• How Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Ricky Martin came to star in Residente’s PDA-packed video

    How Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Ricky Martin came to star in Residente’s PDA-packed video

    Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have immortalized their love in Residente’s latest music video. The Hollywood couple are among 113 others from 80 countries who packed on the PDA for the Puerto Rican rapper’s new song “Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe,” which translates in English to “Before the World Ends.” A source exclusively …
  • DraftKings reports steeper-than-expected loss amid sports shutdown

    DraftKings reports steeper-than-expected loss amid sports shutdown

    DraftKings reported a steeper-than-expected loss as live sports events were canceled worldwide, but played down concerns that the coronavirus crisis will cripple its betting business in the longer term. In its first earnings report as a public company, the online sports-betting behemoth — which went public last month via a blank-check company merger — reported …
  • Two more Amazon worker deaths push its coronavirus toll to seven

    Two more Amazon worker deaths push its coronavirus toll to seven

    Two Amazon warehouse workers in Indiana have reportedly died of the coronavirus, pushing the company’s death toll to at least seven. The e-commerce giant learned Wednesday that COVID-19 had killed an employee at its facility in Jeffersonville, near Louisville, Kentucky, according to local CBS affiliate WLKY. The unidentified worker was diagnosed with the disease on …
  • Hue Jackson wasn’t aware of any Russell Wilson-Browns trade talks

    Hue Jackson wasn’t aware of any Russell Wilson-Browns trade talks

    It seems like every day, new stories of the Cleveland Browns’ dysfunction leak out – even from bygone eras. Before the Seattle Seahawks made Russell Wilson the NFL’s highest paid player, they entertained the idea of trading him to the Browns, according to Pro Football Talk. But Hue Jackson – Cleveland’s beleaguered head coach who …
  • Sen. Kelly Loeffler gives feds records related to insider trading claims

    Sen. Kelly Loeffler gives feds records related to insider trading claims

    Sen. Kelly Loeffler gave the feds records related to her stock trades amid questions about sales she made before the coronavirus hammered global markets, according to reports. The Georgia Republican forwarded documents to the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee, her office told media outlets in a …
  • Amanda Kloots opens up about Nick Cordero’s mental state, lung infection

    Amanda Kloots opens up about Nick Cordero’s mental state, lung infection

    Broadway actor Nick Cordero is “stronger every day” now that he has awakened from a medically-induced coma after a months battle with the coronavirus, his wife, Amanda Kloots said Thursday, cautioning that Cordero is still not out of the woods yet. Although Cordero, 41, is conscious and responding to commands Kloots, 38, said on her Instagram …
  • China's capture of the WHO, and make it turn from public health to crass politics

    China's capture of the WHO, and make it turn from public health to crass politics

    The coronavirus pandemic has revealed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has corrupted the World Health Organization (WHO), under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO pursued politics over public health by helping Beijing spread disinformation about the outbreak and excluding Taiwan and its wealth of knowledge about the disease. American decision-makers …
  • The pernicious health effects of covid-19 are concentrated among older people, but But the economic effects are hurting the young and poor.

    The pernicious health effects of covid-19 are concentrated among older people, but But the economic effects are hurting the young and poor.

    The pernicious health effects of covid-19 are concentrated among older people, but it is the young and especially low-income Americans who suffer the greatest harm from the country’s disease-mitigating shutdown policies. The bleak jobs data released last week, showing that more than 20 million Americans were thrown out of work in April, was just the …
  • The new $3 Trillion stimulus bill for all Americans straining under pension debt.

    The new $3 Trillion stimulus bill for all Americans straining under pension debt.

    The new bill includes another round of stimulus checks for all Americans, funds additional coronavirus testing, and spends billions to bail out states and government agencies straining under pension debt. Another stimulus bill could be on its way through Congress by the end of the week, as House Democrats on Tuesday announced plans for $3 …
  • MLB’s coronavirus reopening plan easily could become chaos

    MLB’s coronavirus reopening plan easily could become chaos

    “Because I said so!” may have worked for our dads and for drill sergeants, but it’s terribly ineffective in medicine. As a practical matter, does the practical matter? So let’s say the MLB season — the MLB often so short on foresight — begins this season as per whatever format and schedule agreed upon, say …