NEW YORK — A 19-year-old Queens man has been arrested after he allegedly plotted an ISIS-inspired terror attack in the city.
According to WABC, the unidentified teenager ‘exchanged texts with undercover investigators about his interest in conducting a possible knife attack in Queens.’
“There is no current public safety issue as a result of the arrest,” the U.S.

The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens has opened to traffic.
The span opened early Thursday.
A ceremony on Wednesday night included a light show with music from Billy Joel via satellite from Madison Square Garden.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is gambling his future on the audacious proposition that he can blunt an effort to halt his Brexit plan by simply suspending “the mother of all parliaments” for key weeks ahead of the Oct.
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New York City’s largest police union says the mayor and police commissioner should lose their jobs over the firing last week of an officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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The House Oversight and Reform Committee is objecting to the Trump administration’s decision to block committee staffers from conducting additional visits at 11 border detention facilities after visits last week revealed serious problems.
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An Ohio man has been charged with threatening a Jewish community center in a video police say shows him shooting a rifle, federal authorities announced Thursday.
Police in New Middletown in northeastern Ohio arrested 20-year-old James Reardon on Aug.

U.S. long-term mortgage rates ticked up slightly this week, yet they remain near historic lows.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan rose to 3.58% from 3.55% last week.
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(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com)
It is truly a remarkable idea – that every single one of us should remember forever.
Recently, a Ger Tzedek told me that he had come across a scholarly sefer that was somewhat depressing to him.
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A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didn’t commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence on a crime-scene cigarette butt will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her lawyer said Wednesday.
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Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida as it pushed over open waters Thursday after leaving limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
The U.S.
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