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The numbers: A coronavirus battered economy slowed to a record 32.9% per year in the second quarter, underscoring how big the hole the United States is in to recover from the deepest recession in US history. The wave of damage caused by the first global pandemic in a century was …

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly was suspended for eight games on Wednesday for pitching and taunting Houston Astros players. Fans and even some players expressed outrage at the league’s decision to suspend Kelly. Kelly’s pitches towards Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa were seen by many as retaliation for the …

Fox Business Briefs: L Brands plans to lay off about 15 percent of its corporate employees, about 850 people. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the second week in a row, fueling fears that a new round of business closings amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases …

The Occupy City Hall protester, whose arrest by plainclothes police officers sparked fury between police and protesters, was captured with orange cameras tearing up New York police cameras by Post photographers and the lens of the police officers. The photos and video show Nikki Stone, 18, standing at a crosswalk …

Lead pollution has long been recognized as a health hazard, particularly for young people. But a new study says the scope of the problem is much larger than previously thought, with one in three children worldwide, about 800 million in total, threatened by unacceptably high levels of lead in the …