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For the past seven decades, the show has always gone on for the Tony Awards, which honor the best Broadway performances and productions. But with the 74th edition being postponed from its planned June 7 date due to the coronavirus, there’s a real chance that the ceremony will be scrapped altogether this year, multiple sources …

The sibling design duo behind the New York-based luxury cashmere sweater line Leret Leret are doing their part to help those hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic — and they’re enlisting the aid of some of their high-profile fans to spread the word. Edouard and Andrea Leret have partnered with God’s Love We Deliver to …

“The Blacklist” is getting more animated for its Season 7 finale. Due to the coronavirus-related production shutdown on the New York-filmed thriller, the series has pulled together a hybrid live-action and animated season-ender, which will air at 8 p.m. Friday, May 15, on NBC. While shooting the season’s 19th episode, titled “The Kazanjian Brothers,” production …

Starbucks plans to reopen 85 percent of its locations under modified operations and hours across the US by the end of the week, the coffee giant announced. The company’s mobile app — already used by about 20 million customers — will be optimized for voice ordering through Siri, curbside pickup, entryway handoff, and improved drive-thru …

Federal lawmakers are making a bipartisan push to bail out the auto industry as the coronavirus crisis causes car sales to plummet, a new report says. Midwestern representatives are circulating a letter to convince their colleagues to throw auto manufacturers and suppliers a financial lifeline in a future relief package, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. …

Uber said Wednesday it will shed nearly 15 percent of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic ravages its business. The cuts will see the struggling ride-hail giant lay off 3,700 of its nearly 27,000 employees and will cost the company $20 million in severance and other related termination benefits. The cuts will mainly hit its …

The coronavirus crisis is reportedly forcing US airlines to burn through more than $10 billion in cash each month as demand for travel evaporates. Industry group Airlines for America plans to detail the pandemic’s staggering cost at a Wednesday US Senate hearing on the state of the beleaguered aviation sector, Reuters reported. “The US airline …

The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many — including world leaders; most scientists, especially health officials, doctors and epidemiologists; those who work in major news media; opinion writers in those media; and the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people …

The United Kingdom government scientist who advised Prime Minister Boris Johnson to put Britain on lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak has resigned following news that he violated his own social-distancing guidelines to meet his mistress. Professor Neil Ferguson, 51, had his married mistress over at his house just after he had spent two weeks in quarantine …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dismissed the theory that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China in an interview published Tuesday. “If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly …