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People walk near the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 30, 2024. (Peter Morgan / Associated Press) U.S. stocks climbed Thursday after market superstar Nvidia and other companies said they’re making even fatter profits than expected. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed 0.5% higher after flipping between gains and losses several times during Thursday trading. … Read more

Advance Auto Parts plans to close more than 725 locations around the country as well as four distribution centers on the West Coast. (Tierney L. Cross / Getty Images) A plan by Advance Auto Parts to stem deepening losses by closing hundreds of stores will result “in a complete exit of certain markets on the … Read more

Legendary New York City TV anchor Chuck Scarborough is leaving WNBC after 50 years, The Post has learned. Scarborough, 81, is expected to break the news to viewers during Thursday’s 6 p.m. broadcast of NBC News 4 New York, according to a source close to the situation. The Emmy Award-winning newsman informed his colleagues at … Read more

Percival Everett’s novel “James” is told from the perspective of Jim, Huck’s unlikely companion in the Mark Twain classic “Huckleberry Finn.” (Andy Kropa / Invision / Associated Press) Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Published in March to widespread … Read more

Paul Mescal in “Gladiator II.” AP Paul Mescal is maybe a little too good at his job. The 28-year-old actor honed his body for “Gladiator II” so exquisitely that the filmmakers made him go shirtless for as many scenes as possible, according to his personal trainer Tim Blakeley.  In an interview with The Post, Blakeley … Read more

“Survivor 47” star Gabe Ortis is clearing up his final words after he was eliminated. On Wednesday’s episode, it appeared that the 26-year-old radio show host called his ally Caroline Vidmar a “snake” for voting him out. And while Vidmar did betray him, Ortis exclusively told The Post that the comment was actually directed at … Read more

Kaia Gerber attends The Hollywood Reporter and Instagram: Next Gen 2024 at Holloway House on November 20, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Kaia Gerber has a sizzling confession. The model, 23, told the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday that the “most Hollywood thing” to happen in her life was going to … Read more

Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, have donated $110.5 million to help fight homelessness. On Thursday, the Amazon founder — whose estimated net worth, according to Forbes, is $214.6 billion — and the former news anchor announced that the money will go to 40 different organizations that focus on family homelessness. “With homelessness on … Read more

A deadly outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to a massive recall of popular Boar’s Head deli meats is over, federal health officials said Thursday. Ten people died and 61 were sickened in 19 states after eating listeria-contaminated Boar’s Head products, including liverwurst. Illnesses were reported between late May and mid-September, according to the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more

Three “notorious kleptocrats” — including a Ukrainian oligarch wanted in the US — were sanctioned by the British government on Thursday in a bid to tackle dirty money flowing through the UK, officials said. Dmytro Firtash, a puppet of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Isabel dos Santos of Angola and Latvia’s Aivars Lembergs — along with some … Read more