• Gucci parent company left naked amid lower demand from Chinese shoppers

    Gucci parent company left naked amid lower demand from Chinese shoppers

    Gucci sales were hit hard at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis due to its strong reliance on Chinese customers, owner Kering said on Tuesday, though it added that the Italian brand should be well positioned for a recovery. Kering sales fell 15.4 percent, to $3.47 billion, in the first quarter, affected, like its rivals, …
  • Bluetooth apps that track coronavirus exposure show positive early results

    Bluetooth apps that track coronavirus exposure show positive early results

    When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million people had 385 cases of infections. But even as cases in the country — which is in lockdown — have surged past 9,000, …
  • European tourism could drop 70 percent due to coronavirus

    European tourism could drop 70 percent due to coronavirus

    The European Union says its vaunted tourist industry is facing “staggering” figures of decline because of the coronavirus crisis and the bloc’s internal market commissioner wants the sector to be first in line when it comes to recovery funds. Thierry Breton mentioned figures that the tourism economy could slump up to 70 percent and will …
  • Cecily Strong opens up about grieving her cousin while in quarantine

    Cecily Strong opens up about grieving her cousin while in quarantine

    Cecily Strong penned an essay about mourning her cousin Owen, who died of brain cancer this year, as well as navigating a new romantic relationship, while in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m in the middle of my two-week quarantine in my tiny apartment in New York. I’ve cried every day,” she wrote in the …
  • New York seeks $4B loan from US to cover unemployment tab

    New York seeks $4B loan from US to cover unemployment tab

    New York has applied for a $4 billion federal loan to help cover the ballooning cost of unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus crisis, officials said. The Empire State could use the interest-free line of credit from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund to pay for unemployment insurance benefits as needed over time, a state official said …
  • Pop stars who soared in movies — and the ones who bombed

    Pop stars who soared in movies — and the ones who bombed

    We knew they could sing, but how long did it take some singers to “pop” on the big screen? Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley and other movie stars of yore were able to do a little bit of everything: singin’, dancin’, actin’. These days, such talent is rarer than hand sanitizer at Duane Reade. …
  • ‘Mighty Ducks’ star Shaun Weiss appears healthier in new photo, pal says he’s ‘thriving’

    ‘Mighty Ducks’ star Shaun Weiss appears healthier in new photo, pal says he’s ‘thriving’

    Troubled “Mighty Ducks” star Shaun Weiss has been “thriving” since entering rehab following his drug-related arrest earlier this year, a close pal said on Facebook. Drew Gallagher, who has been posting frequent updates about Weiss, shared a new photo of the 41-year-old on March 26 that shows the former actor appearing to have put on …
  • Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner donate 100 meals to LA hospital

    Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner donate 100 meals to LA hospital

    Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner thanked healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic by donating 100 meals to a hospital in Los Angeles. On Monday, Fueling The Fearless — a non-profit dedicated to “feeding tireless hospital workers at the front lines of COVID-19” — posted an image of the staff at East LA Doctors Hospital …
  • On the Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, President Trump Affirms Our Right to Protest Wuhan Virus Lockdowns

    On the Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, President Trump Affirms Our Right to Protest Wuhan Virus Lockdowns

    There is a growing protest movement across the country in response to the draconian and blatantly illegal lockdown orders being flung about by various governors and mayors who seem to have forgotten a) how they got in office and b) that there is a Constitution. At RedState, we’ve covered the protests in Michigan (colleagues Betsy …
  • Apple plans to crank out more iPhones despite sagging demand: report

    Apple plans to crank out more iPhones despite sagging demand: report

    Despite a predicted drop in demand, Apple is planning on upping iPhone production by 4 percent year-over-year through March 2021, according to a report. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company plans to crank out 213 million iPhones over the next 12 months, according to Japanese service Nikkei. It will be a roughly even split between the newly …