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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 …

There will be a 2020 Big Ten football season after all. The Big Ten announced Wednesday morning the return of its fall football season, reversing a previous decision to cancel the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s plan will include daily rapid testing and would begin play the weekend of Oct. 23-24, …

Former Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher is calling “f–king bulls–t” on the coronavirus pandemic. The 53-year-old said he refuses to wear a mask inside stores and on public transportation because he feels the rules are infringing on his rights. “There are too many civil liberties being taken away from us now,” he said, according to the …

Neil Patrick Harris and his family contracted COVID-19 earlier this year. “It happened very early, like late March, early April,” the 47-year-old actor revealed on the “Today” show on Tuesday. Harris said that he, husband David Burtka and 9-year-old twins Gideon and Harper all “feel great” now. “We were doing our best before, and I …

The parent company of Chuck E. Cheese wants to destroy about 7 billion prize tickets that have piled up in its supply chain amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company, CEC Entertainment, asked a Texas bankruptcy court to approve settlements allowing three of its vendors to shred the excess tickets at a cost of about $2.3 …

Billionaire liberal activist George Soros told an Italian newspaper that he sees the coronavirus epidemic as a “revolutionary” opportunity. In an interview with La Repubblica, the Hungarian-born Mr. Soros also denounced President Trump as a “transitory phenomenon” but expressed hope that the COVID-19 crisis has opened up politics in a radical direction. “I would describe …

The future of Broadway is looking a bit brighter after some reassuring words from Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday. Fauci, the top infectious disease specialist at the US Centers for Disease Control, reportedly told Evan Roider, a musical director for the national tour of “Wicked,” that theaters will see a “gradual return to normal” throughout …

Jamie Dimon’s back-to-the-office push despite the pandemic has already run into trouble. JPMorgan Chase was forced to send some workers its New York City headquarters home this week after an employee in the bank’s equities trading and sales division tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, sources told The Post. An insider said the banking giant  …

Toilet paper is back on store shelves. But you may not recognize some of the brands. Demand for toilet paper has been so high during the pandemic that in order to keep their shelves stocked, retailers are buying up foreign toilet paper brands, mostly from Mexico. Major chains, across the country, including CVS, Piggly Wiggly, …

Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham said Monday night that he would be “hesitant” to receive a coronavirus vaccine if one were available by year’s end, expressing concern that  “political and financial corruption” in Washington could mar the approval process. “I’m going to ask a lot of questions,” he said in a debate against Republican incumbent …