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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Teddi Mellencamp was prepared for the spectacle that went down at her fitness retreat. A heated argument between Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley took center stage on Wednesday night’s episode, after Kyle, 51, attacked Dorit, 43, for showing up hours late to Teddi’s “All In” getaway — her first …

Another 3.2 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus crisis sidelined 33 million workers in less than two months, the feds said Thursday. That suggests one in five US workers tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in the last seven weeks as the pandemic delivered an unprecedented gut punch to …

Sen. Richard Burr and his brother-in-law reportedly dumped stocks on the same day before the coronavirus crisis sent global markets into a tailspin. National Mediation Board member Gerald Fauth — the brother of Burr’s wife — sold as much as $280,000 in shares on Feb. 13, roughly a week before the virus triggered a historic …

The biology department at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is in mourning after the shooting death of a scientist who it says was studying the biological makeup of the coronavirus and was on the “verge of making very significant findings toward understanding” the disease. Bing Liu, 37, a research assistant professor, was shot …

Theme park customers were weeks ahead of government action when it came to taking steps to protect themselves and families from the perceived risk of COVID-19. When new information becomes available to the general public about something that could affect their health and well-being such as a pandemic, do people wait for the government to …

The coronavirus pandemic showed the critical importance of securing U.S. supply chains and eliminating the long-time reliance on China, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told “The Story” Wednesday. “I hate that it came to this for people to start taking notice of China,” Haley said. “You know, we are talking about this virus, but it’s so much bigger than this,” …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, 41, may be in the early stages of waking up from a medically-induced coma after his two month battle with coronavirus. Cordero’s doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have seen very small signs of eye movement and tracking — something that he has not been able to do since …

President Trump on Wednesday announced he would not disband the White House coronavirus task force, following confirmation on Tuesday that his administration was considering the option. “I thought we could wind it down sooner,” Trump told reporters. “But I had no idea how popular the task force is until actually yesterday when I started talking …

The Texas attorney general on Wednesday harshly criticized a decision by a Dallas County judge to sentence a woman to prison for opening up her hair salon in defiance of the state’s lockdown order. In a statement, Attorney General Ken Paxton said Shelley Luther was “unjustly jailed” for trying to feed her family and sent a …

A researcher at the University of Pittsburgh whose department says he was close to “very significant findings” about Covid-19 was killed in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Dr. Bing Liu, a 37-year-old research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was found shot dead in his home on May 2. A second …