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Daniel Penny’s fate is being decided in a New York City courtroom this week. He’s the former Marine who is being charged with murder after he subdued a mentally ill, drugged-up man who was threatening passengers on a subway car.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he believes President-elect Donald Trump is in danger as he awaits his Inauguration this coming January. "What was most striking ... was not even that absolutely uncivilized means of struggle were used against Trump, absolutely uncivilized, up to and including attempted murder, and more than once,” Putin said at a press conference in Kazakhstan Thursday. He then added ominously, "By the way, in my opinion, he is not safe now." Taking questions for over an hour before departing from the CTSO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) Summit, he lambasted how Trump was treated in the run-up...

A straphanger was slugged in the face by an irate seatmate on a Manhattan-bound subway — but he managed to wrestle the “little b–ch” to the ground until cops could intervene. Alexander Rakitin, 42, was riding the N Train to his Manhattan finance job Monday morning when he sat down next to 34-year-old Timothy Barbee. As the train took off, the car jolted causing Rakitin’s knee to jostle Barbee’s — which set the alleged assailant off.

Delivery drivers in the South Bay say they're increasingly worried about becoming robbery targets. It's happening enough that at least one company, Core Mart, is now hiring armed guards to escort its drivers. ... Flavio Lopez works for another delivery company and said he wishes he had a guard or at least a second person to help him keep an eye on the merchandise. Lopez hasn’t been robbed, but he has had run-ins downtown. "Stuff you gotta deal with downtown," he said. "It is what it is." Darrell Cortez, a retired San Jose police officer who now works in corporate...