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LinkedIn plans to cut about 960 jobs as the coronavirus pandemic delivers a blow to its corporate recruiting business. The cuts, which represent about 6 percent of the Microsoft-owned networking platform’s workforce, will be concentrated in its sales and hiring divisions, CEO Ryan Roslansky told employees late Monday. Roslansky cast the cuts as difficult but …

A group of economists and business leaders urged Congress on Monday to include healthcare price transparency in the next COVID-19 stimulus package. In a letter sent to President Trump and other GOP leadership, signatories — including former House speaker Newt Gingrich, Forbes Media chairman and CEO Steve Forbes, former state treasurer of Ohio Ken Blackwell …

A California pastor has promised to keep his church’s doors open for worship, bucking a new mandate from the governor ordering houses of worship to close once again as cases of the coronavirus spike across the state. Pastor Greg Fairrington of Destiny Christian Church in the northern California city of Rocklin announced last week that …

An early human trial of Oxford University’s experimental coronavirus vaccine has yielded a strong immune response in hundreds of people, according to newly released data. The potential vaccine, which the U.K. university developed in partnership with drugmaker AstraZeneca, was administered in a trial that involved 1,077 people and caused an immune response in people aged …

DJ LeMahieu played in his second exhibition game of spring training 2.0 on Monday night and will get plenty of at-bats Tuesday in simulated games against Yankee hurlers. Is it enough for the second baseman to be ready for Thursday’s Opening Day in Washington after reporting late to the Yankees’ camp due to COVID-19? “I …

The Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, famously became pariahs in country music after they criticized George W. Bush in 2003 for the war in Iraq. But singer Natalie Maines says Donald Trump has put things in perspective. “Today I might actually make out with George Bush,” she told Andy Cohen in an upcoming …

It’s hot as Mars outside, and everybody wants to be sitting in a freezing movie theater watching a two-hour action flick and forgetting how much everything sucks. Says the government: Too bad! Despite our impressive progress on containing the coronavirus in New York, our sweaty citizens still can’t just put on a mask and sit …

“The Handmaid’s Tale” star Yvonne Strahovski jumps from the dystopian confines of Gilead to a modern-day detention center in “Stateless.” The Netflix drama follows flight attendant Sofie Werner (Strahovski), who gets swept up in a New Age-y cult run by a cheerful couple played by Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”) and Dominic West (“The Affair”). When …

New York Fashion Week founder-turned-consultant Fern Mallis told us she applauds IMG for trying to make the shows happen in September. This week, designers were surveyed about various NYFW options, including online or in-person shows. “I applaud them for trying to create some business or some sense of normalcy,” Mallis told us. “I trust that …

That’s some pay raise. Tesla CEO Elon Musk added a whopping $5 billion to his net worth on Monday thanks to Tesla’s never-ending stock rally, allowing him to finish the day as the fifth-richest person in the world with a net worth of $74.2 billion. Musk, who as recently as a few weeks ago was …