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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that the payroll tax cut President Trump has pushed for will not be in the fifth coronavirus relief package Senate Republicans are crafting. “It won’t be in the base bill,” Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC. “One of the problems with the payroll tax cut is it takes time, …

California recorded its largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday and surpassed New York as the state with the highest number of cases. As of Wednesday, the state’s total number of cases stood at more than 422,000, eclipsing the 413,000 cases recorded in New York, the early epicenter of the pandemic. California also counted …

Senate Republicans are at odds over whether to extend the expanded unemployment benefits Congress passed in March to mitigate the economic toll on workers who were laid off during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans who have recently lost their jobs are currently receiving an extra $600 a week in jobless benefits, which are due to run …

Danielle Bernstein is breaking down over backlash related to her WeWoreWhat brand. Earlier this week, the influencer, 28, was accused of ripping off a design for face masks with an attached chain after requesting samples of a similar item from small company Second Wind. Now, Bernstein says she’s being targeted and harassed over the accusations. …

Unilever’s overall business dipped only slightly in the most recent quarter despite the coronavirus crisis, propped up by surging demand from hunkered-down consumers for ice cream, soup and hand sanitizers. The Anglo-Dutch consumer-products giant said its underlying sales in the second quarter fell just 0.3 percent overall despite a massive plunge in the company’s wholesale …

Tom Brady has finally arrived at his new home. For the first time since signing with the Buccaneers this offseason, Brady reported to the team’s training facility at 8:30 a.m. Thursday morning. In a video posted by ABC Tampa, the six-time Super Bowl champion can be seen wearing a mask and entering a trailer to …

Twitter reported its strongest-ever user growth as people took to the social network to chatter about the coronavirus, but its ad sales suffered. Shares of the San Francisco-based company spiked as much as 6 percent in early morning trading after Twitter said that monetizable daily active users (mDAU) increased 36 percent year-over-year to 186 million, …

About 1.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits once again last week, new data show — a troubling sign that the nation’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis is unraveling. Workers now have filed more than 52 million initial jobless claims since layoffs spiked in mid-March, suggesting about a third of the American labor force has …

When the iconic Mario’s Restaurant — a 101-year-old Arthur Avenue institution — reopened for outdoor dining at the end of June, it was a bittersweet return to the family business for Regina Migliucci-Delfino. She lost her father, Joseph Migliucci, 81, the longtime face of the Bronx restaurant, to COVID-19 in April. The night before the …

Is it really Robert De Niro who’s the “punk”? When an indie filmmaker was laid off from his day job because of the pandemic, he decided to put his energy into making a shoestring-budget flick about the virus. He even thought that his big break had finally arrived after years of making smaller movies when …