Metro

Luigi Mangione will use a psychiatric defense at his upcoming trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a Manhattan judge revealed at a bombshell court hearing Wednesday.

The saga of the Gilgo Beach serial murders that haunted Long Island for more than three decades is set to come to a close Wednesday — when confessed killer Rex Heuermann is shipped of to prison for life.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an open lottery for ecstatic New York Knicks fans to get free tickets to a Championship Ceremony at City Hall after a celebratory ticker-tape parade.

Avrahim Appel, a prominent New Jersey rabbi, sexually assaulted a single mom — and even sent her a pic of his genitals, admitting, “Not great. But works” — before launching a cyber-smear campaign against her, court papers allege.

A violent brawl erupted after Iran and New Zealand’s World Cup match on Monday as Iranian pro-Shah and pro-regime protesters clashed.

The alleged California ringleader behind a failed terror attack on the White House’s UFC Freedom 250 event was identified in court documents as Michael Alan Thomas of Pinon Hills.

Lena Weissbrot — a Luigi Mangione fan girl cosplaying as an independent “journalist” — vulgarly snapped at a Post photographer

New Yorkers are getting creative with excuses to play hooky for the Knicks ticker-tape parade.

Harshita Nair and Mahial Sran, both of Fremont, were killed after being swept out to sea while napping at Bonny Doon Beach in Santa Cruz County.