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Popular “Something Borrowed” author Emily Giffin apologized Wednesday after criticizing Meghan Markle’s recent appearance in a video with her son Archie on his first birthday. Earlier in the day, Giffin slammed the Duchess of Sussex, 38, as “unmaternal” and “phony,” according to an Instagram story capture. The 48-year-old author later posted a lengthy message to her …

Another 3.2 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus crisis sidelined 33 million workers in less than two months, the feds said Thursday. That suggests one in five US workers tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in the last seven weeks as the pandemic delivered an unprecedented gut punch to …

A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh whose department says he was close to “very significant findings” about Covid-19 was killed in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Dr. Bing Liu, a 37-year-old research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found shot dead in his home on May 2. A second …

Steven Mnuchin has an appetite for Twitter destruction. The treasury secretary and Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose traded barbs on Twitter Wednesday when Rose cursed out President Trump’s cabinet member. “It’s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he’s officially an asshole,” Rose tweeted Wednesday without any context. Mnuchin — apparently …

By the beginning of next week at the latest — perhaps even before this week is concluded — MLB is planning to present to the Players Association a proposal that will include what is currently the most optimistic hope: What would a season look like if spring training 2.0 began in June and the regular …

Dozens of Sundance Film Festival attendees fell ill on the heels of the star-studded event — in what one expert says may have been early, undiagnosed coronavirus cases, according to a report. The festival-goers — including actors, writers and industry honchos — were struck by fever, cough and shortness of breath after packed theater screenings …

The coronavirus pandemic is plunging the European Union into a recession, the European Commission said Wednesday in its spring economic forecast. Predicting a “recession of historic proportions,” the commission warned that the Eurozone economy will contract by 7.5 percent in 2020 — a record number that surpasses the damage caused by the 2009 financial crisis. …

US private employers laid off a record 20.236 million workers in April as mandatory business closures in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak savaged the economy, setting up the overall labor market for historic job losses last month. The plunge in private payrolls shown in the ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday suggested that national …

Former president Barack Obama accused Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) of giving “credence to a Russian disinformation campaign” by probing a possible conflict of interest between Hunter Biden’s business dealings and Joe Biden’s diplomatic work. In a March letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) — which maintains …

The coronavirus crisis is reportedly forcing US airlines to burn through more than $10 billion in cash each month as demand for travel evaporates. Industry group Airlines for America plans to detail the pandemic’s staggering cost at a Wednesday US Senate hearing on the state of the beleaguered aviation sector, Reuters reported. “The US airline …