Exclusive | Almost half of NYC homeless deaths tied to drug overdoses or alcohol abuse: study

Almost half of the deaths of New York City’s homeless population were tied to drugs and alcohol, an eye-opening new report found. Some 285 of the 634 homeless residents who died in a one-year stretch from 2024-25 lost their lives because of drug addiction, overdoses or alcoholism, the Departments of Health and Social Services/Homeless Services said in its 2026 report. The analysis, which covers documented deaths from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, includes deaths in temporary shelters as well as on the streets, in subways, abandoned properties or while in an acquaintance’s home. Most homeless people — 58%…

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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow–And Even Hire More Workers

A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…

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Basketball Hall of Famer Don Nelson dead at 86

Don Nelson, a former NBA player and head coach who is in the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died, his family announced on Sunday. He was 86.Nelson played in the NBA from 1963 to 1976 and was a head coach in the league from 1977 to 2010.CLICK HERE FOR MORE…

Former PGA Tour player Matt McQuillan suddenly passes away at just 45 years old

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former PGA Tour player Matt McQuillan has died at 45 years old.The Canadian from Kingston, Ontario, died on Aug. 5 “surrounded by his family,” according to an obituary published in the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper.McQuillan earned a scholarship to play collegiately at Oklahoma…

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Masterminds behind California Forever plea for Gavin Newsom’s help

The billionaires behind a proposed California utopian city are making a last-ditch push for Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers to clear hurdles they say are standing in the way of the massive project. California Forever, a proposed new community on 25,000 acres in Solano County, wants the state to approve…

POLITICS.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to what the Senate did and didn’t do overnight

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Senate wrapped up its summer session at 4:57 a.m. ET.Senators knocked two major items off their checklist. They confirmed Todd Blanche as the nation’s 88th Attorney General. They also approved a bipartisan interim spending bill that likely goes a long way toward…

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT.

Bride-to-be sounds alarm after popular beauty treatment left her disfigured before the big day

A bride-to-be who wanted to look “like a princess” on her wedding day ended up looking far worse than that after a severe allergic reaction to a fake eyelash treatment. Polly Bibby, 26, an illustrator, decided to try classic eyelash extensions ahead of her big day compared to her usual minimal makeup look. She had a patch test done, she said, according to Kennedy News & Media — and since she suffered no reaction, she went ahead with the procedure in early July, before her wedding day. After getting the treatment done — which cost her about $88, she said — she was initially happy…

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