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Florida on Friday ordered all bars to close as cases of the coronavirus in the state continue to spike. “Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at bars statewide,” Secretary Halsey Beshears of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation announced on Twitter. Florida reported a record daily …

New York may have to impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors entering the state from Bachelor Nation. Page Six is stunned to learn that ABC’s “The Bachelorette” — surely one of the world’s most unsanitary competition shows — is set to start filming again in California shortly after July 4, in spite of the raging …

In less than two weeks, NBA players will begin to arrive in Orlando. On July 30, the regular season will resume for 22 teams willing to spend as long as three-plus months in the isolated campus surrounding Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. “We believe we’ve developed a safe and responsible way to restart …

Kenny Loggins exudes strong dad energy on the phone: His alarm goes off mid-conversation, and he gushes at length about his son’s work in sustainable agriculture. The singer-songwriter — who straddled two decades of American pop, first as half of the multiplatinum soft-rockers Loggins and Messina in the 1970s and then as a 1980s solo …

American Airlines will resume filling planes to capacity starting July 1, the company announced Friday. “As more people continue to travel, customers may notice that flights are booked to capacity starting July 1,” the airline said in a statement. “American will continue to notify customers and allow them to move to more open flights when …

Gia Gunn of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fame believes COVID-19 and its resulting pandemic is a hoax. “I think the whole mask thing is f–king ridiculous,” the reality star, 30, told fans via Instagram in a clip captured by Evan Ross Katz. “I honestly think this whole COVID-19 thing is a hoax.” Gunn continued, “I think …

Following numerous accounts that airlines were not enforcing their own mask policies, Delta, United and American Airlines have all announced they will now be banning passengers who refuse to cover their nose and mouth. “So far, there have thankfully only been a handful of cases, but we have already banned some passengers from future travel …

Microsoft said Friday it is permanently closing nearly all of its physical stores around the world. Like other retailers, the software and computing giant, co-founded by now-philanthropist Bill Gates, had to temporarily close stores in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to its website, Microsoft has 83 stores worldwide, including 72 stores in …

Wall Street’s major indexes dropped on Friday as the US set a new record for a one-day increase in coronavirus cases and bank stocks tumbled after the Federal Reserve decided to cap shareholder payouts. The S&P 500 banks sub-index declined 5 percent after the Fed limited dividend payments and barred share repurchases until at least …

A New York City councilman wants state officials to give restaurants a break on strict rules for ordering booze that are weighing on their reopening plans. Manhattan Councilman Keith Powers urged the State Liquor Authority to temporarily lift rules that have landed legions of eateries on a “delinquent list” amid the coronavirus pandemic, as The …