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A woman plunged to her death from a hotel rooftop bar in Times Square Wednesday afternoon, police said. The 26-year-old woman was “seen jumping” from the 54th-floor bar of the Hyatt Centric Times Square New York just before 3:30 p.m., according to the NYPD. She plummeted 27 floors and landed on a 27th-floor balcony below, cops said. Emergency responders found the woman unconscious and unresponsive on the balcony and pronounced her dead at the scene. The city medical examiner will determine the official cause of death. A 26-year-old woman fell to her death from atop the 54th-floor bar of the…

Alberta hospitals have had more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients for more than two weeks, according to the latest coronavirus data released by the province on Wednesday. It’s the first release of COVID data in two weeks when, on Oct. 5, Dr. Deena Hinshaw tweeted Alberta Health was running into a “data flow problem.”As of Oct. 10, there were 1,014 in Alberta hospitals, an increase of 34 from the previous reporting period two weeks ago. ICU patients are down eight to 31 in the same period.But data obtained by Global News showed Alberta hospitals had closer to 1,100 COVID patients on…

A Florida man is charged with kidnapping after he stole a truck with two young children inside, authorities said Monday. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Pazmino Alvarez was flagged down in Tampa Monday evening by a man who said his truck had just been stolen with his two children – ages 4 and 8 – inside.  Deputy Alvarez pursued the allegedly stolen 2011 white Chevrolet Silverado and conducted a traffic stop “within just a few minutes,” the sheriff’s deputy said in a press release. SUSPECTED MISSOURI DOG-COLLAR KIDNAPPING RAPIST MAY HAVE MORE VICTIMSThe sheriff’s office identified the suspect as 37-year-old Kevin Smith.…

Not wasting any time. Kyle Richards, Garcelle Beauvais, Erika Jayne, Lisa Rinna, Crystal Kung Minkoff, Dorit Kemsley and Sutton Stracke kicked off The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 12 reunion on Wednesday, October 12. While Diana Jenkins was physically missing from the taping, which went down last month, because she was “not feeling well,” Kyle’s Halloween costar Jamie Lee Curtis made a cameo to deliver pumpkins carved with their faces on them. The actress appeared on an episode earlier in the season to promote her charity — My Hand In Yours — which she revealed on Wednesday gave the…

Neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency had any corroboration for allegations included in the anti-Trump dossier that was used to justify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant and its renewals to monitor Trump campaign aide Carter Page, an FBI official testified on the second day of the Igor Danchenko trial.Special Counsel John Durham, who has been investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe since 2019, led questioning of FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten on Tuesday, the first day of the trial, and continued on Wednesday. Auten was the first witness in the trial of Danchenko, the Russian…

Qantas is set to post a pre-tax profit of $1.2-1.3 billion profit in this half-year running from July to December, says Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd. “It’s a massive turnaround for the airline which lost more than seven billion dollars in pre-tax losses since the start of the pandemic,” Mr Boyd told Sky News Australia.“It’s all due to Australian consumers wanting to take these holidays, go overseas again and travel and there’s been a lot of international travel over the past few months.” Source: Sky News

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s campaign is drawing millions of dollars in contributions tied to real estate power brokers seeking or doing business with the state — including donors salivating to develop a prized vacant Hudson Yards parcel across from the Jacob Javits Convention Center, records show. Donahue “Don” Peebles, one of the largest minority builders in New York, plans to resubmit a plan to develop the vacant site on 11th Avenue known as “Site K” when the Hochul-controlled Empire State Development solicits new bids some time after the election. Peebles, his wife, Katrina, and son, Roy III, donated $15,000 apiece for…

The market for non fungible tokens (NFTs) is in flux. Trading volumes have collapsed since the start of the year as the crypto winter rolls on. In the past 30 days alone, the average price of a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT — think monkey avatars with sailor hats and gold teeth — has dropped by a fifth according to blockchain tracker DappRadar. The price of ApeCoin, the cryptocurrency linked to Bored Apes, has fallen 80 per cent since May. Some companies once enthusiastic to hitch their wagon to the latest tech buzzword are shelving plans. Assassin’s Creed video game…

US-NEPAL RELATIONS But that status looked set to waver when Nepal’s parliament ratified a key agreement in February that drew it closer to the United States. Through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Nepal Compact, the US pledged US$500 million for roads and energy infrastructure development in the landlocked country. But the move received much opposition as it was viewed as a way for the US to use the Himalayan nation as a tool to counter Chinese influence. There were also concerns that the pact could eventually compromise Nepal’s sovereignty. The MCC Nepal Compact was eventually signed after the US government…

Two fishermen who were kicked out of a Lake Erie walleye tournament late last month and ignited a cheating scandal have been charged with felonies.Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominski were indicted in Cleveland on felony charges of cheating, attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools and misdemeanor charges of unlawfully owning wild animals. The two are scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 26.Neither Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, nor Cominski, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania, commented on the charges. “I take all crime very seriously, and I believe what these two individuals attempted to do was not only dishonorable but also…