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An off-duty NYPD detective shot a man who was breaking into his Long Island home early Saturday, according to police and sources. The break-in happened at 3:30 a.m. at the detective’s Fifth Avenue home in West Babylon, according to the Suffolk County Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. The detective, who works at the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, grabbed his gun and fired one shot, hitting the intruder in the eye, sources said. The intruder did not have a gun, but yelled, “I will kill you,” according to sources.

Democrats in the House and Senate have proposed legislation that would carve out $60 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research firearm safety and gun violence prevention over the next six years. The bill is likely to draw opposition from Republicans, who have rejected the idea that gun violence is something that needs to be treated as a disease or a public health issue that can be studied by the CDC. President Obama lifted a ban on federal research on gun violence in 2013, but the CDC has faced funding obstacles since then, which has prevented...