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A suspect accused of mugging a Lyft driver jumped off New York City’s FDR Drive on July 11 and was seriously injured. Video footage shows Ismael English, 20, trying to flee the scene on the overpass as he sits teetering on the edge of the roadway, the New York Post reported Friday. English, wearing a dark colored shirt and what appeared to be grey pants, slips over the edge and hangs on for a moment before apparently losing his grip and falling to the pavement below.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday jumped into the 2024 presidential race, filing his official paperwork hours ahead of a planned launch event.

President Biden is seeing a boost to his approval rating following his first State of the Union address this week, with a poll released Friday showing him at 47 percent. The latest NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist National Poll found that 47 percent of Americans surveyed approve of the job he is doing as president, which is a jump from the 39 percent approval rating he had in the same poll last month.

Crime rates are skyrocketing across the board in multicultural Britain. From The Daily Mail: A knife crime epidemic in London and England’s big cities has seen the number of offences involving blades soar by more than a fifth in the last year. Police in England and Wales recorded 39,598 offences involving blades in the year ending December 2017, a 22% increase compared with the previous year. London saw a 44% increase in the number of killings, with more than 150 victims, while the number knife offences in the capital rose by more than 20 per cent to 14,680, separate stats...

It is disqualifying for a modern-day presidential nominee to refuse to release tax returns to the voters, especially one who has not been subject to public scrutiny in either military or public service. Tax returns provide the public with its sole confirmation of the veracity of a candidate's representations regarding charities, priorities, wealth, tax conformance, and conflicts of interest. Further, while not a likely circumstance, the potential for hidden inappropriate associations with foreign entities, criminal organizations, or other unsavory groups is simply too great a risk to ignore for someone who is seeking to become commander-in-chief. Mr. Trump says he...

Who knew an octopus could do this?

<p>WASHINGTON — A 23-year-old Maryland man was in the custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and was swiftly apprehended on the North Lawn by uniformed Secret Service agents and their dogs.</p> <p>The incident came about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the same lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the mansion before he was felled in the ceremonial East Room and taken into custody.</p>

The banker suicide wave that started in late January has now become an epidemic, and it seems to be focusing on one bank: JP Morgan. After the first suicide that took place in JPM's London headquarters, ending the life of 39 year old Gabriel Magee, a vice president in the investment bank’s technology department, next it was 37 year old Ryan Crane, an executive director in the firm's program trading division, who died under still unknown circumstances. Moments ago a third JPMorgan banker committed suicide, this time at the JPMorgan Charter House Asia headquarters in central Hong Kong, where a...

CBC cameraman Sam Martin was in the field on November 15th with reporter Briar Stewart in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada covering a story about school buses when Sam had a very unexpected surprise. A camera friendly feline strolled near the bus then took notice of the cameraman and his gear. What appeared to be a grey and white tabby cat leapt up Sam’s back while he was shooting a promo for the story, made its way atop the cameraman’s head, then perched on the tripod mounted camera. video at link

The following text is an excerpt of photojournalist Aymann Ismail's first-hand account, "This Is What It Looks Like Just Before the Muslim Brotherhood Jumps You." All I smell is sweat and spray-paint. All I see are fists. I’m thinking of last year, watching protesters pull a riot cop out of Tahrir Square into an alley and telling Bucky, “That guy is dead.” Now I’m thinking, “I’m that guy.” That night, I was planning on going to my cousin’s wedding. I spent the last five days of Ramadan with my family in Alexandria, Egypt’s second largest city, then went to my...

This is Geronimo — a dog who is not only able to jump rope, but can jump double-dutch. Considering that a large majority of the staff at Mashable HQ are unable to do that, we are suitably impressed.

New York - Oil prices surged in electronic trading Monday after coalition forces launched an attack on Libyan military targets over the weekend. The benchmark U.S. contract, West Texas Intermediate, gained as much as $2.28 to top $103 a barrel for April delivery. It later dropped back to settle $1.26 higher at $102.33 a barrel. (Snip) "There's significant upside risk to the oil market," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst with PFG Best. "Lets face it, the situation in Libya is still in flux. And the entire region is in flux as well."

I fell prey to temptation. My ears were being tickled. But I have corrected my path! --- Last night, I watched Glee for the last time. (snip) Glee has devolved into a worldview-training course. And its worldview is without hope. --- The music of the show is what has drawn me, and I will miss it. But it is an understatement to say that the show is edgy. The characters include...

PARIS — Higher prices for food, oil and other commodities are starting to stoke inflation in the euro area, data released Tuesday indicated, while British residents got their first taste of higher taxes on retail goods and services. Annual inflation in the euro area jumped to 2.2 percent in December from 1.9 percent in November, according to an initial estimate from Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency.

As a likely reflection of how challenging the nation's political environment has become for Democrats, President Obama on Tuesday jumped into the governor's race in, of all places, California, which his party has taken for granted for years -- except when it comes to fundraising. In an e-mail to many of the millions of names in the contact list of Obama's Organizing for America perpetual campaign operation, the vacationing Democrat urged his supporters to also support Jerry Brown, one of the Golden State's more enduring politicians who should need no introduction -- nor help...

NEW YORK – Enthusiastic investors are buying up stocks again, sending the Dow Jones industrials above the 8,000 mark for the first time in nearly two months. All the major indexes are soaring more than 3.5 percent ... Financial stocks are leading the rally, following the relaxing of certain accounting rules that should help banks reduce losses. ... .. The Dow has not risen above 8,000 since Feb. 10.

SACRAMENTO — California's jobless rate climbed to 10.5 percent in February, the second month of double-digit unemployment. ... Sharp declines in construction, manufacturing, finance, trade, transportation, professional services, leisure, health and education are blamed for the losses. ... The state has lost more than 600,000 jobs since February 2008, a 4 percent drop.

LAMPASAS TX - Imagine driving down the street when suddenly, a deer leaps through a window into your car! That's exactly what happened to a woman in Lampasas this morning at 3rd and Porter. She had just dropped her children off at school and was driving down the street when the deer made its grand entrance.

MEYERS, Calif. - Efforts to tame a raging wildfire that has destroyed some 200 homes near Lake Tahoe suffered a setback Tuesday when a backfire set by firefighters to control the blaze jumped a fireline, forcing a new round of evacuations, authorities said. Firefighters were working to protect a development outside South Lake Tahoe when the blaze expanded, prompting the evacuation of a 300-home subdivision. Authorities also issued a voluntary evacuation order for a pricey waterfront subdivision on the lake, officials said. About 2,000 people evacuated, according to South Lake Tahoe Police Lt. Martin Hale. "It's a fairly populated area,"...

A 91-year-old man from East Sussex has become the oldest person in Britain to go paragliding, according to his son. Reg Rose-Innes, from Beddingham, flew above Devil's Dyke in Sussex for a 20-minute flight at 800ft (243m). He said after the tandem flight: "It was marvellous being up in the air. It was a gorgeous view and lovely day."