New York City’s annual Columbus Day Parade returns Monday after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down last year’s event. The parade kicks off at 11:30 a.m., heading up Fifth Ave. from

Drugmaker Merck asked the federal government Monday to approve what would be the first COVID-19 antiviral pill, a potentially groundbreaking treatment that could ease the burden on overwhelmed hospitals across

A 14-year-old boy was shot in his Queens home Sunday, police said. The youngster was in his house on 243rd St. near 136th Ave. in Rosedale when a gunman burst

Federal inmates in Brooklyn are paid a pittance to fix up the homes of their jailers, toiling in a work detail that one former inmate compared to slave labor. The

A 27-year-old woman is dead after a shootout in a St. Paul, Minnesota, bar in which 14 others were wounded. It was early Sunday morning, around 12:15 a.m., “when multiple

Southwest Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights this weekend, ruining the plans of thousands of pandemic-weary travelers. In a media statement on Twitter, the airline blamed bad weather combined with

He’s a crime-buster. And a “Ghostbuster.” NYPD veteran Christopher DeFlorio’s pursuit of evil-doers doesn’t end when his shift does: The self-proclaimed “religious demonologist” spends his off-duty hours investigating the supernatural

An Ohio fifth-grader, and the youngest pro-mask person at a school board meeting in Cuyahoga Falls this week, spoke up to “inappropriate” anti-maskers who tried to heckle her. Kaylan Park,

A Massachusetts man who staged his own suicide in a bid to avoid punishment for defrauding the government out of $543,000 in COVID-19 relief loans was sentenced to more than

A Colorado father found guilty of killing his teen son, who mistakenly uncovered his collection of fetish photos, has been sentenced to 48 years behind bars. Mark Redwine was convicted