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This 26-year-old earns $78,000 per year as a magician in New York City
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. Dennis Kim remembers the exact moment he fell in love with magic. He was around 10 years old, laying in his bedroom in Long Island, New York, when […]
How this 31-year-old making $157,000 a year plans to retire early
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. On her walks to school as a child, Lu Wang dreamed about one day being able to afford a car of her very own, so that she would […]
What is each state’s favorite Christmas candy this year? Pa.’s makes sense
One of the fun things at Christmas is all the candy. Our favorite brands repackage and get creative with new flavors. Candy is perfect as a gift for anyone and everyone, although some of our doctors and dentists may disagree. Each year, the online bulk candy business, Candystore.com, uses its […]
A year later, Dime Bank still bullish on Hartford County expansion
It’s been a little over a year since Norwich-based Dime Bank first announced plans to expand into Hartford County by opening branches in Glastonbury and Manchester. But despite a year in which the pandemic continues to impact business, Dime Bank CEO Nick Caplanson said his bank has zero regrets on […]
After evacuating, they rang in the Jewish New Year in the middle of a wildfire
Pamela Taylor, an evacuee of the Caldor fire in South Lake Tahoe, prepares apples and honey for the Jewish New Year in Calabasas. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) This is how you ring in the Jewish New Year in the middle of a wildfire. The rabbi still wears white, […]
Film Critic Harlan Jacobson: Cannes at the end of the Plague Year
Everything about Cannes over the years has become more tense: general labor strikes in France, the overheated political scene resulting in heavy security measures, the Covid pandemic shut down the Cannes Film Festival like everything else in 2020 and this year made the 74th running of it an impossibility in […]
Daytona Beach man gets a year in jail for slurs against Asians
A man who scrawled racial slurs against Asians on a New Smyrna Beach family’s vehicles and placed nails in their driveway was sentenced to nearly a year in the county jail followed by house arrest and probation. A jury convicted Kyle Christiansen, 34, of Daytona Beach, on June 8 of […]
Graduates at Greenwich’s Brunswick School say goodbye to a year ‘we will never forget’
GREENWICH — Surviving — and even thriving — during a school year marred by a global pandemic is a remarkable achievement, the head of school at Brunswick told the 104 graduates at commencement exercises on Wednesday afternoon. Thomas Philip spoke before an assembled crowd of about 1,000 people, as family […]
Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Yves here. These examples illustrate what a difference having a space, as opposed to living on the streets or in shelter, make to the homeless. With so much underutilized hotel and residential space, it’s a shame programs like this are being terminated because Covid is supposedly in retreat. The fact […]
After lost year, UM long snapper Camaron Cheeseman hopes NFL dreams come true on draft day
Camaron Cheeseman’s goal during his Michigan football career was to go unnoticed. Michigan long snapper Camaron Cheeseman (33) (Photo: John T. Greilick, Detroit News) That’s the life of a long snapper, after all. If you’re talking about him, it’s more than likely he made an enormous in-game mistake. But for the […]
How A Year Of Crumbs Made For The Best Stimulus Memes Yet
Refinery29 All The Lifestyle Products We’ve Tried & Loved In March After spending the vast majority of our time at home, R29’s collective household product game is pretty sophisticated. At least once a week, we get into a long Slack conversation about some cool new item that’s been absolutely saving […]
A year into COVID lockdowns, Americans who lost jobs are trying to stay afloat: “My industry is not moving”
One year after COVID-19 lockdowns forced many companies to close, the share of unemployed Americans who have been out of work for more than half a year has surged above 40%. The Añel family is just one example of these economic long-haulers. “CBS This Morning’ co-host Tony Dokoupil first met […]
How a year of Covid wrecked Britons’ teeth
Early last August I was doing my civic duty and eating out to help out when, upon biting down on what should have been an innocuous cod steak, I heard an unwelcome crunch. It was my first meal out in what felt like a million years – a birthday lunch for a close friend – and […]
A year of COVID-19 in MS tests nurses graduating from MGCCC
Graduating nursing students at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College share their stories about what it was like to be a student during the coronavirus pandemic. Alyssa Newton They balance hybrid classes, raising families and working on COVID floors in local hospitals during a deadly pandemic. Meet 90 MGCCC nursing students […]
After pandemic year, weary world looks back
No one has been untouched. Not the Michigan woman who awakened one morning, her wife dead by her side. Not the domestic worker in Mozambique, her livelihood threatened by the virus. Not the North Carolina mother who struggled to keep her business and her family going amid rising anti-Asian ugliness. […]
After pandemic year, weary world looks back — and forward
No one has been untouched. Not the Michigan woman who awakened one morning, her wife dead by her side. Not the domestic worker in Mozambique, her livelihood threatened by the virus. Not the North Carolina mother who struggled to keep her business and her family going amid rising anti-Asian ugliness. […]
A year after a father’s COVID-19 death, a family confronts their loss
Day after day, Abby Adair Reinhard slumped out of her home office around dinnertime, her father’s death from COVID-19 still fresh in her mind. Working to keep her flooring business afloat and worried about her mother’s health, she had little time for her three young kids. “I would come out […]
‘We cannot make the same mistakes as last year’
Boris Johnson has promised that Britain’s lockdown exit strategy will be “cautious but irreversible”, insisting that he wants this third national lockdown to be the UK’s last. The ‘stay at home’ message will be dropped and the Prime Minister has said that the priority for Britain’s exit strategy will be […]
A year after a father’s COVID death, a family confronts their loss
Day after day, Abby Adair Reinhard slumped out of her home office around dinnertime, her father’s abrupt COVID-19 death still fresh in her mind. Working to keep her flooring business afloat and worried about her mother’s health, she had little time for her three young kids. “I would come out […]