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Jill Martin saw a crisis and seized an opportunity. The “Today” show lifestyle contributor, 44, exclusively told Page Six Style that she’s releasing a new hand sanitizer in a couple of weeks under her Potion 54 line for QVC. “It’s a love potion, and 54 is the numeric equivalent of love. … I was thinking …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott rolled back his state’s reopening process on Friday as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to soar in Texas. “As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10%, the State of Texas would take further action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Abbott said in a statement. “At this …

New York state Democratic lawmakers will open an inquiry into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, the Niagra Gazette reported on Friday. Around 6,300 residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities in New York have died during the pandemic, accounting for roughly one quarter of the state’s total coronavirus deaths.  …

The US economy may not shake its bad case of the coronavirus for another two and a half years, a new economic forecast warns. The nation is in for a gradual economic recovery from the “depression-like crisis” sparked by the pandemic, with production and employment likely to remain under pressure through the end of 2022, …

Why I think that those who criticize the Christian artistic tradition for always presenting Christ as a northern European are wrong and it reveals a Eurocentric bias in their interpretation of history. The following first appeared in January 2016. I am reposting it as a response to the recent highly publicized calls in the US …

The Senate passed a bill on Thursday that places sanctions on individuals, entities, and banks that help facilitate greater Chinese control over Hong Kong. Senator Kevin Cramer (R., N.D.), a co-sponsor of the legislation, blocked the bill’s passage last week at the request of the White House. The bill was amended with minor “technical” changes …

Actor Tituss Burgess said that this week he “had the most minor impasse with three cops.” The “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” star said on Jess Cagle’s SiriusXM show: “They crossed the road [on foot] to cut me off. I just paused a bit to give them some distance … It was clear that they wanted to …

Labor unions for aviation workers want Congress to pass another $32 billion bailout to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs as the coronavirus pandemic keeps airlines in a chokehold. Six unions warned lawmakers that “mass layoffs are inevitable” without another round of payroll aid to keep airline workers employed through at least the end of …

It was the second week of January, and Robert F. Smith could see the economic damage in China wash across his computer screen in Denver. Weekly reports of tracking data from his more than 60 software companies showed that many Chinese businesses, particularly smaller ones, were slowly grinding to a halt as the coronavirus outbreak …

The Government Accountability Office revealed in a new report that almost 1.1 million dead people received coronavirus relief checks from the government that totaled nearly $1.4 billion. The GAO explains that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department “moved quickly” to send out over 160 million payments to Americans as authorized by the …