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A jumper plunged to his death from a luxury hotel in tourist-packed Times Square on Friday, police sources told The Post. The unidentified 39-year-old man was pronounced dead at 11:30 a.m. after plunging from Row NYC, formerly known as the Milford Plaza, on Eighth Avenue near 45th Street. A firefighter who was cleaning the sidewalk below the 29-story hotel said the man jumped at around 10 a.m. Workers removed the body from the bustling area around 3:15 p.m. Police said the investigation was ongoing. In August, it surfaced that the hotel might become an intake center and shelter for up…

It’s hard to know which part of Parag Agrawal’s job as Twitter chief executive has been the worst, since he took over 10 months ago. There was the advertising downturn that left the social media company floundering as it tried to keep up with the overly ambitious financial goals he inherited. There was the uninvited takeover bid from Elon Musk that landed after less than five months, throwing the company into limbo and torpedoing any grand plans he may have had.And then in May, after Musk first got cold feet about the $44bn deal and claimed Twitter was understating the…

As daunting first weeks go, Dixit Joshi’s takes some beating.After a weekend of damaging speculation on social media about the impending collapse of Credit Suisse, Joshi started as the bank’s chief financial officer on Monday with its share price plumbing new lows and a gauge of default risk spiralling higher.The British-South Africa banker turned up to his first executive team meeting in Zurich that morning and quipped to colleagues: “You forgot to send me flowers — all I got were these gifts from the market. So much for my honeymoon period!”By Friday, the bank’s share price had bounced off a…

A Malaysian citizen was charged for trafficking over $725,000 worth of rhinoceros horns that involved illegal poaching.The United States Department of Justice said Malaysian national Teo Boon Ching, his trafficking organization and the Malaysian firm Sunrise Greenland Sdn. Bhd. engaged in the “cruel trafficking of endangered and threatened wildlife and the product of brutal poaching.”Ching specialized in the transportation of rhino horn, ivory, and pangolins from Africa, using routes through Malaysia and Laos to consumers in Vietnam and China. 10 MOUNTAINEERS DEAD AFTER AVALANCHE IN NORTHERN INDIA”Teo Boon Ching is alleged to be the leader of a transnational criminal enterprise…

In another installment of the legal woes of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network, court documents submitted as part of the case have been released for public access along with the personal data of thousands of the company’s customers.The court filing allows anyone to access more than 14,500 pages of information that relates to the financial dealings of Alex Mashinsky, Dan Leon and Nuke Goldstein, the platform’s co-founders, but also the names, wallet IDs, and crypto transactions data of those who had invested their funds with Celsius Network. Earlier this month, it was reported that Mashinsky, who quit as the company’s CEO…

U.S. Marines stormed a beach from the South China Sea Friday in joint military drills organized with troops from South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.The exercises were held on an uninhabited beach in Zambales province in the Philippines, roughly 150 miles east of the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop along Manila’s coastline. The rocky reef made headlines in 2012 when China seized the area. It has since claimed it as its own, and its fishermen and coast guard have maintained a dominant presence. NUCLEAR-POWERED US CARRIER JOINS SOUTH KOREA WARSHIPS FOR DRILLS AFTER NORTH KOREA MISSILE LAUNCHESThe KAMANDAG drills — the…

Shakira Spencer, 35, was found dead in her child’s bedroom two weeks after she was last seen. A provisional forensic post-mortem failed to determine a cause of death as her body was ‘badly decomposed’A dead mother was identifiable only through dental records as her body was “badly decomposed” when it was found, an inquest heard. Shakira Spencer, 35, was found dead in her child’s bedroom two weeks after she was last seen. After neighbours raised concerns about the woman and reported a bad smell coming from the property, police forced entry into her home in Hanwell, West Londony, on September…

President Biden’s move to pardon Americans with prior federal convictions of simple marijuana possession will not include offenses committed by illegal immigrants — an exception that has already bristled some immigrant activists.Biden announced Thursday that those convicted of simple possession of marijuana under federal law would be pardoned, while also urging governors to pardon those convicted of state offenses.”As I often said during my campaign for President, no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,” Biden said. ” Sending people to prison for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that…

A Maryland Court of Appeals upheld a decision from a lower court that allowed county election workers to count mail-in ballots before election day.The court of appeals issued the ruling on Friday, which allows local boards of canvassers in state counties to “meet and open envelopes, canvass, and tabulate mail-in ballots” on Oct. 1. The Maryland State Board of Elections was sued by Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox. Source: Fox News

CNN  —  The bodies of more than 500 civilians have been discovered in territory in northeast Ukraine recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukrainian police say. And as Ukrainian forces liberate more land in the northeast, new burial sites are being discovered in Donetsk. Many appear to contain the remains of civilians who lost their lives during several months of shelling and rocket fire. “We found the bodies of 534 civilians from the de-occupied territories” in Kharkiv region alone, said Serhii Bolnivov, head of the investigative department of the regional police. The bodies included 226 women and 19 children, Bolvinov added.…