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US retail sales took a record plunge for the second straight month in April as the coronavirus crisis gutted the industry, new data shows. Sales by retail and food service merchants plummeted 16.4 percent last month to $403.9 billion, the US Department of Commerce said Friday. That’s worse than the 12 percent drop economists predicted …

DraftKings reported a steeper-than-expected loss as live sports events were canceled worldwide, but played down concerns that the coronavirus crisis will cripple its betting business in the longer term. In its first earnings report as a public company, the online sports-betting behemoth — which went public last month via a blank-check company merger — reported …

Two Amazon warehouse workers in Indiana have reportedly died of the coronavirus, pushing the company’s death toll to at least seven. The e-commerce giant learned Wednesday that COVID-19 had killed an employee at its facility in Jeffersonville, near Louisville, Kentucky, according to local CBS affiliate WLKY. The unidentified worker was diagnosed with the disease on …

Sen. Kelly Loeffler gave the feds records related to her stock trades amid questions about sales she made before the coronavirus hammered global markets, according to reports. The Georgia Republican forwarded documents to the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee, her office told media outlets in a …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero is “stronger every day” now that he has awakened from a medically-induced coma after a months battle with the coronavirus, his wife, Amanda Kloots said Thursday, cautioning that Cordero is still not out of the woods yet. Although Cordero, 41, is conscious and responding to commands Kloots, 38, said on her Instagram …

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has corrupted the World Health Organization (WHO), under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The WHO pursued politics over public health by helping Beijing spread disinformation about the outbreak and excluding Taiwan and its wealth of knowledge about the disease. American decision-makers …

The pernicious health effects of covid-19 are concentrated among older people, but it is the young and especially low-income Americans who suffer the greatest harm from the country’s disease-mitigating shutdown policies. The bleak jobs data released last week, showing that more than 20 million Americans were thrown out of work in April, was just the …

The new bill includes another round of stimulus checks for all Americans, funds additional coronavirus testing, and spends billions to bail out states and government agencies straining under pension debt. Another stimulus bill could be on its way through Congress by the end of the week, as House Democrats on Tuesday announced plans for $3 …

“Because I said so!” may have worked for our dads and for drill sergeants, but it’s terribly ineffective in medicine. As a practical matter, does the practical matter? So let’s say the MLB season — the MLB often so short on foresight — begins this season as per whatever format and schedule agreed upon, say …

Rick Bright, the ousted Health and Human Services official who testified Thursday to Congress that the Trump administration was not prepared for the coronavirus pandemic, told lawmakers that the country still does not have enough coronavirus tests. Bright was asked by Representative Debbie Dingell to weigh in on the administration’s claim that anyone who wants …