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Carol Burnett has been named a temporary guardian of her grandson as her daughter, Erin Hamilton, battles substance abuse issues. Burnett, 87, and her husband, Brian Miller, will have custody of 14-year-old Dylan through Jan. 8, 2021, People reported. “Temporary guardians have the authority to change Dylan’s school and housing pending the next hearing date,” …

Lego’s sales boomed in the first half of the year as kids and adults alike used its trademark building blocks to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic, the toymaker said Wednesday. The Danish company reported a 14 percent spike in consumer sales for January through June amid worldwide lockdowns that shut families in their homes …

Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins does not believe masks work and says that he is at peace with the thought of contracting COVID-19. “If I die, I die,” Cousins said on Spotify’s “10 Questions” podcast hosted by NFL Network’s Kyle Brandt. During the interview with Brandt, Cousins went against the advice of medical experts, including the …

The British castle that served as the exterior of Hogwarts in the first two “Harry Potter” films has been stupefied by the number of guests being rude to employees over its COVID-19 safety measures and is moving to crack down on the unruly guests. Alnwick Castle, the second-largest inhabited castle behind Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle, …

Old Navy is offering to pay its employees a full day’s rate to volunteer as poll workers on Election Day in November, the company announced Tuesday. It’s a move that comes amid alarming reports of a looming nationwide shortage of poll workers, who are typically elderly and retired people — a population that this year …

Business was booming for New York City’s merchants of color before the coronavirus pandemic pushed many to the brink of collapse, a new report says. The Big Apple was home to 64,514 minority-owned businesses — or 31.4 percent of all firms citywide — in 2017, up 7.4 percent from about 60,000 in 2012, according to …

They found love in the muck. Despite its notorious reputation for being a polluted pool of stagnant filth, the Gowanus Canal was recently the site of a marriage proposal — and she said yes. Gowanus residents Emma Borochoff, 30, and Jamison Pence, 32, have been dating for three-and-a-half years, lived in the neighborhood for two, …

Decades-old toy brands like Care Bears and Monopoly are flying off the shelves as parents turn to reliable hits from their own childhoods to keep their kids busy during the coronavirus, The Post has learned. Sales of Tonka trucks, Lincoln Logs, Care Bears and Lite Brite have been so brisk in recent months that the …

The hype over Brandon Nakashima began in February when the American reached the Delray Beach Open quarterfinals at age 18 — and in the process bowled over Pat Cash. Cash, the former Australian great, had flown in from Down Under to scout the teenager from San Diego. Cash signed up to coach Nakashima as soon …

Oscar-winner Julianne Moore is set to join the ensemble cast of Universal’s movie adaptation of the Broadway hit “Dear Evan Hansen,” joining Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams and Amandla Stenberg. The story follows Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a …