coronavirus

Model besties Hailey Baldwin and Bella Hadid spent some time yachting in Sardinia as travel regulations start to ease up in Italy. The 23-year-olds reunited on a yacht on Tuesday after self-isolating amid the coronavirus pandemic. They looked shipshape aboard the luxe boat with Baldwin in a tiny zebra-print swimsuit and Hadid in an a …

CROMWELL, Conn. — One day after Cameron Champ was forced to withdraw from the Travelers Championship after testing positive for coronavirus, both Brooks Koekpa and Graeme McDowell withdrew on Wednesday morning because their caddies have come down with COVID-19. McDowell and Koepka played a practice round together, alongside Shane Lowry and Brooks’ brother, Chase, who …

Cineplex, the embattled Canadian movie theater chain, is playing defense. Closing its doors because of the pandemic months ago, Cineplex has adopted a ‘poison pill’ or a stockholder rights plan,’ which is a defensive action against hostile and low-priced takeover attempts that take advantage of weakened stock prices. The Toronto-based company said its three-year plan …

The coronavirus pandemic could set the stage for a copper boom as the world starts its economic recovery from the crisis, experts argue. The pandemic will likely spur governments to speed up planned investments in green energy and digital technology — industries that rely heavily on copper — as they try to come back from …

Novak Djokovic isn’t responsible for the coronavirus outbreak at his charity tournament, the Adria Tour — according to his outspoken father. Srdjan Djokovic, who has come under fire in the past for controversial and unsportsmanlike statements, has accused Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov for the spike in people infected, including Novak and his wife Jelena, who both …

Sammy Hagar would rather “get sick and even die” if it meant playing in front of an audience during the coronavirus crisis, the rocker said in a new interview. The former Van Halen frontman, 72, shared his thoughts on the effects of the pandemic that’s sickened more than 9.2 million people and killed more than …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor for the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Tuesday that he is “cautiously optimistic” that a vaccine for the coronavirus will be available to the American public by the end of the year or early 2021. “The hallmark of all really defining responses that we have to virus diseases, …

With the economy slowly bouncing back from coronavirus quarantines, Wall Street bonus season is shaping up to be less of a nightmare and more of a very bad dream. The latest survey by compensation consultant Johnson Associates predicts that financial services pay will be slashed by 15 percent to 20 percent in 2020 — a …

Director David France says “there are so many lessons to be learned from AIDS” about how to solve the COVID-19 crisis. During an online talk with IFC Films, France said since the pandemic started, he’s rewatched “How To Survive a Plague” — his 2012 documentary about the AIDS epidemic — “with fresh eyes … It …

Christmas isn’t canceled. Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there will still be a Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center for the 2020 holiday season — but maybe not the traditional crowds. Tishman Speyer, the real estate firm that owns the Manhattan landmark, has confirmed that the beloved annual happening will go on this year, even if …