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WASHINGTON — Top officials from the nation’s hobbled airlines visited the White House on Thursday to plead for financial relief as Congress continues to delay on passing another round of urgently-needed coronavirus stimulus. CEOs from American, United, Hawaiian, Delta and Southwest Airlines met with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to push for more aid before …

Craig Carton’s rise and fall will soon be laid out for all to see in an HBO documentary. A trailer was released Thursday for “Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth,” which will air on Oct. 9 and detail Carton’s journey from WFAN host to jail. Carton served a year in prison after he …

Nearly 60 percent of businesses that closed nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic are never reopening again, according to a report. The vast majority of those businesses are restaurants and gift stores, according to Yelp’s Local Economic Impact Report, a monthly survey of business listings. As of Aug. 31, 163,735 businesses were listed as closed, with …

Senator Susan Collins (R., Me.) is trailing by 12 points in her reelection campaign, according to a Quinnipiac poll released on Wednesday. Collins, a moderate Republican, faces a significant challenge from her opponent Sara Gideon, a Democrat who is currently Maine’s House Speaker. Maine voters have chosen Democratic presidential candidates since 1988, although some statewide …

House Democrats released a report Wednesday detailing how design and regulatory failures by Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration led to two fatal crashes of 737 MAX planes. The 238-page investigative report from staff for Democrats on the House Transportation Committee, the result of an 18-month investigation, called the deaths of 346 people in the two MAX crashes “preventable.” …

The coronavirus pandemic may not damage the global economy as badly as previously feared, an influential group says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday that it now expects worldwide gross domestic product — a key measure of economic health — to drop by 4.5 percent this year, down from its June forecast …

Katy Perry has obtained a restraining order against a man she claims has been stalking her and making terrifying “death threats” on social media. Perry, 35, filed for the order of protection on Monday and it was granted the same day, per court documents obtained by Page Six. In the restraining order petition, the new …

US retail sales climbed less than expected last month, another signal that the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has slowed. Retailers and food-service merchants raked in $537.5 billion in August, a modest 0.6 percent increase from the prior month that came in below experts’ estimates for a 1 percent rise, the US Census Bureau …

Henry Golding is a Renaissance man. Before he became a movie star, the Malaysia-born actor, 33, got his start as a hairstylist in London — and recently went back to his roots to help wife Liv Lo during the coronavirus pandemic. “Once in a while, when she’s struggling with a blow dry in the morning, …

Giancarlo Stanton is back. The next question is, can he stay healthy the rest of the season? Stanton was activated before Tuesday’s series opener against the Blue Jays in The Bronx — along with Gio Urshela and Jonathan Loaisiga. Stanton is the DH and hitting cleanup while Urshela is starting at third base. Stanton had …