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Australia will keep its borders closed to foreign visitors for at least three more months to prevent the introduction of coronavirus cases into the country. “The international situation at the moment is such that any relaxation of border measures would be very risky,” Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told a government inquiry on the country’s …
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China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday criticized a lawsuit by the state of Missouri that seeks damages from China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “This so-called lawsuit is very absurd and has no factual and legal basis at all,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a press conference. Geng added that China has …
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The number of Americans put out of work by the coronavirus crisis grew to 26.4 million last week as another 4.4 million people applied for unemployment benefits, new federal data show. That suggests the pandemic has more than wiped out the 22.1 million jobs the US economy had added since October 2010, when the nation …
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Post Malone will host a livestream concert tribute to Nirvana this Friday, April 24th at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET. The show will broadcast live from Malone’s home and air on his official YouTube channel. A press release says he’ll “perform a set of Nirvana hits and fan favorites.” For more info, fans can text …
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New money for loans to small businesses battered by the coronavirus crisis could reportedly dry up almost as soon as it arrives. The US Senate approved $310 billion in extra funds this week for the feds’ Paycheck Protection Program, which exhausted its initial $349 billion budget in two weeks. But banking groups say so many …
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What we seek, what we crave, are those slivers of everyday that approximate normalcy. Sometimes, it’s the first few seconds of consciousness after the alarm clock shatters the still of morning, and for a couple of stolen moments it feels like a regular work day, the shower-shave-dress-coffee-muffin-train-subway routine about to kick in. Sometimes, it is …
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The insurance industry is blowing it. In my April 9 column, I proposed that insurance companies be used as the conduits for getting government money to battered small businesses like restaurants. The industry wouldn’t be giving out its own dough. It would merely be acting as an agent to get federal loans and grants to …
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After Andie MacDowell and her daughters were photographed allegedly sneaking out of an LA park that’s closed during the coronavirus lockdown, insiders identified another offending family member flouting the rules with the group — MacDowell’s dog, Ava Gardner! MacDowell was seen shimmying under the park gate with a tiny pup in tow. “That scrap of …
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It’s safe to say Cardi B thinks it’s too early to reopen businesses. After the governor of her new home state of Georgia announced that salons, gyms and bowling alleys would be back in business on Friday, the rapper warned Georgians they would likely die alone in “a cold hospital” and called for “health over …
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You know it’s bad when the Beanie Babies start praying. Ty Warner — the Four Seasons hotel owner who made his fortune making the plush phenomenon — has made a new Beanie Baby to raise money for coronavirus relief, we’re told. The teddy bear tycoon has been putting up medical workers at his Midtown hotel, …
Australia will keep its borders closed to foreign visitors for at least three more months to prevent the introduction of coronavirus cases into the country. “The international situation at the moment is such that any relaxation of border measures would be very risky,” Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told a government inquiry on the country’s …
