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From mutating strains to controversial vaccine mandates, the coronavirus pandemic has forced demanding questions and pressure on New York business. Small business owners are finding ways to survive the virus unknowns and look past the pressing hurdles. Over the summer, Facebook and the Small Business Roundtable conducted a survey with more than 35,000 small business leaders, across 30 countries and…

A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019 and business was booming for Stacey Toussaint, founder of diversity and inclusion-centered Inside Out Tours. But when the coronavirus pandemic brought the city to a standstill, Toussaint was left to figure out how to keep her tourism business running when there simply were no tourists.

Eunice Newton Foote’s research foreshadowed how both climate change and women would be treated by society.

Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, according to research published Wednesday.

Kevin Kisner birdied the second extra hole to win a record-tying six-man playoff at the 2021 Wyndham Championship on Sunday.

Learn about the history of Labor Day and how it became the celebration it is today.

Early Sunday morning flanked by a sea of 25 vehicles, the Douglas F4D Skyray aircraft made its way to prepare for its 177 mile long journey to its new home at The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

It was an exciting day here in the Capitol City as a historic airplane made its momentous journey through Hartford and on to Charter Oak Landing. Early Sunday morning flanked by a sea of 25 vehicles, the Douglas F4D Skyray aircraft made its way to prepare for its 177 mile long journey to its new home at The Intrepid Sea,…

NBC Connecticut’s Kevin Nathan shares the history of the Olympic Games, and explores this year’s venues in Tokyo!

NBC Connecticut anchor Mike Hydeck and his daughter Molly show you how to make your own paper Olympic torch!

The United States dominates in terms of gold medals with over 1,060 of them won since the first game in Athens, but could the nation’s success at the Olympics be based around sending more athletes than their competitors?

Take a look into where summer camps began and how they turned into what they are today.

New York City’s Stonewall Inn was the site of a six day protest in 1969 against police harassment and discrimination against the LGBTQ community. It is remembered today as being a turning-point in the movement for acceptance and equality.

The fierce monuments honor an English colonist who, legend has it, slaughtered her Native American captors after the gruesome killing of her baby. But the statues to Hannah Duston — one in Massachusetts where she grips a hatchet and another in New Hampshire where she clutches a bundle of scalps — are being reconsidered amid the nationwide reckoning on racism…

Amie Wirth, of New Britain, made it her mission to find the family of a WWII veteran whose dog tags were in a sewing basket she bought at a thrift store.

If you were on the internet in April 2019, you may recognize computer scientist Katie Bouman, who went viral after her team captured the world’s first image of a black hole and her thrilled reaction was captured on camera. That breakthrough prompted a Wikipedia volunteer to draft her biography for the digital encyclopedia. But the same day, it was nearly…

There are several reasons why women are underrepresented in Wikipedia entries. One reason is that the volunteer community that edits the free encyclopedia is overwhelmingly male. Today, a volunteer team is working to write missing women back into the historical record.

A 1721 smallpox outbreak, one of many Boston faced in its early years, led to the introduction in what is now the United States of inoculation, a medical advancement that saved many lives. And often overlooked in the history of that inoculation is an enslaved man named Onesimus.