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Cash-strapped Gap Inc. on Wednesday laid out plans to reopen stores in areas where lockdown curbs have eased, while also introducing social-distancing measures. Retailers are trying to restart business activity brought to a standstill due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. Their stores have remained closed for weeks and have resulted in thousands of workers being laid …
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Rap legend Nas has paid tribute to his Queens protégé Kiing Shooter, who died this week, reportedly of complications from the coronavirus. “This is never easy. One of Queensbridge’s finest,” Nas’ Street Dreams Records, Nas’ label with his brother Jungle, wrote on Instagram Tuesday when confirming the 24-year-old rising star’s death. “Rest in paradise,” they …
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Someone’s on the other line. Rulon Gardner will call right back. It has been nearly 20 years since you first met the legend, who outmuscled logic and outlasted an immortal. It was in Sydney where the first line of a 29-year-old’s obituary was written, where Gardner pulled “The Miracle on the Mat” by handing Aleksandr …
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While Main Streets throughout the country are moving to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns, Wall Street is sending clear signals that it is in no rush to get back in the office. In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Capital One Financial’s chief executive Richard Fairbanks announced that the $370 billion bank will keep all non-essential …
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In rolling out their coronavirus tracking system to developers, Apple and Google have confirmed that it will ban location tracking by other official apps. But the decision, which prioritizes privacy and preventing governments from using the system to compile data on citizens, could complicate things for state governments looking to track coronavirus outbreaks. State governments …
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Nikki Bella opens up about being raped twice as a teenager in her new memoir, “Incomparable.” The former WWE star shares in the book, co-written by her twin sister Brie Bella, that she was first attacked at the age of 15 by a fellow student she “thought was a friend.” “My virginity was stolen from …
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Apple on Monday unveiled a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, officially discontinuing its last remaining model with the much-hated “butterfly” keyboard. The new Pro, which starts at $1,299, features a keyboard modeled after the company’s popular Magic Keyboard that’s based on an older, scissor-like mechanism. Apple four months ago released a 16-inch MacBook Pro model with …
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That was quick. Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman is engaged to Francie Frane, just 10 months after his wife Beth Chapman‘s death and his ersatz proposal to Moon Angell. Beth died at 51 years old in June 2019 following a battle with throat cancer. Dog, 67, and Frane, 51, detailed how the reality TV …
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Think extreme poverty rates rise under capitalism? Think again—the truth might surprise you. The Rich and the Poor Under Capitalism You might have heard the phrase, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” Yes, it’s true that the rich (tend to) get richer, but the poor get richer too—especially if we look at …
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Noah Syndergaard isn’t the only star pitcher going shirtless around here. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman on Saturday shared an Instagram video of himself tossing pitches partially unclad, and it seems his massive muscles only continue to grow during baseball’s coronavirus shutdown. “Bullpen day,” the 32-year-old pitcher wrote alongside the social-media post. Long regarded as one …
Cash-strapped Gap Inc. on Wednesday laid out plans to reopen stores in areas where lockdown curbs have eased, while also introducing social-distancing measures. Retailers are trying to restart business activity brought to a standstill due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. Their stores have remained closed for weeks and have resulted in thousands of workers being laid …
