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Quarantine hasn’t stopped these seniors from rocking. North London’s Sydmar Lodge Care Home has been under lockdown for four months, but restricted living hasn’t curtailed residents’ creativity: The nursing home’s seniors and carers alike have been spending their time re-creating classic album covers. In a now viral tweet, the home’s activities coordinator, Robert Speker, posted …

The “happiest place on Earth” is doing its best to convince visitors it is also among the safest. Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida reopened its doors to guests on July 11, three months after shutting them in March at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Masked staff welcomed back visitors to the Magic Kingdom …

The debate over COVID-19 lockdowns has thrust Sweden into the global spotlight. Anders Tegnell, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said he’s confident Sweden’s approach is the right one. As nations around the world begin to ease lockdown restrictions passed amid the scariest pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu, a new battle is brewing among …

Lifting the MBL cap would help small businesses and low-income families disproportionately impacted by the lockdowns. With the country solidly in a recession and Congress in fiscal gridlock, it is sensible to allow private banking institutions to maximize their services to small businesses. There are billions of dollars in untapped resources across the nation that …

Sheltering in place is causing Americans to get a little, well, squirrelly. So many folks have time on their hands because of coronavirus-spurred joblessness and lockdowns, they’re paying more attention to the bushy tailed rodents scampering outside their windows — and opening their wallets to make them happy, according to a Wall Street Journal story Friday. …

It is painful to watch our national crisis unfold. As American cities descend into chaos, small businesses continue to collapse, and millions are thrown out of work, two lines from a poem by William Butler Yeats comes to mind: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, Worries race …

With absolutely nothing to pop the bubbly over during the coronavirus pandemic, Champagne sales are fizzling out. The widespread closure of restaurants and bars — not to mention cancelled events such as weddings, bar mitzvahs and sporting occasions — are causing the bottom to fall out of the market. Despite other types of booze seeing …

America’s 98-year-old Golden Girl, Betty White, has become a pro at social distancing — and jokes that boozing is getting her through the lockdown, according to reports. “I’m blessed with incredibly good health,” White proudly told Closer Magazine. “That’s something you appreciate a lot,” she told the UK mag. White’s rep told the “Today” show …

US stocks posted shaky gains Tuesday as Wall Street nervously tracked states attempting to reopen their economies. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as much as 160.10 points, or 0.6 percent, to 24,382.09 in early trading before dipping into the red and then recovering. The blue-chip index up 28.79 points, or 0.1 percent, at of …

When the soundtrack of the coronavirus crisis is played back years from now, it will be the uplifting sets of DJ D-Nice that capture the musical moment. The Bronx-born spinmaster, 49, has kept the party — and listeners’ spirits — going with his epic, hourslong sessions from “Club Quarantine,” broadcast on Instagram Live every weekend. (He …