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Another 2.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the number of workers sidelined by the coronavirus crisis topped 38 million, new federal data show. That indicates almost a quarter of the US workforce has tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in the past nine weeks as the pandemic kneecapped the global …

Zoë Kravitz, who plays the Catwoman in the upcoming “Batman” movie, is concerned about what will happen once filming is allowed to resume after the coronavirus pandemic, a report said. “I was probably touched more than any job [on The Batman], just because of the clothes and the combat and all of that,” says Kravitz, 31, …

Believe it! Music icon Cher turned 74 Wednesday, and was surprised by family and friends with an appropriately spaced outdoor “social distancing” party. The group, which consisted of just 10 people, who all wore masks and gloves and stood outside, surprised the Grammy Award-winner with a cake. Cher wrote, “Hope we did it right. It’s …

Senator Kamala Harris last week introduced a resolution condemning the use of the phrase “Wuhan virus” to refer to SARS-CoV-2, the deadly coronavirus that has spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan across the globe, as racist. Harris introduced the resolution on Thursday, joined by fellow Democratic senators Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Mazie Hirono …

Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, on Wednesday lambasted the mainstream press for confidently projecting a disastrous Covid outbreak in his state. “You’ve got a lot of people in your profession [journalists] who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks, about how Florida was going to be just like New York. ‘Wait two weeks, Florida’s going …

Is your coronavirus quarantine driving you kooky? Try sheltering in place “At Home With Amy Sedaris.” The wild satire of a homemaking show — starring comedian and consummate crafter Amy Sedaris as a deluded domestic diva with a dark side — kicks off its third season at 10 p.m. Wednesday on TruTV. And Sedaris, 59, …

Kendall Jenner has settled a lawsuit concerning her involvement with the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival. The supermodel has agreed to pay $90,000, for promoting the fiasco music festival in a since-deleted Instagram post, according to court documents filed on Wednesday. Jenner, 24, was sued in August 2019 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York …

Embrace the awkward. That was part of Eli Manning’s message to the Class of 2020 in a sincere and heartfelt commencement speech to graduates who did not experience an on-site ceremony amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “You see, I don’t mind being in awkward situations or doing things I don’t necessarily want to do,’’ Manning …

It took only two days for a reopened Ford assembly plant to grind to a halt over the coronavirus. Thousands of workers at Ford’s facility in Chicago were forced to leave the site Tuesday on just the second day of operations after two workers tested positive for COVID-19 — and a second company factory in …

Broadway star Nick Cordero has suffered a major setback in his recovery after a months-long battle with the coronavirus. Cordero’s wife, fellow stage actor Amanda Kloots, updated fans Wednesday via Instagram, holding back tears as she revealed that, after waking up from a medically induced coma, the 41-year-old thespian’s health had taken a turn for …