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Chipotle is paying a record $25 million fine to settle criminal charges that its burrito joints sickened more than 1,100 people over a three-year period because of lax food-safety practices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The fast-food chain made headlines repeatedly between 2015 and 2018 for multi-state food-borne illness outbreaks — including one that …
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Cecily Strong penned an essay about mourning her cousin Owen, who died of brain cancer this year, as well as navigating a new romantic relationship, while in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m in the middle of my two-week quarantine in my tiny apartment in New York. I’ve cried every day,” she wrote in the …
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New York has applied for a $4 billion federal loan to help cover the ballooning cost of unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus crisis, officials said. The Empire State could use the interest-free line of credit from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund to pay for unemployment insurance benefits as needed over time, a state official said …
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NBCUniversal has sold a $178 million stake in stationary-bike company Peloton, whose shares have lately been surging because of the coronavirus crisis. The Comcast-owned broadcaster — an early investor in Peloton, which went public last September — has been looking at its portfolio of investments as it seeks to shore up its cash reserves amid …
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In the 2015 movie “The Big Short” about the Great Recession, Brad Pitt’s character Ben Rickert is strolling in Las Vegas with two Wall Street colleagues who are elated about all the money they made betting that the US economy was in trouble. Their bet, of course, was that problems with mortgage-backed securities would hurt …
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Meghan Markle has made her first TV appearance since making her much-publicized departure from the royal family with Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex spoke out in a pre-recorded interview on “Good Morning America” on Monday about the new Disney documentary “Elephant,” which she narrates. Markle filmed the interview last summer, and it was not …
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The vast ranks of newly unemployed are straining the capacities of food banks, soup kitchens and pop-up services across New York City. One user, Brittany, a 35-year-old Ph.D. candidate at Teachers College at Columbia University, who declined to give her full name, says she started visiting food services at Salem United Methodist Church in Harlem …
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Beefed-up unemployment benefits that the US government is doling out in the coronavirus crisis are so generous they’re encouraging many recipients to stay home from work, The Post has learned. The emergency legislation, the CARES Act, which was passed last month, is aimed at helping businesses and workers hurt by coronavirus shutdowns, including through $600 …
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Walmart is rolling out 50,000 new jobs. Retail giant Walmart said it would hire thousands of new employees to help it keep pace with surging demand for food and supplies as Americans stock up to get through the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. As a purveyor of foods and household essentials, Walmart has seen demand surge …
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If you can’t pay your credit card because you lost your job owing to the coronavirus pandemic, your card company might help. Depending on the card, the issuer might let you skip a month, waive fees or extend your credit line. Banks, the big credit card issuers, are “working to identify and assist affected clients …
Chipotle is paying a record $25 million fine to settle criminal charges that its burrito joints sickened more than 1,100 people over a three-year period because of lax food-safety practices, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. The fast-food chain made headlines repeatedly between 2015 and 2018 for multi-state food-borne illness outbreaks — including one that …
