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The Venezuelan migrant charged with shooting two NYPD cops was recruited by a gang coordinator to join a Big Apple robbery crew -- and was urged to shoot cops back home, sources told The Post.

Bernardo Castro Mata, the Venezuelan migrant accused of shooting two NYPD cops, was charged with two counts of attempted murder and a slew of other raps Tuesday.

New York police said 34 people were in custody after anti-Israel demonstrators took over the Brooklyn Museum.

At least 15 crates of live chickens were found in the streets of Brooklyn early Monday morning after falling off a poultry truck, according to police and videos taken from the scene.

A network of Jewish alumni from Columbia University sent a scathing letter to President Minouche Shafik for allowing anti-Israel protesters to continue to invade campus -- warning that violence against Jewish students may be imminent.

Joan Behan, 87, who was run over by her own car Wednesday, had been sitting and praying in the vehicle in her driveway for 20 minutes before the deadly accident.

An armed security guard at a federal building in Manhattan that houses ICE and FBI offices sexually assaulted a man who was seeking asylum protection last May, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

A man was shot during a dispute at a Queens smoke shop, police said.

The cops closed in on the suspect, who was carrying a machete on his back, and placed him under arrest without incident, the sources said.

A new study suggests born rats crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent rivals.