The American dream is slipping away. Most US citizens no longer enjoy “a minimal quality of life” due to skyrocketing costs, a depressing new study has uncovered.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, in Queens, two men getting their morning coffee from a city food truck were killed when an 84-year-old driver plowed into them — leaving the son of one victim to heartbreakingly weep, “It should have been me.’’
A 77-year-old woman died after she was pulled from the ocean at a popular New York City beach — the same day another swimmer drowned and at least six others were rescued from rip currents on the Jersey Shore.
And we're learning the first moments after an explosion erupted at that U.S. Steel plant in Pennsylvania. Company firefighters, local responders and employees raced in to rescue people from the smoldering wreckage. But word spread that some were trapped in the sprawling facility, and the walls were too unstable to safely bring them out.
