Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is closing in on incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York’s tightening gubernatorial race; a poll released Saturday found. The survey, conducted by the independent Trafalgar Group, found Hochul with just a 4 percent lead over the Long Island congressman

Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to choose whether to adopt a new constitution that aims to shift its market-driven society into one that is more welfare-based while enacting broad institutional reforms. Although Chileans previously voted in droves for a rewrite of the current constitution

Citigroup Inc. is joining a government-sponsored effort to expand access to credit in underserved communities. The bank is launching two pilot programs early next year under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s Project REACh, or Roundtable for Economic Access and Change. One program will issue credit

The man who jumped to his death from the 18th floor of the famous ‘Jenga’ tower in lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood Friday has been identified as a Bed Bath & Beyond executive.Gustavo Arnal, 52, was the Chief Financial Officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, a company that has been going through struggles of late

Internet hosting and security services provider Cloudflare said Saturday that it would block Kiwi Farms, a website associated with harassment campaigns against transgender people. The announcement puts the future of the fringe internet forum in doubt, though some of its members had already anticipated that

It was early 2021, and Senator Rick Scott wanted to go big. The new chairman of the Senate Republican campaign arm had a mind to modernize the place. One of his first decisions was to overhaul how the group raised money online. Mr. Scott installed a new digital – team spearheaded by Trump veterans and enormous

Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people dead. According to initial government estimates, the rain and flooding have caused $10bn (£8.7bn) in damage.“The scale of devastation is massive and requires an

Tens of thousands have taken to the streets across Argentina to protest against political violence and show support for vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the day after she survived what appeared to be a failed assassination attempt.Political leaders around the world and Pope Francis condemned the attack,

For more than four decades, Chile has been governed by a set of principles written by a brutal military dictatorship that was responsible for the torture and murder of thousands.The 1980 constitution, though since amended, was written to help the authoritarian t strengthen its grip on power. It’s also credited with turning the

A student pilot who stole a plane from an airport has posted a chilling ‘goodbye’ message on social media while still in the air. Cory Paterson, 29, took the plane from Tupelo Airport at around 5 am and has been flying in circles across Mississippi for the past five hours.Patterson reportedly threatened to intentionally crash

NASA on Saturday postponed its latest attempt to blast off its massive moon rocket, the second time this week that the agency scrubbed a launch because of technical challenges. The hydrogen leak emerged during fueling and couldn’t be contained despite different attempts to fix it, according to Derrol Nail, the agency’s

Affordable-housing developers nationwide are stalling work on new projects, delaying thousands of units from coming to market when the U.S. already has a broad deficit of low-income housing. Rising interest rates and inflation have made financing affordable housing more difficult and costly. Supply-chain issues for materials

Police have evacuated several stores in Tupelo, Mississippi after a pilot threatened to crash their aircraft into a Walmart. The pilot of the aircraft is understood to have taken the plane from Tupelo Airport at around 5 am, and has been flying over the small town in circles for over an hour. Authorities have evacuated the area and

NASA plans to take another shot at launching its massive rocket on Saturday after pulling the plug on an attempt earlier in the week because of technical challenges. Weather conditions are expected to be 60% favorable for blastoff, as a two-hour flight window opens at 2:17 p.m. ET, officials said Friday. The launch director for

A New York City agency overseeing workplace affairs said on Friday it sued Starbucks because the coffee chain illegally fired a longtime barista and union organizer shortly after employees in his store voted to join a union. The department of consumer and worker protection called the case

Seven police officers were killed in an explosives attack in western Colombia on Friday, the government said, the deadliest attack on security forces since President Gustavo Petro took office promising to end the country’s nearly 60-year conflict. Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla, has pledged to seek “total peace”

The owner of the studio that was rented by the man who was arrested in the failed assassination attempt of Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández revealed that the suspect’s home was filthy and littered with sex toys, including vibrators and a leather strap. Sergio Paroldi, 46, says he was shocked by an image

Eight migrants trying to enter the U.S. along the southern border were found dead in the Rio Grande, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which discovered the bodies on Thursday when responding to an illegal crossing attempt by several dozen migrants near Eagle Pass, Texas. Border Patrol agents apprehended

