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Helping yourself to free refills at your local fast-food joint could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to the coronavirus. As it begins to reopen some 15,000 Burger King, Popeye’s and Tim Hortons locations across North America, fast-food giant Restaurant Brands International said Tuesday it’s zeroing in on areas vulnerable to infection — …

Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is blaming the coronavirus for Quibi’s bumpy start. The short-form mobile video app, whose name is short for “quick bites,” gained 1.7 million views in its first week after an April 6 launch. But it quickly fell off the Apple Store’s 50 most downloaded free iPhone apps after and is currently …

Popeyes plans to open its first restaurant in China this week despite the coronavirus pandemic hammering the industry. The Cajun-inspired chain’s Shanghai chicken joint will open Friday as parent company Restaurant Brands International embarks on an expansion strategy that will see 1,500 Popeyes stores open in China over 10 years. The effort is in partnership …

Fox Sports’ first year covering the US Open turned in the worst day of Holly Sonders’ life. The former TV reporter retold the story on Paige Spiranac’s “Playing A Round” podcast this week of four scrutinized days at Chambers Bay golf course in 2015, when the network’s coverage after taking over for NBC was as …

Priyanka Chopra isn’t giving up her stilettos just because she’s stuck at home. The 37-year-old movie star, who’s been quarantining in Los Angeles with husband Nick Jonas, told InStyle that she’s been wearing her beloved Christian Louboutin heels with all her casual outfits. “They look good with sweatpants!” she exclaimed. “If you want to feel …

President Trump on Tuesday weighed in on Tesla’s spat with California over reopening its factory there, tweeting on Tuesday that the electric automaker should be allowed to return to production despite continued COVID-19 restrictions imposed by local officials. “California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW,” the commander-in-chief tweeted early Tuesday morning. “It …

Even Meghan McCain is missing hair salons. The “View” host, 35, showed off her gray roots on Instagram Monday, revealing that the two months she’s been social distancing at home is the longest she’s ever gone without dyeing her platinum blond hair. “No lies about ‘lighting,’ ‘dry shampoo’ or at home treatments here,” she wrote. …

You don’t have to “wait for it” — the film version of hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” is airing over a year ahead of schedule. It will stream on Disney+ starting July 3, moved up from its original fall 2021 release date. Disney CEO Bob Iger and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared on “Good Morning America” …

Americans have just one more day to speed up delivery of their coronavirus stimulus checks. The Internal Revenue Service set a deadline of noon Wednesday for taxpayers to submit direct-deposit information online to have the money dropped straight into their bank accounts. Those who don’t use the IRS’s “Get My Payment” tool to do so …

Amanda Kloots said that her husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero, is “starting to follow commands” amid his ongoing recovery from COVID-19. “He is very, very, very weak still so it is very slow progress when they ask him to do things, but that you can see he is trying, which is awesome,” Kloots said on …