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The firm behind Madame Tussauds and Legoland parks is looking to raise $540 million in a bond sale, offering a high interest rate to try to secure funds to tide it over while most of its venues are closed in the coronavirus pandemic. Merlin Entertainments, the world’s second-largest operator of visitor attractions after Disney, is …

Officials at big companies could be sent to the slammer for taking loans meant to help small businesses amid the coronavirus crisis. Amid growing scrutiny of its $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program, the US Treasury Department on Thursday urged the dozens of publicly traded companies that got millions of dollars in government-backed loans to return …

Heavyweight hip hop MC Jason Williams, known by the name Vice Verses, is being honored with a massive teleconference after his death last week. “Jason ‘Vice Verses’ Williams passed away last week and an entire, worldwide community is mourning … and celebrating. Celebrating the life of someone whose flowers will come attached with words like …

Ben Higgins and fiancée Jessica Clarke are enjoying their engagement bliss, quarantine-style. During his appearance on Nick Viall’s “The Viall Files” podcast Wednesday, former “Bachelor” Higgins, 31, opened up about the couple’s living arrangements in Clarke’s family’s Franklin, Tenn., home, revealing they’re sleeping in separate beds. “Right now she has a bedroom upstairs at her …

US stocks ticked up Thursday as rising oil prices helped Wall Street shrug off another surge in Americans filing for unemployment benefits. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 227.85 points, or 0.9 percent, in early trading despite the US Labor Department reporting 4.4 million initial jobless claims last week, bringing the number …

More than four million Americans filed for unemployment last week, according to statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Labor Department. The total number of jobless Americans has increased by 26.5 million, almost 16 percent of the country’s labor force, since businesses began shuttering in mind-March to stem the spread of the coronavirus. In five weeks, …

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 …

“General Hospital” star Maurice Benard details his battle with mental illness in his new memoir, recounting a manic episode so severe he believed Michael Jackson was singing about him. The 57-year-old — who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 22 years old — was prescribed lithium, a “wonder drug” he would take on and off, …

The oil market may look like a dollar-store clearance rack — but that doesn’t mean investors should buy up barrels like they’re out-of-season Easter candy. Rock-bottom prices have piqued the interest of would-be oil barons who furiously googled tips this week on how to bet on crude. They could usually do that through exchange-traded funds …

Jennifer Lopez may be rocking a 16-carat, $1.8 million engagement ring from fiancé Alex Rodriguez these days, but she’s got only fond memories of the famous pink diamond she accepted from ex Ben Affleck back in 2002. The six-carat rock came up during a chat between the 50-year-old “Hustlers” star and Apple Music host Zane …