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Chinese state media slammed U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo on Monday after Pompeo repeated allegations that the coronavirus accidentally escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Pompeo is “one of the worst secretaries of the state in American history,” the Xinhua state news agency said in a translation by the Wall Street Journal. The similarly state-run Global …

A Chinese intelligence report warned President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party leaders that Beijing is facing the highest level of hostility since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, sources with knowledge of the report told Reuters. The report, composed by the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a state-backed think tank associated with China’s …

The New York City Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, released a statement Monday arguing that officers should not be tasked with enforcing social distancing ordinances. “The NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” PBA president Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “As the weather heats up …

“This Is Us” star Chrissy Metz thinks the NBC hit will include coronavirus plots in future episodes. “I haven’t talked to anybody yet, but we are a contemporary show so we have to address it,” she said in an interview with Web series “Q.10.” “Our show is sort of a blueprint on how to go …

Madonna caught heat for snuggling with a pal at a not-distant social gathering on Saturday night. But Page Six has learned that she may also have been crisscrossing the globe while waiting to find out if she’s had COVID-19. Last we heard, the pop legend was quarantining in the UK, where she’s been firing off …

The US Treasury Department on Monday said it plans to borrow nearly $3 trillion in the second quarter of 2020 — more than five times larger than the previous record — as the federal government spends at a frantic pace to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on the US economy. In a statement, Treasury …

New orders for US-made goods suffered a record decline in March and could sink further as disruptions from the novel coronavirus fracture supply chains and depress exports. The report from the Commerce Department on Monday was the latest in a series of increasingly bleak economic data. It also bolstered analysts’ views that the economy would …

Even a global pandemic can’t stop Germany from a rave. After the World Club Dome festival was postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus, BigCityBeats, the team behind the festival, found a way to give people their party fix while still upholding social-distancing rules. They brought fans to Autokino Düsseldorf Drive-In Cinema Stadium, filling the …

After an extremely rocky March, the trading app for millennials is starting May off with a bang. Menlo Park, Calif-based Robinhood announced in a blog post on Monday that it has raised $280 million in a funding round that now values the company at $8.3 billion. The company said the funding comes after it added …

Jim Edmonds is doing his part to help combat coronavirus. The former MLB star, 49, donated his plasma at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis on Monday, over a month after he tested positive for COVID-19. “After Jim got well he asked his doctor if there was anything he could do to help and his doctor …