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Thanks to social distancing guidelines, he wasn’t in the room where it happened. But Lin-Manuel Miranda managed to take part in a staff briefing at one of New York’s largest hospitals to thank its workers who are battling the city’s horrific COVID-19 outbreak. New York Presbyterian’s executive vice president, Dr. Laura Forese, gives a live …

Actor John Krasinski surprised a little girl with a “Hamilton” reunion on the second episode of his YouTube series “Some Good News” Sunday night. Original cast members, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo all joined in via Zoom to perform the song “Alexander Hamilton” from the show …

Miranda Lambert has broken her silence about the coronavirus pandemic, stressing it was initially hard for her to put her thoughts into words. The country crooner, 36, took to Instagram Friday to share a photo of a touching gift she received from her parents this week while she and husband Brendan McLoughlin remain at home …

The family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran over ten years ago, has announced that U.S. officials believe he died in the intervening years. “We recently received information from U.S. officials that has led both them and us to conclude that our wonderful husband and father died while in …

Composers in isolation are taking their chops to Twitter with the idea of raising dough for furloughed Broadway workers. Musical megastar Andrew Lloyd Webber started the trend Thursday, playing the show-stopping “All I Ask of You” from his “Phantom of the Opera” musical. The cooped-up Twitterati were ticked by Webber’s tinkling of the ivories. “I …

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon and Robert De Niro are among the New York celebs who pack a short video sending words of thanks and encouragement to the city’s health care workers on the front lines of the fight against coronavirus. “Hello, this is a message to all the health care workers out there,” “Hamilton” creator …

President Trump last week rejected an aggressive response to attacks by Iran-backed militias on U.S. forces in Iraq, because he thought an attack on Iranian forces would look bad while the country and the world are fighting the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, NBC reported on Thursday. On March 11, Iran-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah killed two American …

The U.S. imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Wednesday and called on the state terror sponsor to release detained Americans