail Road train at the Locust Manor station around 3:50 p.m. and a 32-year-old male suspect was blocking the entrance, a witness told ABC. The victim asked the guy to move and was able to eventually board the train. But he was soon approached by the suspect, who asked him if...

A Bronx mother of two who was groped, then slashed by an unhinged man on a rush-hour MTA bus called out President Biden and Mayor Eric Adams — saying it’s on them to regain “control” of the city. Stephanie Aquino, 33, told The Post that her harrowing ordeal had her praying that she’d see her 3-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter again. “I just started praying, saying, ‘God, allow me the opportunity to see my kids and go back home,'” Aquino said in a phone interview. “‘Also, allow me the opportunity, because I’m not going to jail over this guy. It’s...

Three men were slashed at a subway station in Corona, Queens early Sunday morning by a man who quickly fled the scene. Officers rushed to the 7 train station on Junction Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a stabbing on the northbound platform. Three men were slashed during the dispute, police told The Post.

'Public expenditures on the council and related forums have produced few benefits' President Trump, while still a candidate, promised that he would get a better deal for America. Or, in fact, better deals. Since he’s taken office, he’s talked about cutting funding for the United Nations, renegotiating the NAFTA trade deal. He already pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord. All of which have taken extensive discussion and defending. On Friday, he decided to get a better deal for the U.S. with a simple move: he simply canceled an entire federal program begun by President Obama. It was...

The fortunes of California's high-speed rail project, which would connect Southern California to the Bay Area with a 220mph train, took a big financial hit Thursday afternoon, when a congressional panel slashed the Federal Railroad Administration budget. The Obama administration had asked for $8 billion for fiscal 2012 for high-speed rail projects, including the one in California, as well as other passenger rail programs around the country. But the House Appropriations subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development on Thursday cut the request by nearly $7 billion, leaving money only to operate Amtrak and some smaller programs. House Republican leaders...

Judge: 'Your belief is that you carried out a duty to your God and you did so with no mercy' Gang to get at least 19 years behind bars for grievous bodily harm with intent Jihadi fanatics thought they had got away with it but were caught following suspicions of terrorist plot Popular teacher: Gary Smith, 38, has been left traumatised after he was attacked by four men in East London Popular teacher: Gary Smith, 38, has been left traumatised after he was attacked by four men in East London He was an ‘able, enthusiastic and popular’ religious education teacher...

English universities' teaching budgets were slashed today for the first time in a decade as part of savage government cuts to higher education. The cuts come amid unprecedented demand for places, with an expected seven applications for every place at a top university. Some £215m will be shaved off universities' teaching budgets in the academic year 2010-11, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), which funds universities on behalf of the government, said in a letter to vice-chancellors. The £4.7bn that institutions will receive for teaching is 1.6% less in real terms than the amount they received the year...

Julia Roberts is getting $15 million to make Eat, Pray, Love, but Scarlett Johansson was only offered $250,000 for Iron Man 2. Kim Masters on the tactics Hollywood is using to slash salaries. You’re Scarlett Johansson. You’re pretty and you’re pretty famous, too. And you’ve just been offered the part of the Black Widow in Iron Man 2! That’s got to be some payday, right? How about $250,000, which is what Marvel Studios offered Johansson and Mickey Rourke to be in the film? The stars negotiated the number up to something over $400,000. Still, it’s not hard to imagine that...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Attackers in southern Thailand slashed the necks of a couple, almost severing their heads in the latest killings attributed to Islamic separatists in the region, police said Friday. The couple, Jad Suwanchatri, 52, and his wife, Serm, 51, had stopped their motorcycle to clear a log from a road in Yala province when assailants shot Jad and then cut the throats of the couple, police Lt. Somporn Ritthirat said Friday. The couple's dog, which was in a sidecar, also was slashed to death, he said. The couple were rubber plantation workers, Buddhists and members of a...

Blair majority 'slashed' By George Jones, Political Editor (Filed: 06/05/2005) Tony Blair was heading back to No 10 early today but with his authority dented by the prospect of a substantially reduced majority. An exit poll announced after the polls closed at 10pm suggested that Labour had suffered a backlash from the Iraq war after the longest and most closely fought election campaign for more than a decade. Mr Blair, who is 52 today, is on course to enter the history books as the first Labour prime minister to win three successive elections. But the exit poll suggested a two...

A judge cut a flight attendant's award in a secondhand smoke lawsuit from $5.5 million to $500,000, saying the jury's award was not justified. TWA attendant Lynn French had argued that her sinus disease was caused by exposure to secondhand smoke in airliners. French, 56, of Calabasas, Calif., worked for 14 years before smoking was banned on domestic flights in 1990. She won her case against four major tobacco companies and was awarded $5.5 million in June. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Fredricka Smith reduced French's award Friday. "The court recognized that the evidence did not justify the award ... The ruling...