• McDonald’s recovery heating up with most locations reopened

    McDonald’s recovery heating up with most locations reopened

    McDonald’s appears to be bouncing back from its coronavirus woes. Share’s of the fast food giant were up nearly 2 percent in early trading on Tuesday after it reported that US sales in May were down just 5 percent — a significant improvement from April, when they plummeted 19.2 percent. Global sales fell by 30 …
  • Audrina Patridge’s ex Corey Bohan files for child support due to coronavirus pandemic

    Audrina Patridge’s ex Corey Bohan files for child support due to coronavirus pandemic

    Audrina Patridge’s ex-husband, Corey Bohan, is experiencing some financial trouble amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Australian actor is currently unemployed due to the crisis, so he requested that Patridge, 35, pay child support for their 3-year-old daughter Kirra, according to documents obtained by The Blast. “I do not receive spousal support or child support from …
  • Retail sales surge record 18 percent as coronavirus lockdowns ease

    Retail sales surge record 18 percent as coronavirus lockdowns ease

    US retail sales roared back from record losses last month as states eased coronavirus lockdowns and stores reopened, new data show. Retail and food service sales surged a record 17.7 percent to $485.5 billion in May after plunging 14.7 percent in April amid pandemic restrictions that shut shoppers in their homes, the US Department of …
  • ‘Star Wars’ Celebration canceled for the first time due to the coronavirus

    ‘Star Wars’ Celebration canceled for the first time due to the coronavirus

    This year, the force is nowhere to be seen. For the first time in the event’s history, the 2020 “Star Wars” Celebration has been canceled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced Monday in a statement on their website. A new date has been set for Aug. 18, 2022. The global gathering of “Star …
  • WWE cancels TV tapings after wrestler tests positive for coronavirus

    WWE cancels TV tapings after wrestler tests positive for coronavirus

    A WWE developmental wrestler who was at the wrestling company’s training center in Orlando last Tuesday has tested positive for coronavirus. As a result, WWE canceled its Tuesday television tapings and will test all talent and on-site employees for COVID-19. This will, astoundingly, mark the first coronavirus tests WWE has conducted, according to the Wrestling …
  • ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to resume production

    ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to resume production

    “The Bold and the Beautiful” is certainly being bold. The CBS soap will be the first US broadcast series to return to production since the COVID-19 shutdown began. All cast and crew will wear masks, except for actors when they are filming. The long-running series will start things up again on Wednesday, June 17 in …
  • Major US airlines may ban passengers who don’t wear face masks

    Major US airlines may ban passengers who don’t wear face masks

    You’re free to move about the cabin — but not without a mask. Major US airlines may ban passengers who fly without face coverings as they strengthen enforcement of rules meant to curb the coronavirus. Seven carriers plan to punish customers who flout mask requirements amid concerns about passengers taking them seriously, industry group Airlines …
  • Witnessing PGA’s return was worth the coronavirus anxiety

    Witnessing PGA’s return was worth the coronavirus anxiety

    AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 157 — Reentry. That’s what this week felt like for me, for the first time leaving the cocoon of my home where I’ve been sheltering in place for the past three months. I looked so forward to this. Yet I was so apprehensive about it. I wanted to go. Yet I wasn’t …
  • NYC Authorities Weld Brooklyn Playground Shut One Day after Massive ‘Black Trans Lives Matter’ Protest

    NYC Authorities Weld Brooklyn Playground Shut One Day after Massive ‘Black Trans Lives Matter’ Protest

    New York City workers were seen welding shut the gates of a playground in Brooklyn on Monday, one day after a demonstration in the borough saw thousands of attendees. On Sunday, thousands gathered at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza for a Black Trans Lives Matter rally. Despite the protests, New York City remains under the “phase …
  • House GOP Report Finds WHO ‘Complicit’ in Beijing’s COVID Coverup, Calls for Director Tedros’s Ouster

    House GOP Report Finds WHO ‘Complicit’ in Beijing’s COVID Coverup, Calls for Director Tedros’s Ouster

    China violated the International Health Regulations (IHR) of the World Health Organization in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee allege in a new report on the origins of the pandemic. The interim 50-page report, a copy of which was obtained by National Review, also raises new questions …