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McDonald’s stock price drops after CEO promises affordability during latest earnings call

Anton Petrus/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Quick and cheap are two of the first words that come to mind when thinking about fast food. But some McDonald's customers have criticized the restaurant giant over recent higher menu prices, prompting the CEO to address the issue of affordability during the company's latest earning call. McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski spoke to analysts on Monday morning about the fast food chain's mixed fourth quarter results, as well as the global market impact with ongoing […]

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70 NYC Housing Authority employees arrested in corruption investigation

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 largest number of federal bribery charges brought on a single day in the history of the Department of Justice. The investigation involves the city’s Department of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and […]

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Americans’ credit card debt hits record $1.13 trillion

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 quarter. The data on credit card debt comes as total household debt rose by $212 billion to reach $17.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the New York […]

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How climate change contributes to the atmospheric rivers slamming the West Coast

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 multiple rounds of heavy rain and an overall period of unsettled, rainy weather, forecasts show. The relentless moisture is causing life-threatening flooding in some of the most populous cities in Southern […]

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Man, 73, dies in skydiving incident after parachute fails to deploy

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 Terry Gardner, a Casa Grande resident, jumped from a plane at 12:04 p.m., his third jump of the day, according to a statement from the Eloy Police Department. “Terry, accompanied by […]

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Maui police release first report after investigation into response to deadly blazes

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 understaffed police force was left to grapple with communications and equipment problems that hadn't previously been anticipated, a preliminary after-action investigation has found. Those are some of the findings of the […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024

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Meet the 79-year-old who has traveled to all 193 countries in the world

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 of traveling. "When I [went to] the movies, I [saw] this beautiful backdrop about the scenery, the nature, the rivers, the mountains, and that fascinated me," Yu recalled. "That's why I […]

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NASA announces new ‘super-Earth’: Exoplanet orbits in ‘habitable zone,’ is only 137 light-years away

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, is about one and a half times the width of Earth and orbits a small, reddish star. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet, which, if confirmed, "would […]

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Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino speaks out after saving son from choking

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 their son started choking. The Sorrentinos shared video footage of the incident on Instagram Sunday as a warning to other parents. Mike Sorrentino said the scary moment started as a typical, […]

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