A woman armed with knives stabbed two people in the center of Times Square on Monday afternoon, then moved toward NYPD officers while holding two blades before police shot her, authorities said.

The incident began shortly before 4:30 p.m. near West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue, where the woman, whom authorities described as emotionally disturbed, attacked a man and a woman, police confirmed to Fox 5 New York.

After the stabbings, police said, the armed woman ran north in the direction of an NYPD substation, where officers encountered her holding two knives.

Officers initially used a Taser in an effort to subdue the woman, but she kept advancing while armed, leading police to fire and strike her, officials said.

The two stabbing victims and the female suspect were hospitalized following the attack. Authorities said the victims and suspect were transported to hospitals, but their conditions were not immediately clear.

Police urged the public to avoid West 43rd Street and Seventh Avenue and warned of delays in the surrounding area as investigators descended on the scene.

Authorities said the incident does not appear to be terror-related.

It was not immediately clear whether any NYPD officers were injured during the incident.

Police are expected to hold a news conference later on Monday.

Union big’s trains of thought

John Samuelsen knows transit from the ground up. A subway track worker by trade, he now serves as international president of the Transport Workers Union of America, the nation’s largest airline union, representing 165,000 transportation workers.

“I oversee 100 unions from coast to coast, including in the Caribbean,” Samuelsen said, noting the TWU’s reach across major transit hubs. Its ranks include about 30,000 workers at American Airlines, 34,000 at Southwest Airlines, and members in cities such as New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, including those who keep the cable cars moving.

His connection to New York transit began early. “My first time on a subway was at Avenue U and East 16th Street,” he recalled. “I was about 8.” Samuelsen attended Nazareth High School in East Flatbush, in the working-class Irish neighborhood of southern Brooklyn where he still lives today — at the same address where his father grew up. By 1993, he said, he had discovered a skill that would shape his career: “I found that I was a good organizer.”

Pricing stays fare

Asked why riding the subway has become so expensive — compared with the days when a fare could feel almost as old as George Washington’s presidency and cost just a nickel — Samuelsen pushed back on the premise.

“Time marches on,” he said, arguing that New York City’s fare remains relatively affordable when measured against other transit systems around the country. He pointed to costs in several European cities, as well as regional systems closer to home, including the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North and New Jersey Transit.

“Just think, you can get on the system in Coney Island and take it up to Yankee Stadium for a flat fee, $3. It’s not that much money. What can you do for three bucks? You can’t get a slice of pizza for three bucks in the city anymore.”

What do people misunderstand about the subway? Everybody complains about it.

“The problem’s the internet, Twitter, Instagram, cellphones, everything instantly available. Systems are under scrutiny that they weren’t years ago. Five transit workers a week get assaulted on average in NYC. If five schoolteachers were assaulted each week, there’d be massive societal steps to end that plague.”

So what’s going to happen with the new Second Avenue subway?

“Congestion pricing made funding available to continue to build it northbound. Money that the MTA, subway and bus riders never saw before. Huge casino money, congestion pricing money, and there should be a massive citywide discussion about that.”

Railing against AI

And AI might eventually replace transit workers?

“We are in a constant battle against artificial intelligence. There are postmodern urbanists right here that conspire every day to eliminate workers in the transit system and replace them with robotic elements.”

Another question on another topic. Air traffic control.

“The system definitely needs massive investment. They must hire more air traffic controllers. And increase their pay to a good salary in order to retain them.

“Lots of times disputes or desires of working people are about work-life balance. It’s about having appropriate time off to rest. It’s about being able to have a day off to celebrate a child’s birthday or a confirmation or a graduation. That is all part of having a desire not to let the bosses work us to death or work us into a divorce.

“And so it’s not always about wages, it’s about quality of life and about that all-important work-life balance.”

Listen, the high price of gas is forcing people to change their driving habits. Everybody’s trying to save money. Even street gangs. They’re now restricting themselves to jog-by shootings.

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.

A woman armed with knives was fatally shot by New York City police on Monday after authorities said she launched a violent stabbing attack in Times Square that left one person dead. 

The woman, who had not been publicly identified, allegedly stabbed a female victim and a male victim shortly before 4.30pm near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, one of Manhattan’s busiest tourist corridors, sources told the New York Post.  

After the attack, she reportedly ran north in the direction of an NYPD substation, where responding officers moved in and confronted her.

