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A grassroots movement of local actions has been credited for Japan’s success. Yesterday, Japan’s nationwide state of emergency was officially lifted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who declared COVID-19 to be under control in the country. In his announcement of the move, Abe said, “Recently, new infection cases have fallen below 50 for the entire …
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China raised the specter of escalated tensions with the U.S. over the weekend amid friction over the coronavirus pandemic, warning that the U.S. is pushing the relationship between the world’s two largest economies “to the brink of a new Cold War.” “It has come to our attention that some political forces in the U.S. are …
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Jennifer Lopez has mixed feelings about having to postpone her wedding to Alex Rodriguez amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m a little heartbroken because we did have some great plans but I’m also like, you know what? God has a bigger plan so we just have to wait and see,” she said via video chat on …
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Dominic Cummings, the top adviser to British prime minister Boris Johnson and a key player in Brexit, argued that he “behaved reasonably” in driving 260 miles to his parents’ home, despite being exposed to his wife’s coronavirus-like symptoms. “I’m not surprised many people are very angry,” Cummings said in a Monday press conference. “I don’t …
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday as brokers returned to its iconic trading floor for the first time in two months. The Democratic governor kicked off the first day of in-person trading at 11 Wall St. since the floor’s longest-ever closure began on March 23. “In the …
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Quarantine boredom? Meet your match. Along vacant boardwalks, empty parking lots and the ghost town that is Times Square, roller skaters rule again. Google search interest for the retro footwear skyrocketed to a five-year high in early May — about the time lockdown doldrums also started peaking. And if the movement had a mascot, it’d …
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Nick Cordero has a long way to go in his recovery from coronavirus. The Broadway star’s wife, Amanda Kloots, says he is “doing slightly better” but is still facing challenges. “He is still very sick and battling a lot,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “They turned him to a proning position today to open …
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LATAM Airlines Group announced Tuesday that it filed for bankruptcy in the latest sign of how the coronavirus pandemic has roiled the travel industry. Latin America’s biggest airline and its affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and the US sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Manhattan federal court as part of a reorganization brought on …
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The New York Stock Exchange is set to reopen its iconic trading floor Tuesday with new safety measures in place to ward off the coronavirus. The partial reopening will bring an end to the floor’s longest closure ever. It shut down more than two months ago on March 23 after some staffers tested positive for …
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A coronavirus cluster was detected Tuesday on a freight ship berthed in the Australian west coast port of Fremantle, raising questions about why local authorities weren’t alerted to the danger. Six of 48 crew members from the Al Kuwait tested positive for the virus four days after the livestock carrier arrived from the United Arab …
A grassroots movement of local actions has been credited for Japan’s success. Yesterday, Japan’s nationwide state of emergency was officially lifted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who declared COVID-19 to be under control in the country. In his announcement of the move, Abe said, “Recently, new infection cases have fallen below 50 for the entire …
