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Global Citizen has announced a second round of artists for its “One World: Together At Home” global broadcast Saturday night, with Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Sam Smith, Usher and Pharrell Williams among the musicians newly set to join the telecast. Other personalities coming on board include Oprah …
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Courtney Roker 💕 (@ouichefcourtney) on Apr 11, 2020 at 6:38am PDT Al Roker had plenty to celebrate this Easter. On Sunday, the “Today” co-host, 65, publicly congratulated his daughter Courtney and her boyfriend, Wesley Laga, on their engagement. “Could not be more thrilled for these two,” …
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WORLD ON FIRE ON PBS MASTERPIECE Sunday, 9 p.m., PBS A love triangle burns at the heart of the World War II drama “World on Fire.” Harry Chase (Jonah Hauer-King) leaves behind his British girlfriend, factory worker and aspiring singer Lois Bennett (Julia Brown), to be a translator for the British in Warsaw (Prague was …
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Fraser Heston can’t even remember his first — and only — acting role, but that’s because he was only 3 months old at the time. Fraser, now 65, portrayed the baby Moses — who, in the Bible, escapes death when he is set afloat down the Nile River in a basket — in the 1956 …
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Unemployed and looking for health insurance? New York state has promised to help, but it may be endangering its call center workers in the process, The Post has learned. The contract workers responsible for helping the growing throngs of unemployed New Yorkers find affordable health insurance say they are taking off work to avoid catching …
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The trillions of dollars in cash and loans unleashed by the Federal Reserve and US political leaders in recent weeks is meant to build a financial bridge for the country to get beyond the coronavirus pandemic and restart the economy with little or no long-term damage. But that mammoth effort is still unlikely to change …
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Less than half the US jobs lost to the coronavirus crisis will be recovered by the end of next year, a new survey shows. Economists expect non-farm payrolls to shed a monthly average of more than 4.5 million jobs from April through June as the pandemic keeps the economy largely frozen, according to the National …
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A New York investment firm pitched wealthy investors in recent days on a way to make returns of 22 percent to 175 percent using US government programs designed to help Americans keep their jobs and boost the coronavirus-stricken economy, according to a marketing document seen by Reuters. Following questions posed by Reuters, Arcadia Investment Partners, …
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A worker manages a shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) in Bari, Italy, April 7, 2020. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters) The Department of Health and Human Services revealed Wednesday that the nation’s federal stockpile was deploying nearly all of its remaining personal protective equipment (PPE), confirming a Congressional report showing that approximately 90 percent of the PPE …
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More than six million Americans filed jobless claims last week, the second highest number of initial unemployment claims filed in one week since the Department of Labor began tracking the data in 1967. Over 16 million Americans have lost their jobs over the past three weeks as states have closed businesses and implemented social-distancing measures …