coronavirus

With the coronavirus putting a damper on social gatherings — from international travel to dining out —  there’s never been a better time to save. Simple steps from rethinking subscriptions to negotiating bills can help consumers shore up their finances even as the pandemic ravages the economy, personal finance guru Nicole Lapin tells The Post. …

France’s movie theaters will be allowed to re-open from June 22, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced this evening. This is earlier than expected, as French Culture Minister Franck Riester said this week that cinemas were eyeing a July 1 re-start. The decision was made in concert with the industry, Philippe said today, in order to …

The clock is ticking. But toward what? And when? A veteran agent who has been through many negotiations said, “Everything in baseball gets done on a deadline.” But what is the deadline that MLB and the Players Association are working against in trying to among, other items, reach an agreement on how players will be …

Sonic Automotive, which operates 95 US car dealerships, started laying off and furloughing about a third of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic crushed its sales. Then, it changed its executives’ pay packages — handing them a multimillion-dollar windfall. On April 10, Sonic’s board gave its top executives stock options to replace performance-based share awards, …

Tom Hanks donated blood plasma for a second time to lend a hand in the battle against the coronavirus — months after he recovered from his own bout with the illness, the actor said on Instagram. The Oscar winner, 63, posted a shot Wednesday of two bags of plasma, along with two other images documenting …

From “kindness armor” to COVID armor. On Wednesday, Lady Gaga stayed safe and stylish while hand-delivering copies of her new album “Chromatica” to retailers, outfitted in a one-of-a-kind pink spiked face mask by Michael Ngo. The 34-year-old “Sour Candy” singer’s custom facial covering features the title and logo of her upcoming LP, and is adorned …

An additional 2.1 million Americans filed unemployment claims last week, the Department of Labor announced Thursday, bringing the total number of unemployed Americans to over 40 million. Continuing unemployment claims dropped last week for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, a sign that the economic destruction from the coronavirus is beginning to slow …

Cineworld, the owner of Regal cinemas in the US, expects to reopen its doors for business in July. The movie-theater giant said late Wednesday it anticipates that government restrictions related to cinemas will be lifted in each of its territories in the coming months and “anticipates the reopening of all of its cinemas in July.” …

Amazon plans to offer permanent jobs to about 70 percent of the US workforce it has hired temporarily to meet consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters on Thursday. The world’s largest online retailer will begin telling 125,000 warehouse employees in June that they can keep their roles longer-term. The remaining 50,000 …

The coronavirus crisis has put more than 40 million Americans out of work, according to new federal data showing another 2.1 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week. The workers sidelined by the pandemic in the past 10 weeks now outnumber the entire population of California and account for roughly 26 percent of the …