coronavirus

Call them the “Real Housewives” of quarantine. Shannon Beador, Kelly Dodd, Braunwyn Windham-Burke and Emily Simpson filmed a socially distant chat at Beador’s house on Sunday for the upcoming season of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” according to video footage Beador posted on Instagram. The women were in the midst of production for Season …

The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove the US from dependency on a China-based supply chain and weighing imposing new tariffs to punish the Communist Party in Beijing for its response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report on Monday. The economic damage and death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is projecting the U.S. coronavirus daily death toll to reach about 3,000 people by June 1, with 200,000 new cases per day by the same date, the New York Times reported on Monday. The projections were compiled into charts currently used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “There …

United Kingdom health ministers are weighing a plan to create “immunity passports” for workers, which would use coronavirus testing and facial recognition to certify someone’s identity and indicate whether they have already had the virus and can safely return to the workplace. The tech firm Onfido, which specializes in identity verification through facial biometrics, has presented the …

General Electric said Monday it was planning to cut the global workforce of its aviation unit this year by as much as 25 percent, or up to 13,000 jobs, including both voluntary and involuntary layoffs, citing prolonged aircraft reduction schedules caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The job cuts are the latest mounting woes for the …

Kim Kardashian has teamed up with restaurant chain Panera Bread and Feeding America — the country’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization — to help feed the hungry during the coronavirus pandemic. To spread the word about the campaign — which aims to provide up to 500,000 meals to people in need — the 39-year-old posted a …

A high-ranking engineer at Amazon has resigned in protest of the company’s treatment of warehouse workers. Tim Bray, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, said in a public blog post titled “Bye, Amazon” that he could no longer stand to work at a “chickens–t” company that fires dissenters in an effort “designed to create …

A South Dakota pork processing plant took its first steps toward reopening Monday after being shuttered for over two weeks because of a coronavirus outbreak that infected more than 800 employees. As two departments opened at the Sioux Falls plant operated by Smithfield Foods, employees filed through a tent where they were screened for fever …

The Justice Department is pushing back against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s stay at home order, arguing that churches have been unfairly affected. The DOJ filed a statement of interest on Sunday in federal court in support of a Chincoteague, Virginia church that sued the state after its pastor was issued a criminal citation for holding a service with 16 …

American clothing company J. Crew filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, the first major retailer to do so during the coronavirus pandemic. Crew’s parent company, Chinos Holdings, filed for Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court for the Eastern District of Virginia after its board reached a decision on Sunday night, following weeks of negotiations …