A twisted teen firebug set a sleeping stranger on fire aboard a Queens subway train early Friday, severely burning him, police sources said.

Christopher Jackson snuck up on his 30-year-old victim, who was dozing while listening to music on his headphones, as the G train approached its last stop at Court Square in Long Island City around 2:30 a.m., sources said. Jackson, 18, set the right arm of the victim’s jacket ablaze and slunk away, according to police source.

When Jackson arrived at Court Square, he was overheard by a transit worker boasting of the totally unprovoked attack on his cellphone, sources said. “I just lit someone on fire,” he said, according to sources.(nydailynews)…[+]

A Texas pastor with a controversial penchant for bashing Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and homosexuals will deliver a private sermon for Donald Trump and his family shortly before he is officially inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States.

Rev. Robert Jeffress, who fervently stumped for Trump on the campaign trail, leads the First Baptist Church in Dallas and announced Thursday evening that he will deliver the exclusive prayer session to Trump, President-elect Mike Pence and their respective families. “Honored to deliver sermon ‘When God Chooses a Leader’ for Trump/Pence private family service,” the pastor said over Twitter.CNN first reported on the private service, which will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street from the White House.(nydailynews)…[+]

El Chapo is headed to Brooklyn. A convoy of trucks with sirens believed to be transporting the infamous Mexican drug czar Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman pulled out of the Manhattan Correction Center around 7 a.m. Friday. He is due to face a federal judge in Brooklyn Friday afternoon after being extradited to the U.S. Thursday. He arrived at Manhattan Correction Complex around 11 p.m. Thursday after landing at Long Island MacArthur Airport on a flight from Ciudad Juarez, sources told the Daily News.Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. and Guzman is set to be arraigned around 2 p.m.

The notorious Sinaloa cartel head had been fighting his extradition for more than a year. The U.S. Justice Department has been working with Mexican authorities to get him north of the border to face charges for 12 murder conspiracies, drug trafficking and money laundering. “The Justice Department extends its gratitude to the Government of Mexico for their extensive cooperation and assistance in securing the extradition of Guzman Loera to the United States,” the agency said in a statement Thursday.(nydailynews)…[+]