coronavirus

Working as a transit worker has never been more fashionable. Louis Vuitton has donated 2,500 tasteful, crisp, white cloth masks to MTA front-line workers. Sources say the MTA is distributing the nonsurgical masks this week across its agencies — NYC Transit subway and bus, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North. Louis Vuitton is owned by …

Starting Tuesday, Major League Baseball and the Players Association will formally try to work out an agreement for a baseball season like no other. Within that high-stakes chess game, each side must work through internal differences of opinion to determine its policy. The players, in particular, must run a cost-benefit analysis like no other: How …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk escalated his quarantine battle with California officials on Monday by saying he would restart vehicle production at his company’s northern California factory in spite of lockdown orders intended to stem the spread of the coronavirus. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules,” Musk tweeted just before 5 p.m. to …

A Czech billionaire and professional soccer team owner has purchased a 5-percent stake in Macy’s with apparent plans to reshape the struggling company, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Daniel Kretinsky of Vesa Equity Investment made a “strategic investment” in the US’s largest department store company with plans to “engage in constructive discussions with …

The novel virus is bringing back retro fun. Drive-in theaters may call to mind a bygone era of 1950s Americana, but the nostalgic setup is having a comeback due to the coronavirus. Now, theaters like Astoria, Queens’ Bel Aire Diner have recently started hosting pop-up drive-in movies in their adjacent parking lots — and the initiative …

These kids got a “Perfect” lockdown lesson. Ed Sheeran surprised a class of young British school kids by joining their Zoom video lesson — even teaching them to play some of his hits, according to a report. The “Shape of You” superstar surprised the elementary-aged kids at South London’s Ecclesbourne Primary School by joining the …

Uber laid off 3,500 people — in a 3-minute Zoom call — last week. “Today will be your last working day with Uber,” company manager Ruffin Chevaleau informed customer-support employees in a video phone call, according to footage obtained by the Daily Mail. “Right now, the rides business is down by more than half due …

MLB owners agreed Monday to the proposal that will be officially sent to the Players Association with the hope of initiating a new round of negotiations as early as Tuesday that most optimistically would begin spring training in about a month and start the season in the first week of July. The 30 control people …

Twitter will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company said on Monday, as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics. Twitter’s new labels will provide links to more information in cases where the risk of harm from the …

General Mills said on Monday it expects to surpass its own expectations for fiscal 2020 organic sales, as people stock their pantries with breakfast cereals and other long-lasting packaged food amid lockdowns. The company, which makes such products as Cheerios cereal and Blue Buffalo pet foods, also said it expects fourth-quarter organic net sales to …