IronHeart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans’ credit card balances climbed to a new record high $1.13 trillion, according to data released Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Credit card debt increased by $50 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, a 4.6% jump from the previous […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As many as 70 current and former New York City public housing employees were charged Tuesday with accepting kickbacks from contractors in exchange for awarding city contracts, federal prosecutors in New York said. The charges against the New York City Housing Authority employees present the […]
Nicco Quinones for ABC News (NEW YORK) — It was a perfect storm that confronted first responders when wildfires broke out on the Hawaiian island of Maui in August, investigators have determined. “Severe weather” fed the flames, investigators say, and many of the already limited roads became impassable. An already […]
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 73-year-old man has died in a skydiving incident after he suffered a hard landing when his parachute didn’t fully deploy during his jump, police say. The incident, which happened last Wednesday in Eloy, Arizona — approximately 70 miles south of Phoenix — when […]
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The California coast is currently getting pummeled with heavy rain from atmospheric rivers, essentially rivers in the sky that collect moisture from tropical areas and redistribute the water to higher latitudes. The current El Niño pattern is also favoring […]
Luisa Yu (NEW YORK) — A 79-year-old woman has achieved her goal of traveling to every country in the world and she told “Good Morning America” it has been a “dream come true.” Luisa Yu said ever since she was a young girl in the Philippines, she has “always” dreamed […]
imran kadir photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A second storm within one week is pummeling nearly the entire state of California with heavy rain and life-threatening flooding. Gov. Gavin Newsom has issued a state of emergency for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara […]
ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Could a recently discovered “super-Earth” have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated “fairly close to us” — only 137 light-years away — and orbits within a “habitable zone,” according to NASA. Astronomers say the planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, […]
Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino and Lauren Sorrentino attend MTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation NYC Premiere Party at Hard Rock Hotel New York on August 02, 2023. CREDIT: Santiago Felipe/Stringer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Reality TV star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and his wife, Lauren Sorrentino, jumped into action recently when […]
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers have found after studying sea sponges in the Caribbean. The study of 300 years of ocean temperature records kept preserved within sea sponges in […]