Russians on Saturday paid their final respects to the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, in a ceremony held in Moscow without much fanfare and with President Vladimir Putin notably absent. Hundreds of mourners lined up to quietly file past Gorbachev’s open casket as it was flanked by honor guards

Former attorney general Bill Barr on Friday said the facts surrounding the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence are beginning to show that the Department of Justice was being “jerked around” by the former president as the Feds sought to obtain classified government records. Barr spoke directly to

Twenty-three years ago, Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam title here. On Friday, she said her goodbyes in the same place, in front of a sold-out crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium.”Thank you, daddy, I know you’re watching. Thanks, mom,” Williams said before starting to cry during her post-match on-court interview. “Everyone

Jane Fonda announced on Instagram that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and has started chemotherapy treatments.“This is a very treatable cancer,” Fonda wrote in the post. “80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky. I’m also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors

The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is normally confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals before discovering the error and removing the data from its website, officials said Friday. The data are from Form 990-T, which is often required for people with individual retirement accounts

Living in the Free State of Florida doesn’t come for free. Businesswoman and philanthropist Adrienne Arsht has sold her 4-acre waterfront compound in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood for a cool $106.87 million, its listing brokerage confirmed to The Post on Friday. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news of the sale,

John Harwood, the veteran White House correspondent for CNN, announced he is leaving the embattled cable network on Friday — the latest high-profile departure under new boss Chris Licht. Harwood tweeted “personal news”, announcing “today’s my last day at CNN.”The 65-year-old former editor-at-large for CNBC — who resume includes

General Motors Co. will offer buyouts to U.S. Buick dealers as an alternative for franchise owners who don’t want to make investments that will be needed as the brand goes all-electric, an executive said. Global Buick chief Duncan Aldred confirmed in an interview that all of Buick’s roughly 2,000 U.S. franchise dealers will

A federal judge on Friday unsealed a more detailed inventory of what the FBI seized in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month. The judge, who is considering the Trump legal team’s request to name a third party to review the materials, ordered the release in a court hearing

Donald Trump said on Thursday he would pardon and apologize to those who participated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6 if he were elected to the White House again.“I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told Wendy Bell, a conservative radio host on Thursday. “I will be looking very, very strongly

A new tropical storm blossomed in the Atlantic basin and rapidly strengthened Thursday, ending a months-long stretch of inactivity. AccuWeather meteorologists say that tropical activity is likely to continue ramping up in the first week of September, with more than one storm likely to develop. Tropical Storm Danielle,

Amazon appears to be losing its case to unravel the union victory that formed the company’s first organized warehouse in the U.S.After workers in Staten Island, N.Y., voted to join the Amazon Labor Union this spring, the company appealed the result. A federal labor official presided over weeks of hearings on the case and is

Rafael Nadal cut himself on the bridge of his nose with his own racket when it ricocheted off the court on the follow-through from a shot, leaving himself bloodied and dizzy during his second-round victory at the US Open. The play was delayed for about five minutes during a medical timeout in the fourth set of what would

With a stern warning about the future of the nation’s democracy, President Joe Biden commanded a prime-time stage Thursday in Philadelphia and singled out his predecessor as an example of the extremism that he believes “threatens the very republic.”As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault.

The former New York Police Department officer convicted of assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a federal judge ruled Thursday, the longest prison sentence so far imposed in the sprawling investigation. Thomas Webster, also a Marine Corps

Argentina detained a man who tried to shoot Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Thursday evening, President Alberto Fernández said, calling the attempted attack the “most serious incident to happen since we recovered – democracy. ”Video footage captured a man pointing a firearm at the vice president’s

From the moment the Denver Broncos landed Russell Wilson in a franchise-altering trade this past March, general manager George Paton insisted that the team’s goal was to sign the star quarterback to a long-term extension. Paton and the Broncos achieved that goal Thursday, agreeing with Wilson on a five

Ford is recalling nearly 200,000 large SUVs in the U.S. because the heating and cooling fan motors can fail and catch fire. The recall covers Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2015 through 2017 model years. The Dearborn, Michigan, company says in government documents that it has reports of 25 fires

A federal judge has for the second time rejected Sen. Lindsey Graham’s effort to block a grand jury subpoena issued by the Atlanta-area district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies’ effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.In a 23-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May ruled that

