coronavirus

At the request of state governments, Facebook has removed pages promoting protests against state quarantine orders put in place to combat the coronavirus. The mammoth social media company has removed posts promoting protest events in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska, which called on people to gather in person to demonstrate against government social distancing measures they …

US restaurants are on track to take a $50 billion hit in April, with losses mounting to an estimated $240 billion by the end of 2020, as the coronvirus crisis ravages the industry, according to a National Restaurant Association survey released on Monday. Two thirds of U.S. restaurant workers — or 8 million people — …

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Saturday criticized Chinese authorities for arresting 15 prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters over the weekend. “I condemn the latest assault on the rule of law and the liberty of the people of Hong Kong.  These events show how antithetical the values of the Chinese Communist Party are to those …

The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached 40,628 by Monday morning as state governors publicly worried they won’t have the amount of tests needed to safely reopen parts of the economy. “The administration, I think, is trying to ramp up testing. They are doing some things with respect to private labs,” Maryland governor Larry Hogan, a …

Democrat Laura Kelly talks to her supporters after winning the governor’s race at her election night party in Topeka, Kansas, November 6, 2018. A federal judge on Saturday blocked Kansas governor Laura Kelly’s executive order banning religious gatherings of over ten people, allowing churches and other institutions to congregate as long as worshippers maintain social …

Protests erupted over the weekend in several states, including Michigan, Arizona, Texas, Wisconsin, and Nevada, demanding that government officials reopen the economy after stay-at-home orders were issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Demonstrators gathered at the Arizona State Capitol on Sunday morning, organized by Operation Gridlock Arizona. The group asked protesters to drive around the …

Drive-in movie theaters — a tiny, nearly forgotten sliver of the US cinema business — may be poised for a comeback as the coronavirus has shuttered indoor movie theaters nationwide. The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the movie theater industry with over 40,000 screens closed in the US alone — but a small group of …

Tom Hanks said his wife had a much “tougher time” dealing with coronavirus than he did. The Oscar-winning actor, 63, detailed their experiences with the novel virus and recalled Rita Wilson‘s more severe symptoms. “Rita went through a tougher time than I did,” Hanks said in an interview with the National Defense Radio Show. “She …

Bob Odenkirk recently reflected about his 21-year-old son Nathan’s battle with coronavirus, telling James Corden it was “worse than the flu.” Detailing the experience last week on the “Late Late Show,” Odenkirk noted his son contracted coronavirus “a couple of weeks ago,” just as reports emerged about the novel illness. “It was kind of talked …

The Chainsmokers have donated thousands of KN95 masks to hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic, Page Six has learned. The duo, which consists of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, donated 10,000 masks to Weill Cornell Medicine and another 10,000 to University Medical Center in Las Vegas. “The work our healthcare professionals are doing on a daily …