Footage captured at the scene appeared to show the woman holding large knives in both hands as at least six NYPD officers encircled her, several with guns drawn, while panicked tourists screamed and rushed through the crowded Times Square area.

The suspect, seen wearing a pink T-shirt, jeans and a cross-body bag, then began swinging her arms in wide motions. Moments later, an officer moved toward her before one gunshot rang out, followed quickly by two more.

Still, the woman charged at cops, prompting officers to fire two more times. 

The video then ended with the woman lying on the ground as officers race to handcuff her, before apparently realizing she was shot and beginning CPR.

The woman and her two victims were then rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where the suspect and one of her victims, a female tourist, were pronounced dead, according to AMNY.

Meanwhile, authorities recovered the woman’s weapon, with photos from the scene showing officers carrying a large kitchen knife. 

The incident had initially been reported as a knifepoint robbery, but officers now believe the emotionally-disturbed woman had no clear motive for the attack, ABC 7 reports.

A witness at the scene said he recorded the moment with his smart glasses and that the woman was allegedly armed with two knives. 

‘She ran by me at the corner and she had two knives in her hands,’ they told PIX11.

‘She ran down, the cops went by, they surrounded her, talked to her for like five minutes.’ 

The person said the woman was tased by officers, but when she rushed toward them, officers shot her with a gun. 

‘They shot her twice,’ the witness told the outlet. 

Construction worker Jorge Disla also told the New York Daily News how he was heading home when he came upon the scene and recorded on his phone as the woman swung a knife in each hand.

‘The police tried to speak with her,’ he recounted. ‘They were shouting “Drop the knives!”‘ 

Witness Linda Ruiz also shared what she saw in the moments before police arrived on scene.

‘I saw a guy bleeding profusely from his right leg,’ she told the Daily News. ‘He was gushing blood, saying “I need help. Help me.”‘ 

‘I went to get a cop on the corner and there was another lady on the floor,’ Ruiz continued. ‘She was stabbed in the back or in the chest, I couldn’t tell.

‘There was a lot of blood,’ Ruiz noted. ‘She wasn’t conscious. The police were trying to resuscitate her, but she wasn’t moving. It was horrible.’ 

The NYPD has urged people to avoid the area while they investigate. 

Sources told PIX11 that they don’t believe the incident is terror-related. 

The incident comes about two weeks after a 54-year-old man was fatally shot by NYPD officers after he ran toward them with a butcher’s knife. 

At the time, officers were responding to reports of an assault inside a building on the Lower East Side. 

Breaking news, updates to follow.  

The U.S. Navy is working on a new ultra-long-range missile intended to destroy hostile aircraft before they can move close enough to endanger American fighter jets or aircraft carriers.

The service revealed the program on Aug. 22, identifying the next-generation AIM-424 LRAAM by its nickname, “MALICE.”

Built for air-to-air combat, the missile is meant to be launched from a jet and strike enemy aircraft or drones at exceptionally long distances.

The goal is to give U.S. pilots the ability to spot a threat on radar, fire from well outside close-contact range and eliminate the target before it can pose an immediate danger, a capability that could improve pilot survivability.

“LRAAM sustains the Department’s first look, first shot, first kill advantage by providing our aviators greater reach, greater survivability, and greater tactical flexibility in the air-to-air fight,” the Navy said.

The missile is designed to increase the “range, lethality, and combat effectiveness for Marine and Naval aviation forces,” officials added.

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Its range is listed as “in excess” of 250 nautical miles, or roughly 287 statute miles. That is a massive distance for an air-to-air missile, allowing jets to protect an entire fleet from far over the horizon.

At 13.5 feet long and weighing 1,500 pounds, the missile is significantly larger and heavier than standard medium-range air-to-air missiles. In comparison, the AIM-120 AMRAAM weighs about 335 pounds, underscoring the size of the propulsion system needed to propel the LRAAM to extreme distances.

The missile is also equipped with a blast-fragmentation warhead, meaning it does not necessarily have to score a direct physical hit. Instead, it detonates near the target, sending fragments outward to destroy or disable the aircraft.

Officials said the missile is compatible with aircraft across multiple generations, including fourth and fifth-generation fighters as well as future sixth-generation aircraft.

The LRAAM is being developed by Raytheon, one of the U.S. military’s primary defense contractors.