• MLB All-Star Ryan Zimmerman doesn’t know if he’ll risk playing

    MLB All-Star Ryan Zimmerman doesn’t know if he’ll risk playing

    Ryan Zimmerman is a two-time All-Star infielder who has played 15 years in the majors, all with the Washington Nationals. He holds most of the team’s career hitting records, and his two homers and seven RBIs last postseason helped the Nationals win their first World Series championship. Zimmerman has been offering his thoughts — as …
  • Virtual Pride 2020: A guide to concerts, dance parties, drag shows and more

    Virtual Pride 2020: A guide to concerts, dance parties, drag shows and more

    Gay pride will spread by way of a virtual rainbow this weekend. With the coronavirus pandemic sidelining many in-person LGBTQ celebrations this year, NYC Pride will host a two-hour broadcast extravaganza, featuring “Pose” star Billy Porter, singer Janelle Monáe and more — in lieu of a parade —starting at noon Sunday on several ABC network …
  • Jill Martin launching ‘love potion’ hand sanitizer for dating amid pandemic

    Jill Martin launching ‘love potion’ hand sanitizer for dating amid pandemic

    Jill Martin saw a crisis and seized an opportunity. The “Today” show lifestyle contributor, 44, exclusively told Page Six Style that she’s releasing a new hand sanitizer in a couple of weeks under her Potion 54 line for QVC. “It’s a love potion, and 54 is the numeric equivalent of love. … I was thinking …
  • Texas Governor Rolls Back Reopening as Coronavirus Cases Spike

    Texas Governor Rolls Back Reopening as Coronavirus Cases Spike

    Texas Governor Greg Abbott rolled back his state’s reopening process on Friday as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to soar in Texas. “As I said from the start, if the positivity rate rose above 10%, the State of Texas would take further action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” Abbott said in a statement. “At this …
  • NY State Dems to Open Inquiry into Cuomo Handling of Coronavirus in Nursing Homes

    NY State Dems to Open Inquiry into Cuomo Handling of Coronavirus in Nursing Homes

    New York state Democratic lawmakers will open an inquiry into Governor Andrew Cuomo’s handling of coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes, the Niagra Gazette reported on Friday. Around 6,300 residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities in New York have died during the pandemic, accounting for roughly one quarter of the state’s total coronavirus deaths.  …
  • US economy may not recover from coronavirus crisis until 2023, expert says

    US economy may not recover from coronavirus crisis until 2023, expert says

    The US economy may not shake its bad case of the coronavirus for another two and a half years, a new economic forecast warns. The nation is in for a gradual economic recovery from the “depression-like crisis” sparked by the pandemic, with production and employment likely to remain under pressure through the end of 2022, …
  • Airline unions seek another $32B coronavirus bailout

    Airline unions seek another $32B coronavirus bailout

    Labor unions for aviation workers want Congress to pass another $32 billion bailout to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs as the coronavirus pandemic keeps airlines in a chokehold. Six unions warned lawmakers that “mass layoffs are inevitable” without another round of payroll aid to keep airline workers employed through at least the end of …
  • How a billionarie helped thousands of minority-owned small businesses secure urgent aid

    How a billionarie helped thousands of minority-owned small businesses secure urgent aid

    It was the second week of January, and Robert F. Smith could see the economic damage in China wash across his computer screen in Denver. Weekly reports of tracking data from his more than 60 software companies showed that many Chinese businesses, particularly smaller ones, were slowly grinding to a halt as the coronavirus outbreak …
  • Government Watchdog Finds Over 1 Million Coronavirus Checks Sent to Dead People

    Government Watchdog Finds Over 1 Million Coronavirus Checks Sent to Dead People

    The Government Accountability Office revealed in a new report that almost 1.1 million dead people received coronavirus relief checks from the government that totaled nearly $1.4 billion. The GAO explains that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department “moved quickly” to send out over 160 million payments to Americans as authorized by the …
  • Hospice reps accused of sneaking into hospitals, nursing homes amid coronavirus

    Hospice reps accused of sneaking into hospitals, nursing homes amid coronavirus

    A heartless hospice chain prodded its sales reps to sneak into hospitals and nursing homes in search of terminally ill patients at the height of the coronavirus pandemic — even if it meant falsely posing as staff, a new lawsuit claims. Courtesy of Kay Van Wey Vitas Healthcare of Miami improperly declared its sales staffers …