• European tourism could drop 70 percent due to coronavirus

    European tourism could drop 70 percent due to coronavirus

    The European Union says its vaunted tourist industry is facing “staggering” figures of decline because of the coronavirus crisis and the bloc’s internal market commissioner wants the sector to be first in line when it comes to recovery funds. Thierry Breton mentioned figures that the tourism economy could slump up to 70 percent and will …
  • Cecily Strong opens up about grieving her cousin while in quarantine

    Cecily Strong opens up about grieving her cousin while in quarantine

    Cecily Strong penned an essay about mourning her cousin Owen, who died of brain cancer this year, as well as navigating a new romantic relationship, while in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m in the middle of my two-week quarantine in my tiny apartment in New York. I’ve cried every day,” she wrote in the …
  • New York seeks $4B loan from US to cover unemployment tab

    New York seeks $4B loan from US to cover unemployment tab

    New York has applied for a $4 billion federal loan to help cover the ballooning cost of unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus crisis, officials said. The Empire State could use the interest-free line of credit from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund to pay for unemployment insurance benefits as needed over time, a state official said …
  • Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner donate 100 meals to LA hospital

    Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner donate 100 meals to LA hospital

    Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner thanked healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic by donating 100 meals to a hospital in Los Angeles. On Monday, Fueling The Fearless — a non-profit dedicated to “feeding tireless hospital workers at the front lines of COVID-19” — posted an image of the staff at East LA Doctors Hospital …
  • On the Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, President Trump Affirms Our Right to Protest Wuhan Virus Lockdowns

    On the Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, President Trump Affirms Our Right to Protest Wuhan Virus Lockdowns

    There is a growing protest movement across the country in response to the draconian and blatantly illegal lockdown orders being flung about by various governors and mayors who seem to have forgotten a) how they got in office and b) that there is a Constitution. At RedState, we’ve covered the protests in Michigan (colleagues Betsy …
  • Apple plans to crank out more iPhones despite sagging demand: report

    Apple plans to crank out more iPhones despite sagging demand: report

    Despite a predicted drop in demand, Apple is planning on upping iPhone production by 4 percent year-over-year through March 2021, according to a report. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company plans to crank out 213 million iPhones over the next 12 months, according to Japanese service Nikkei. It will be a roughly even split between the newly …
  • Kylie Jenner is living in catsuits during quarantine

    Kylie Jenner is living in catsuits during quarantine

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kylie 🤍 (@kyliejenner) on Apr 4, 2020 at 1:31pm PDT When you’re Kylie Jenner, boring sweatpants just won’t do. Though the 22-year-old billionaire did step out on Monday in astonishingly expensive tie-dyed sweatsuit priced at over $1,500, she’s been partial to simple, skintight catsuits while stuck …
  • Michigan Gov. Compares Lockdown Protesters to Americans Who Protested WWII Production Effort

    Michigan Gov. Compares Lockdown Protesters to Americans Who Protested WWII Production Effort

    Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces her Democratic running mate in Lansing, Mich., August 20, 2018. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer likened those protesting the state’s social distancing restrictions put in place to combat the coronavirus to Americans who protested the World War II production effort in the 1940s. “President Trump called this a war, and it is …
  • Stocks tumble again with oil prices still under pressure

    Stocks tumble again with oil prices still under pressure

    US stocks dropped again Tuesday as pressure from the coronavirus crisis pushed oil prices down even further. The Dow Jones industrial average sank as much as 606.64 points, or 2.5 percent, in early trading with crude oil prices at historic lows. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also posted early losses as large as 2.6 …
  • Lululemon apologizes after backlash over exec’s ‘bat fried rice’ shirt

    Lululemon apologizes after backlash over exec’s ‘bat fried rice’ shirt

    Lululemon apologized Tuesday after a clueless executive promoted a T-shirt design for “bat fried rice” that drew accusations of anti-Asian sentiment amid the coronavirus pandemic. Senior global art director, Trevor Fleming, had shared a T-shirt on his Instagram page Sunday that showed a Chinese takeout box and pair of chopsticks with bat wings. The apparel, …