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First, it was bars, restaurants, hotels. And clothing stores, movie theaters, entertainment venues. And countless small businesses, from bookstores to barber shops. Now, the record-setting flood of layoffs unleashed by the viral outbreak is extending beyond the services industries that bore the initial brunt and are still suffering most. White collar employees, ranging from software...

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Long Island residents confined to their homes amid social-distancing rules have been clogging sewers by flushing socks, gloves and other “fibruous materials” down their toilets, a report said Thursday. The Nassau County residents have backed up sewage-treatment plants with the materials, which bind together in pipes and arrive at the plants in large balls, Newsday...

In the age of the coronavirus, the internet offers cool podcasts — including ones from Henry Rollins, Diplo and the Safdie brothers.

A UK photographer has painstakingly created an entire set of wedding ceremony snaps in lockdown – using Legos. Chris Wallace, 36, of Middlewich, Cheshire, England, found his wedding bookings canceled or postponed when strict lockdown measures were introduced by the government last month. Finding himself with some free time on his hands, Wallace decided to...

Facebook is canceling all large gatherings until June 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday. The social network is also extending its requirement that employees work from home through the end of May, and will permit employees who don’t feel comfortable coming in to work remotely “through at least the summer.” “A small percent of our...

A Brooklyn man suspected of butchering his father walked into a bagel shop near the grisly crime scene and claimed he not only killed his dad — but also devoured parts of his body, police sources told The Post on Thursday. Khaled Ahmad allegedly walked into Park Bagels drenched in blood Wednesday, ranting to a...

WASHINGTON — President Trump is pushing to get Americans back to normal life from coronavirus lockdowns within weeks under new reopening guidelines shared with governors on Thursday, The Post has learned. The “Opening Up American Again” guidelines, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, say states that show a downward trend in COVID-19...

Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed Thursday to have told New Yorkers to avoid riding buses and subways “early on” in the coronavirus crisis — even though he was still saying public transit was safe well into March. “Early on we said to people, if you don’t need to go on the subway, don’t; if you...

The coronavirus has revealed there's not a unified consensus among countries as to which businesses qualify as essential.

The Amazon chief and richest man in the world now owns almost $100 million in real estate over the top floors of 212 Fifth Ave., a condominium near Madison Square Park.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the company is on its way to building the capacity to test all of its employees for the coronavirus. In a shareholder letter, Bezos said that the e-commerce juggernaut is on the cusp of being able to begin tests on employees in its warehouses, and will eventually be...

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A Massachusetts man tried to blow up a Jewish nursing home with a five-gallon gas canister stuffed with a Christian pamphlet, federal prosecutors allege. John Michael Rathbun, 36, was arrested Wednesday on attempted arson charges in connection with a homemade incendiary device found outside Ruth’s House, a Jewish-sponsored assisted living facility for people of all...

As he prepares to unfurl plans to reopen the US economy, President Trump told senators on Thursday that he believes some areas of the country can reopen without widespread coronavirus testing. Trump told Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on a Thursday call with senators that he agreed rural counties in Pennsylvania — with few confirmed cases...

US stocks attempted to shrug off another surge in unemployment filings on Thursday only to slip back into negative territory by the afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open before dropping as much as 292.97 points, or 1.2 percent, in midday trading after being...

Medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are supposed to wear eye protection such as goggles or face shields, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — so could wearing eyeglasses offer some protection, too? A recent study by five ocular scientists published in Contact Lens & Anterior Eye,...

As the country came to grips with the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration asked the working people of America to comply with containment measures. For some 20 million Americans, that came at the cost of their jobs. But for some workers, Team Trump could add post-crisis misery to their current pains. Over the weekend, NPR...

The phrase “will life ever go back to normal?” has spiked dramatically in Google searches as the coronavirus crisis continues to rage this week — and with good reason, psychiatrists tell The Post. The number of people searching the term doubled globally in the past week, according to the tech giant’s coronavirus trends page, which...

NAIROBI – Safari operator Pankaj Shah would normally be showing tourists around the beauty spots of his native Kenya. Instead, he is spearheading a volunteer effort to feed thousands of families left penniless when the new coronavirus devastated the economy. “One old woman told us she hadn’t eaten for days – her sons had stopped...

Nokia declined to comment on Thursday on a media report saying it was working with an investment bank to defend itself from a hostile takeover — the news of which sent its shares flying. “Nokia does not comment on market rumors,” said a Nokia spokesman. Earlier on Thursday shares in Nokia surged 12.5 percent with...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been hit with at least two federal lawsuits challenging the social distancing orders she imposed to battle the spread of the coronavirus that requires people to stay at home and most businesses to shutter their doors. The lawsuits, filed on Tuesday and Wednesday by four Michigan residents and one business...

George Stephanopoulos, who revealed this week he has tested positive for COVID-19, is being accused by a hacked-off neighbor in the Hamptons of not following social-distancing guidelines. The 59-year-old co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” — whose wife, Ali Wentworth, earlier this week emerged from a three-week battle with the deadly bug — has been...

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management said global stocks could tumble further, ultimately losing half or more of their value from February’s high, as the world braces for the deepest recession since the 1930s-era Great Depression. The New York-based hedge fund firm, in a letter to clients on Wednesday seen by Reuters, wrote that the sharp market...

WUHAN, China – Peng Jing stifles a laugh as she looks into the eyes of her tuxedo-clad fiancee, Yao Bin, who is, in turn, trying not to step on the long train of her white wedding dress. “Smile!”, shouts the photographer as he snaps away. Weddings, birthdays and celebrations have been canceled around the world...