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“Saturday Night Live” will wrap its truncated, coronavirus-addled 45th season this weekend, NBC has confirmed. This will mark the show’s third “At Home”-themed edition. The inaugural “SNL at Home” in early April averaged 6.7 million total viewers and a 1.46 rating, placing second for the season behind Eddie Murphy’s Dec. 21 hosting turn (which drew just …

World’s largest beer-maker Anheuser-Busch InBev reported a decline in profit in the first quarter as coronavirus restrictions curbed drinking and said the second quarter would be “materially worse.” The brewer of Budweiser, Corona and Stella Artois has already withdrawn its guidance for 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — which has closed bars and restaurants …

It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes – a population the lockdown was designed to protect. Neither does it decrease mortality from Covid-19, which is evident when comparing the UK’s experience with that of other European countries. PCR testing and some straightforward assumptions …

The coronavirus has reportedly killed a fourth Amazon warehouse worker as the e-commerce titan faces scrutiny over how it’s protecting employees. The staffer at a Chicago-area Amazon facility succumbed to COVID-19 on April 18, according to CNBC. Amazon learned the 50-year-old man had tested positive for the virus on March 24 but he had not …

Japan on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc’s remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, making it the country’s first officially authorized drug to tackle the coronavirus disease. Japan reached the decision just three days after the U.S. drugmaker filed for fast-track approval for the treatment. “There has so far been no coronavirus medicine available here so …

Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced on Thursday that he would eliminate jail sentences for violators of lockdown orders. “Throwing Texans in jail whose [businesses] shut down through no fault of their own is wrong,” Abbot wrote on Twitter. “I am eliminating jail for violating an order, retroactive to April 2, superseding local orders. …

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) announced the creation of a “China Task Force” to examine  “a wide range of China-related issues,” including the Chinese Communist Party’s role in allowing coronavirus to become a global pandemic. Speaking to reporters in a press conference on Thursday, McCarthy accused Democrats of backing away from “something that …

Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson on Thursday named Jochen Zeitz as chief executive officer. Zeitz has served as acting president and CEO of the company since February 2020. Word of the appointment cheered Wall Street, sending shares up 8.2 percent early afternoon, at $21.17. It was a much-welcomed piece of good news. In April, Harley-Davidson laid off …

Jillian Hervey is keeping things natural during the coronavirus pandemic. “I have been giving everything a rest [during] quarantine. I was questioning should I go blond again, but now I’m just rocking out natural hair and using whatever things I have already in my closet or in my kit,” the Lion Babe singer, 30, told …

Nintendo on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit that soared 200 percent as cooped-up gamers have turned to its popular Switch console to pass the time. The Japanese video game giant said that the recently released “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” moved a staggering 13.4 million units in its first six weeks, becoming the Nintendo Switch’s fastest selling …