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Some foreign workers who lived in the U.S. at some point during the last two years have mistakenly received economic stimulus checks designated for U.S. citizens due to an Internal Revenue Service glitch. Thousands of college-age workers, some of whom left the U.S. before the coronavirus was discovered in the country and are currently residing …
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Jamie Metzl, a member of the World Health Organization’s International Advisory Committee on Human Genome Editing, has speculated that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. “When they have outbreaks in China, the zoonotic jump [of the virus from animal to humans] tends to happen in the south in Guangdong or Yunnan Province, …
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Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) released a proposal Friday to raise wages for essential workers for three months, with debates on a possible phase-four relief package intensifying as the Senate returns to D.C. next week. Romney’s plan, titled “Patriot Pay,” calls for bonuses from May 1 to July 31, 2020, for front-line workers in healthcare …
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Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced a ban on 1,500 types of firearms designated as “assault weapons” by Canada’s federal government, following a mass shooting in Nova Scotia in late April. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country,” Trudeau said …
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Trustees of tony Gramercy Park have sent a terse e-mail to those lucky enough to have keys to the city’s only private park, ordering them to wear masks during spring strolls since it’s impossible to socially distance along its paths. Masks or no, some embarrassed residents are buzzing that the park should drop the private …
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The coronavirus is bringing even more pain to the nation’s hobbled airlines as American Airlines informed its New York-based flight crews they will be grounded for at least another month as the carrier slashes its June schedule. “We’re announcing the difficult decision to extend temporary pause done by LGA-based [LaGuardia Airport] flight attendants. While we …
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Gov. Cuomo has quietly begun recruiting grocery stores in a bid to widen the state’s coronavirus testing program, The Post has learned. Tests for the deadly bug — a key tool for pinpointing infection hotspots as officials look to ease lockdowns — are now being administered at an undisclosed number of supermarkets statewide as officials …
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EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline. “We are completely aligned …
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JPMorgan Chase said Friday it has secured roughly $15 billion in the second round of Paycheck Protection Program funding, with about $8.4 billion of that going to small businesses in the Tri-State Area. The nation’s biggest lender started notifying clients in the wee hours of the morning that their emergency funding from the Small Business …
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Axed staff at legendary Hollywood haunt Chateau Marmont are furious because they haven’t got any of the $300,000 in funds that was raised to set up to care for them amid the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly all the hotel’s 242 employees were let go in March without insurance or severance after the Los Angeles lockdown began …
Some foreign workers who lived in the U.S. at some point during the last two years have mistakenly received economic stimulus checks designated for U.S. citizens due to an Internal Revenue Service glitch. Thousands of college-age workers, some of whom left the U.S. before the coronavirus was discovered in the country and are currently residing …
