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The number of initial jobless claims recorded last week stood at 1.3 million, down 10,000 from the previous week and signaling a possible stall in labor market recovery. While initial claims have declined drastically since the coronavirus pandemic caused mass closures of businesses, the decline has leveled off in recent weeks, according to data released …

Machine Gun Kelly has a passion for podiatry. While discussing some of his past music videos, 30-year-old Kelly admitted that the one for “Bloody Valentine” has become his favorite because of his co-star, girlfriend Megan Fox, and her feet. “I said ‘Sail’ was my favorite music video, but for other more personal reasons ‘Bloody Valentine’ …

Some 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic kept the US job market under pressure, new data show. That means workers have submitted more than 51 million initial jobless claims in 17 weeks amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — a number larger than the populations …

Immigrants who have had to fight for and fear the loss of their freedoms will perhaps help remind us of what we have and why it’s precious. A year ago in March 2019, protests broke out in Hong Kong over concerns that a Beijing-backed piece of legislation would allow Hongkongers to be extradited to mainland …

The miniature of the Nostromo spaceship used in “Alien,” one of Tom Cruise’s fighter pilot helmets from “Top Gun” and a Darth Vader costume from the “Star Wars” 1977 promotional tour are among the highlights in an upcoming auction of movie props. The Prop Store’s Aug. 26 and 27 virtual auction — the company’s first …

UnitedHealth Group on Wednesday warned of rising costs later this year as Americans catch up on less urgent surgeries delayed by the coronavirus pandemic but stuck to its full-year forecast after posting a near 102 percent surge in quarterly profit. Shares of UnitedHealth, the first US health insurer to report second quarter results, were down …

Knicks owner James Dolan passed on one Nigerian basketball brain in Masai Ujiri to be president. Some feel Dolan should take a harder look at a Nigerian-American in Ime Udoka to be head coach. Tim Shea, the former Knicks director of international scouting and assistant Olympic coach for Nigeria, says hiring Udoka would be a …

Apple on Wednesday was handed a major victory by Europe’s second-highest court, which rejected a European Union order for the tech giant to pay $15 billion in back taxes. It is the culmination of a tax battle that has been raging since 2016, when the European Commission ruled that Apple had artificially reduced its tax …

China’s communist government has brought an end to the siege of Hong Kong, or at least a beginning of an end. Their secret police seized a 33-story hotel to establish a new headquarters in the city of nearly 7.5 million people who have lived most of their lives in a human rights-supporting, Western-style democratic system. No longer, …

First there was toilet paper. Then there was hand sanitizer. Now there’s a run on guns. US gun sales surged in recent months as Americans grappled with unprecedented coronavirus lockdowns and massive protests against police brutality, a new report says. The FBI ran about 5.4 million background checks for gun purchases from April to June, …