Bank of America said it is now offering first-time homebuyers in a select group of cities zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgages to help grow homeownership among Black and Hispanic/Latino communities. The option will become available in certain neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami. The new mortgage, called the

United Nations inspectors arrived at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear-power plant on Thursday after crossing the front line between Ukrainian and Russian forces despite intense shelling in the area that the two sides blamed on each other. The visit is the outcome of months of wrangling over access to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant,

An attorney for the Oath Keepers who was with the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was arrested Thursday in Texas on charges related to the attack on Congress, federal prosecutors announced. Kellye SoRelle, 43, was arrested in Junction, Tex., and is scheduled to make an initial appearance Thursday afternoon

Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later.Math scores dropped seven points during that period, marking the first-ever decline, while reading scores slipped

Bryon Smith was standing outside his house when the Tampa police officer put the handcuffs around his wrists. “What’s this about?” Smith asked, flustered, standing in the early afternoon Florida summer heat. Minutes later, he was sitting in the back of a police cruiser, still trying to figure out why he was being placed under arrest, body-camera footage

A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor has been locked up for six months in conditions “bordering on torture”, as the country’s ruling elite pursues a strategy to purge the justice system and derail corruption investigations against their allies.Virginia Laparra, 42, a senior anti-corruption prosecutor, was accused of abuse of authority in apparent retaliation

A leading Russian oil tycoon has been found dead in suspicious circumstances after he plunged from a sixth-floor window at a Moscow hospital.Ravil Maganov, 67, chairman of Russian oil giant LUKOIL, died on the spot after falling from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow at around 7.30 am

Mitch McConnell is among the myriad Republicans questioning the Senate GOP’s quality of candidates in the midterms. Rick Scott wants everyone to stop doubting his recruits.“Sen. McConnell and I clearly have a strategic disagreement here … We have great candidates,” the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair said in an interview Wednesday. “He

Crews installed an emergency rental pump at a water plant in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday in hope of restoring more service to the parched residents of the capital city, who may still be days away from reliable water service, officials said. Although Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba tried to strike an optimistic note when he spoke to reporters,

Democrat Mary Peltola has won a special election for the U.S. House in Alaska, defeating Republican Sarah Palin and becoming the first-ever Alaska Native to win a seat in Congress as well as the first woman to clinch the state’s at-large district.Peltola’s win flips a seat that had long been in Republican hands. She will serve the remainder of a term left

The Justice Department raised the stakes for former President Donald Trump as he seeks to freeze a probe into the handling of classified documents, making a case that his team’s repeated failure to relinquish them—and efforts possibly to conceal them—led to agents’ unprecedented search of Mr. Trump’s Florida home.In a detailed court filing late

Serena Williams’ expected retirement was put on hold yet again after the 23-time major champion pulled off a 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 upset over No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit in the second round of the US Open on Wednesday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium.”It’s no rush here,” Williams said during her on-court interview after a match that ran two hours, 26 minutes. “I’m loving

Six weeks after President Joe Biden scored the lowest marks of his presidency, his job approval rating has jumped to a level not seen since September 2021. Americans give President Biden a negative 40 – 52 percent job approval rating compared to the negative 31 – 60 percent job approval rating he received in July, according to a Quinnipiac

GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced the state is suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claiming that the agency has delayed Florida’s attempts to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. The lawsuit, filed in Tampa federal court, alleges that the FDA has held up Florida’s application to begin getting medications to treat

Joe Rogan’s declaration over the weekend that he plans to vote for Republican Party candidates because of Democrats’ “errors” in their management of the COVID pandemic has ignited calls to boycott his streaming home, Spotify. The host of the popular “The Joe Rogan Experience” told his guest, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, on Saturday

The Biden administration is considering blocking imports from the impoverished nation of Nicaragua — a move that would deal a serious blow to the Central American country’s economy –— over U.S. objections to the increasingly authoritarian regime of President Daniel Ortega.”There has been a dramatic deterioration of respect for democratic

It’s been exactly 25 years since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. But her legacy of activism and charity (not to mention the bike shorts) lives on. Diana died at age 36 on August 31, 1997, of injuries sustained in a car crash in Paris, which also killed her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. About a decade later, a jury attributed her