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Uber laid off 3,500 people — in a 3-minute Zoom call — last week. “Today will be your last working day with Uber,” company manager Ruffin Chevaleau informed customer-support employees in a video phone call, according to footage obtained by the Daily Mail. “Right now, the rides business is down by more than half due …

MLB owners agreed Monday to the proposal that will be officially sent to the Players Association with the hope of initiating a new round of negotiations as early as Tuesday that most optimistically would begin spring training in about a month and start the season in the first week of July. The 30 control people …

Twitter will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company said on Monday, as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics. Twitter’s new labels will provide links to more information in cases where the risk of harm from the …

General Mills said on Monday it expects to surpass its own expectations for fiscal 2020 organic sales, as people stock their pantries with breakfast cereals and other long-lasting packaged food amid lockdowns. The company, which makes such products as Cheerios cereal and Blue Buffalo pet foods, also said it expects fourth-quarter organic net sales to …

Countries involved in China’s massive international infrastructure push have reportedly asked Beijing for breaks on loans as the coronavirus roils their economies. China has lent countries hundreds of billions of dollars for infrastructure projects under its “Belt and Road Initiative,” which aims to build railroads, highways, energy pipelines and other arteries linking the country with …

Kelly Dodd is once again sparking outrage with her controversial views on the COVID-19 crisis. During Instagram Live last week, a pal told the “Real Housewives of Orange County” star, “It’s more every day. In New York, we’re down to 250 [deaths] a day.” Dodd, 44, then seemingly compared coronavirus to “the flu” and added, …

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrials gave back some of last week’s gains on Monday, as investors worried about the possibility of a second wave of coronavirus infections with the reopening of several economies. Germany and South Korea reported a surge in new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, in an ominous sign for all countries …

The Kardashians are being called out after Khloé Kardashian teepeed Kourtney Kardashian‘s house amid a toilet paper shortage in the US due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Every single Kardashian is srsly [sic] ‘tone deaf,’” one person tweeted. “Kourtney just posted video of her yard covered in toilet paper because her son and Khloe TP’d it….at …

CBS News’ 60 Minutes misrepresented Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s position regarding the origin of the novel coronavirus in a Sunday tweet. “Last Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China,” read a Sunday tweet from the 60 Minutes account. As the U.S. took …

During a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called recent Wuhan coronavirus shelter-in-place orders “unconstitutional” just days after reports appeared implying that Tesla’s Fremont plant may begin production again soon in violation of lockdown orders. In an appearance on episode number 1,470 of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tesla CEO …