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The shock of the coronavirus is hitting the economy like another Great Depression — and Americans aren’t alone in their misery. A tsunami of job losses and welfare claims in Britain, the European Union and Asia in the last two weeks parallel the 10 million unemployment claims in the US as businesses around the world …
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Walmart will begin limiting the number of customers inside stores Saturday to encourage social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. Only five customers per 1,000 feet will be allowed in, and workers will be tasked with admitting them one-by-one into the store, according to Reuters. “While many of our customers have been following the advice of …
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at an indoor training center at the USTA Billie Jean King United States Tennis Center, which will be partially converted into temporary hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, March 31, 2020. New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday said the city administration had …
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A federal agency reportedly shipped face masks overseas from a Miami warehouse even as a nearby Veterans Affairs hospital was rationing them due to the coronavirus outbreak. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had a warehouse of face masks sitting unused in Miami while a Veterans Affairs hospital in the city was telling its …
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It’s another celebrity coronavirus case, but this one’s with a twist: It’s in the past! Pink, 40, revealed Friday night that she had caught and recovered from a case of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. “Two weeks ago my three-year-old son, Jameson, and I [were] showing symptoms of COVID-19,” the note from Pink’s Twitter begins. “Fortunately, …
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Joe Douglas began his conference call with reporters Wednesday by apologizing for any background noise from “children screaming and the dog barking.” Like many Americans, the Jets general manager is adjusting to working from home as the country deals with the COVID-19 shutdown. The Jets had a small staff in their Florham Park headquarters for …
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“Power” actress Naturi Naughton is doing her part to help out in the pandemic by handing out 100 meals a day in New Jersey. “You see a lot of people are going grocery shopping, but everyone cannot afford groceries right now,” Naughton told Page Six. “A lot of parents are used to their child being …
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“Def Comedy Jam” is to return for the first time since 1997 with the special “Healing Through Laughter,” a stand-up show to help raise funds for protective equipment for “workers and people in vulnerable and underserved communities” struggling with the pandemic. The show — which aired on HBO from 1992 to 1997 — will be …
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JPMorgan pressured its traders to come into work despite a coronavirus outbreak on its Midtown trading floor, a new report alleges — and now nearly two dozen traders are sick and another 65 are in quarantine. In just three weeks some 20 employees on one floor in the investment bank’s Madison Avenue headquarters have tested …
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Actor Logan Williams, who played a young Barry Allen in the CW’s “The Flash,” died suddenly Thursday at age 16. No cause of death was given. The show’s star, Grant Gustin, expressed his anguish on Instagram Friday, posting a photo with Williams and actor Jesse L. Martin taken during the filming of the series pilot …
The shock of the coronavirus is hitting the economy like another Great Depression — and Americans aren’t alone in their misery. A tsunami of job losses and welfare claims in Britain, the European Union and Asia in the last two weeks parallel the 10 million unemployment claims in the US as businesses around the world …
