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Chicago has surpassed 500 killings so far this year, far outpacing the number of homicides in the city by this time last year. The city has seen 505 homicides this year, up from 333 by this point last year, Chicago Police said. Shootings have also spiked this year to 2,152, compared with 1,413 by this time …

Around two out of every five residents of New York would leave the city if they had the option, according to a new poll by the Manhattan Institute released on Tuesday. Out of all respondents, 39 percent said they would live outside the city if they had the option to live anywhere. The responses come …

United Airlines said Wednesday it is preparing to furlough 16,370 workers on Oct. 1 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the airline industry. Chicago-based United had over 90,000 employees before the pandemic brought the industry to a near standstill in March and had warned in July that 36,000 jobs were at risk of involuntary …

Sinead O’Connor is training to become a medical professional. “Very excited to be starting college in a few weeks : ) Fetac Level 5 Healthcare Support,” O’Connor, 53, tweeted on Monday. The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer clarified that her new profession in healthcare does not mean her music career is over. “[I] Am still …

This will really put salt in the wound of New York City restaurant owners and workers. Nassau County has launched a “Taste Nassau Today” campaign to woo city foodies over to Long Island to enjoy indoor dining at its restaurants because they can’t do so at Gotham eateries, where indoor dining is still banned because …

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 …