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Hedge-fund tycoon Bill Ackman fired off a tweetstorm to President Trump on Wednesday, proposing that the US impose a nationwide “extended spring break” to combat the Chinese virus. In a series of early morning tweets addressed to Trump, the activist hedge fund manager proposed that he “shut down the country for the next 30 days …
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President Trump on Wednesday defended himself from the allegations of racism and xenophobia that were leveled in response to his calling the Wuhan coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” telling reporters that “it comes from China” and that “it’s not racist at all” to use the label. Trump used the term “Chinese virus” in a tweet Wednesday …
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The Chinese virus pandemic — and the quarantine it’s brought on — is fraying nerves. Wilson Chandler found that out Wednesday. A day after four Nets tested positive for COVID-19, Chandler was happily watching old movies when he got what he felt was a less-than-tactful call from his building manager. “Building manager called me saying …
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The Dow has lost all the gains it amassed since President Trump took office more than three years ago, sinking on Wednesday as fears about the coronavirus kneecapping the economy tightened their grip on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average got halted shortly after 1 p.m. by a marketwide “circuit breaker” as it plunged …
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After Vanessa Hudgens became the poster child for Chinese virus callousness with a tone-deaf post about the pandemic, Chrissy Teigen has unexpectedly come to her aid, telling Hudgens’ haters, “Just stop … the knives gotta go.” “High School Musical” star Hudgens faced a huge backlash on social media after she posted a flippant response to …
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The “America’s Next Top Model” host is postponing the opening of Modelland, a theme park opening in Santa Monica, Calif., amid the current Chinese virus outbreak
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Lala Kent and Randall Emmett will have to wait until July to say “I do.”
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Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler are planning to close all their U.S. factories due to the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic
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The U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Wednesday and called on the state terror sponsor to release detained Americans
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the U.S. Navy would be sending its 1,000-bed USNS Comfort floating hospital ship to New York