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New Yorkers are getting fed-up with Gov. Kathy Hochul, whose job approval plunged a net of eight points from last month — with voters citing the Empire State’s sky-high cost of living and the migrant crisis as their top concerns, a new poll shows. Those quality-of-life issues appear to be what dragged down the Democrat, according to the Siena College poll out Tuesday that saw Hochul’s favorability rating sink to 41-46%, down from 45-42% in January, and her job approval rating drop to 48-47%, down from 52-43%. Some 29% of registered New York voters polled by the upstate college said...

Police arrested the boyfriend of a woman who fell 100 feet to her death during a clifftop marriage proposal in Turkey — as authorities revealed that they discovered signs of a violent struggle. Nizamettin Gursu was arrested five months after his 39-year-old girlfriend, Yesim Demir, plummeted off a cliff in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, on July 6, Newsflash reported Wednesday. Gursu told authorities Demir had said “Yes” but as he was grabbing celebratory food and drinks from his car, he heard a blood-curdling scream — and returned to the romantic picnic site to find his bride-to-be had tumbled...

Wall Street’s massive selloff on Friday plunged the Dow into a bear market as investors appear resigned to the fact that the Fed has abandoned hopes for a “soft landing” and will continue to aggressively raise interest rates to fight inflation — even if it means a deeper recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 700 points, while the S&P 500 dropped nearly 100, shedding 2.65% from its pre-market starting point. The tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite plunged more than 300 points, or 2.75%. The Dow is now 20% off its all-time high — which would officially place it in...

A 15-year-old boy reportedly plunged to his death off a cruise ship that was returning to Miami last Wednesday – prompting a chilling series of “man overboard” announcements. The teen fell from the MSC Seashore at about 7:30 p.m. in what the company told Fox News was an apparent suicide. The cruise ship was at the tail end of a five-day journey in the Caribbean.

President Joe Biden’s approval rating has plunged to a record low after Rasmussen Reports recorded a “new low single-overnight approval result” in his job approval history, nearly two days after the commander-in-chief left behind Americans in Afghanistan. “Last night we recorded a new low single-overnight approval result in President Biden’s job approval history and today he will set a record low in our 3-day rolling approval avg,” Rasmussen Reports announced on Wednesday:

U.S. stocks fell more than 1 percent on Thursday, pressured by continued uncertainty over the timing of a rate hike and low oil prices. ( Tweet This ) "The market has really taken a pessimistic stance vis-a-vis the Fed," said Dave Schiegoleit, a senior portfolio manager with The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank in Los Angeles. "I think we're hearing comments from people taking a dovish stance that the Fed could cramp the fragile growth we're seeing," he said, noting that he expects a rate hike in September. On the hawkish side, "if the Fed holds off then that...

President Barack Obama’s job approval among American voters drops to a new low, a negative 38 – 57 percent, as the outlook for Democrats running for Congress and the U.S. Senate fades also, according to a national poll released today. He even gets a negative 41 – 49 percent among voters 18 to 29 years old and a lackluster 50 – 43 percent approval among Hispanic voters. The president’s job approval compares to a negative 39 – 54 percent score in a November 12 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Today, Obama gets negative scores of 6 – 92...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of new talks, President Barack Obama is plunging ahead in search of a nuclear agreement with Iran despite outright opposition from American allies in the Middle East and deep skepticism, if not open hostility, from Congress. Iran is pressing ahead in its own way, trying to make a deal more likely to ease painful economic sanctions without losing its own hardliners at home. There was a fresh sign of efforts to make headway as negotiators from Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany prepared for Wednesday's new round of...

TOKYO — Honda bucked expectations of losses in the first quarter, today posting a 7.5 billion yen ($79.8 million) profit and raising forecasts for the full year on optimism auto sales will improve. The results for the April-June period were better than the flood of red ink some analysts had forecast though profit was still down 96 percent, battered by slumping car sales and a strong yen, which offset cost cuts. Honda made a net profit of 173.3 billion yen in the same period of 2008.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday plunged into Middle East peace diplomacy on his first full day in office and looked poised to order the closing of the internationally condemned military detention camp at Guantanamo within a year. Acting swiftly the day after his inauguration, Obama -- who had vowed a bolder pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace than his predecessor George W. Bush -- called Israeli and Arab leaders to commit to "active engagement" and to promise help in consolidating the Gaza ceasefire. "He pledged that the United States would do its part to make these efforts successful,...

BEIJING (AFP) - The Beijing Olympics were plunged into another controversy on Wednesday as China announced a backflip on Internet freedoms for the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games. China's decision to reverse a pledge on allowing unfettered web access proved an embarrassment for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which had repeatedly said foreign press would not face any Internet curbs in Beijing. It was also the latest in a long line of issues to have tarnished the run-up to the Olympics, which start on August 8, following controversies over pollution, human rights and terrorism threats. Beijing Olympic organising...

DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Shares of Mirant took a dive Tuesday after it was reported that some of the power generator's bondholders are planning to derail a debt exchange offer that the company needs to complete to avoid bankruptcy. On June 2, Mirant (MIR: news, chart, profile) announced a plan to exchange $1.45 billion in unsecured debt for new secured notes with later maturity dates. The Atlanta-based company is also trying to refinance $3.45 billion of bank debt. See archived story. In recent dealings, shares plunged 23 cents, or 9.1 percent, to $2.31 on heavy volume of 14.3 million. Citing unnamed...

43 perish in Sohawa road crashUpdated on 6/3/2002 11:03:55 AM  ~~ F.P. Report ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN: At least 43 persons were killed and ten others seriously injured when a passenger bus fell over a bridge near Sohawa on GT Road early Sunday.The bus was on its way to Islamabad from Lahore when it met with the accident near Sohawa, nearly 125 km east of federal capital, Islamabad at 5.30 am. The accident is said to have been caused by over-speeding. Police says most of the passengers were on their way to Islamabad to attend the annual Urs of Bari Imam.  Thirty-three...