• Top E.U. Official Confirms China Objected to Coronavirus Report, Denies Revisions Were Result of Pressure

    Top E.U. Official Confirms China Objected to Coronavirus Report, Denies Revisions Were Result of Pressure

    The European Union’s foreign policy chief admitted Thursday that China “expressed their concerns” over an EU report on Chinese disinformation regarding coronavirus, after allegations that his team had watered down their initial findings “to appease the Chinese Communist Party.” Speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels, Josep Borrell denied that Beijing had coerced him to …
  • UberEats surges in NYC’s outer boroughs during lockdown

    UberEats surges in NYC’s outer boroughs during lockdown

    Business for Uber’s food delivery app is surging in New York City since the coronavirus lockdown started — and nearly all the growth is coming from hungry customers in the outer boroughs and lower-income neighborhoods, The Post has learned. Food orders for the Uber Eats app are “way up” overall in the Big Apple, according …
  • Justice Department investigating feds’ $670B Paycheck Protection Program

    Justice Department investigating feds’ $670B Paycheck Protection Program

    The US Justice Department reportedly has launched a probe of the federal government’s $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program. The investigation has already turned up instances of potential fraud, according to Politico, and arrives as large publicly traded companies have received harsh scrutiny for dipping into the federal pot. Last week, after it surfaced that companies …
  • Justin Timberlake gives ‘It’s Gonna Be May’ meme a coronavirus update

    Justin Timberlake gives ‘It’s Gonna Be May’ meme a coronavirus update

    This perennial meme has gotten a coronavirus twist. *NSYNC’s 2000 hit single “It’s Gonna Be Me” reliably goes viral every May 1, when photos of the former boy band are shared with the easily misheard chorus: “It’s Gonna Be May.” But this year is different. On April 30, Justin Timberlake offered up a version of …
  • Nick Cordero’s wife and baby are living in Zach Braff’s guest house

    Nick Cordero’s wife and baby are living in Zach Braff’s guest house

    Nick Cordero‘s wife, Amanda Kloots, and the couple’s 10-month-old son, Elvis Cordero, are staying with Zach Braff —  Cordero’s best friend — as the Broadway star recovers from the coronavirus. Braff, 45, told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday that Cordero, 41, Kloots, 39, and their baby had been living at his guest house in Los …
  • Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom wear matching ‘Fauci Gang’ sweatshirts

    Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom wear matching ‘Fauci Gang’ sweatshirts

    Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are Team Fauci. The engaged couple posed on Instagram Friday in matching black PizzaSlime hoodies ($69) emblazoned with “Fauci Gang,” a portion of the proceeds from which benefit the CDC Foundation’s Coronavirus Emergency Response Fund. “Double tap if you’re in the #drfauci gang 🤘,” the 43-year-old “Pirates of the Caribbean” …
  • Machine Gun Kelly buying lunch for diners at 12 Cleveland restaurants

    Machine Gun Kelly buying lunch for diners at 12 Cleveland restaurants

    Cleveland-born rapper Machine Gun Kelly is giving back to his community during the pandemic. Kelly, born Colson Baker, says he will buy lunch for diners at 12 Cleveland-area restaurants on Friday, May 1, beginning at noon — while supplies last. He’ll be buying one meal, which will be take-out only, per person at B&M BBQ, …
  • ‘Missing Sounds of NY’ takes our city back from the coronavirus

    ‘Missing Sounds of NY’ takes our city back from the coronavirus

    New York City has become the new quiet place. Indeed, since the coronavirus lockdown made everyone either stay at home or flee the city, the chirping birds have been about the loudest thing you can hear in the concrete jungle. But if your ears — and your heart — are missing the hustle and bustle, …
  • Hafthor Bjornsson isn’t letting coronavirus stop deadlift record attempt

    Hafthor Bjornsson isn’t letting coronavirus stop deadlift record attempt

    A global pandemic isn’t keeping the Mountain from “Game of Thrones” from being, well, the Mountain. Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, a k a Thor, the 6-foot-9, 425-pound actor who played Cersei Lannister’s undead henchman in the final five seasons of the HBO hit, is attempting to break the 500-kg deadlift record from ReykjavÍk, Iceland, as part of the World’s …
  • ‘Parks and Recreation’ stars say coronavirus was ‘only circumstance’ for reunion

    ‘Parks and Recreation’ stars say coronavirus was ‘only circumstance’ for reunion

    It seems like the long-awaited reunion promised to Leslie Knope in the series finale of “Parks and Recreation” — “It will happen, someday,” her husband, played by Adam Scott, says — has finally arrived. It just took a global pandemic to make it happen, according to a report in Variety. “This is essentially the only …