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Major League Baseball’s 30 owners approved a plan to begin the baseball season in early July, with the proposal now heading to the player’s union for approval amid the coronavirus pandemic. Games would be played without fans to start, with each team playing around 82 regular-season games, inter-division and interleague matchups based on geographical proximity, …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday that New York has reached “the other side of the mountain” with the coronavirus outbreak in the state and can begin reopening the economy in phases. “We’re right about where we were on March 19 before we went into the abyss of the COVID virus,” Cuomo said at his …

You can’t make this ship up. The American Ballet Theatre has thoughtfully planned an auction to help with COVID-19 relief. Less thoughtful: Some available lots include bookings for a cruise. Of course, cruise ships were reported as an early spreader of the virus, and at one point in March the largest outbreak of the coronavirus …

Hailey Bieber is glad that hubby Justin — who postponed his “Changes” tour because of the pandemic — has more time to deal with health issues before he hits the stage. “Everything happens for a reason,” Hailey said on their Facebook show, “The Biebers.” “I’m almost happy because I feel like you have more time …

Working as a transit worker has never been more fashionable. Louis Vuitton has donated 2,500 tasteful, crisp, white cloth masks to MTA front-line workers. Sources say the MTA is distributing the nonsurgical masks this week across its agencies — NYC Transit subway and bus, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North. Louis Vuitton is owned by …

Starting Tuesday, Major League Baseball and the Players Association will formally try to work out an agreement for a baseball season like no other. Within that high-stakes chess game, each side must work through internal differences of opinion to determine its policy. The players, in particular, must run a cost-benefit analysis like no other: How …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk escalated his quarantine battle with California officials on Monday by saying he would restart vehicle production at his company’s northern California factory in spite of lockdown orders intended to stem the spread of the coronavirus. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules,” Musk tweeted just before 5 p.m. to …

A Czech billionaire and professional soccer team owner has purchased a 5-percent stake in Macy’s with apparent plans to reshape the struggling company, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Daniel Kretinsky of Vesa Equity Investment made a “strategic investment” in the US’s largest department store company with plans to “engage in constructive discussions with …

The novel virus is bringing back retro fun. Drive-in theaters may call to mind a bygone era of 1950s Americana, but the nostalgic setup is having a comeback due to the coronavirus. Now, theaters like Astoria, Queens’ Bel Aire Diner have recently started hosting pop-up drive-in movies in their adjacent parking lots — and the initiative …

These kids got a “Perfect” lockdown lesson. Ed Sheeran surprised a class of young British school kids by joining their Zoom video lesson — even teaching them to play some of his hits, according to a report. The “Shape of You” superstar surprised the elementary-aged kids at South London’s Ecclesbourne Primary School by joining the …