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Thank you, Dolly. Renowned Broadway and Film veteran Bette Midler has promised to match donations up to $100,000 for the Broadway Cares/ Equity fights AIDS’ Covid-19 fund says Deadline. Broadway Cares launched the fund in early march with an initial donation of $250,000. Since then, initiatives to raise money for the fund have included The …

Slovenia is declaring itself as the first European country to bring an end to the coronavirus within its borders. The European Union state’s government said Friday the COVID-19 spread is under control and there is no longer a need for extraordinary health measures. “Today Slovenia has the best epidemic situation in Europe, which enables us to call off the …

House Democrats passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Friday despite trepidation from some moderate and progressive Democratic lawmakers about the effectiveness of the package. The massive relief package, dubbed the HEROES Act, passed the lower chamber in a 208 to 199 vote Friday evening. Fourteen Democrats bucked party leadership to vote against the bill, and …

A Colorado county coroner says that state officials overruled him in classifying a man who had died from alcohol poisoning as a death due to coronavirus. The 35-year-old man was found lying dead in a city park in Cortez by police, and Montezuma County Coroner George Deavers determined he had died of acute alcohol poisoning, …

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said Friday that the panel will hold hearings to probe the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. “We’re looking into all of this,” Nadler said. “We are going to hold hearings on the Flynn matter,” Nadler told CNN’s …

China is preparing to place U.S. companies including Apple and Boeing on an “unreliable entities list” in response to newly announced sanctions on tech giant Huawei. “China will take forceful countermeasures to protect its own legitimate rights,” a source told China’s government-owned Global Times. The country could cease purchasing planes made by Boeing, and impose restrictions …

Hungary Prime Minister Victor Orban said Friday that he would give up his far-reaching coronavirus emergency powers later this month, despite fears that the nationalist leader would use the authority to consolidate power. “We expect the government will be able to return the special powers to tackle the coronavirus pandemic to parliament at the end …

Billy Zane is hoping that his humanitarian efforts to raise money to fight COVID-19 will end the question that haunts him from the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic” as to why Rose didn’t share her raft to save Jack. “I would like to think of the positive ramifications of COVID-19 is that it puts to rest such …

Bobby Marks, ESPN’s cap guru, predicts NBA free agency this summer will “slow to a crawl” and all players with opt-outs in their contracts will choose to opt in. That’s one economic fallout from the potentially massive salary-cap reduction because of the season’s March 11 shutdown. If all players are forced to opt in, that …

JCPenney filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday, the latest among traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to crumble as prolonged store closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic deliver the final blow to troubled businesses. The department store chain, known for selling family apparel, cosmetics and jewelry at roughly 850 locations, said it reached an agreement with creditors for …