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When an Arizona couple had to cancel their wedding due to coronavirus, @hodakotb stepped in to help officiate their wedding virtually! pic.twitter.com/NcTZiDiHhi — TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 23, 2020 Hoda Kotb officiated an Arizona couple’s wedding via Zoom after their in-person festivities were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. And all they had to do to …
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The combined wealth of America’s billionaires, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10 percent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). The wealth surge of America’s richest men happened during a period that saw as many as 22 million …
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Amazon’s globetrotting CEO Jeff Bezos has been pulled back into the company’s day-to-day operations by the coronavirus, according to a new report. The 56-year-old Bezos — who in recent years has delegated management of his $1.2 trillion e-commerce juggernaut while he turned his focus to moonshot projects like his Blue Origin rocket company — has …
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Walmart said it is creating one-way aisles at its massive superstores beginning Thursday in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus. “One-way aisles are designed to increase social distancing and give customers more space on each aisle,” Walmart explained in a Facebook post this week. “There will be floor decals in place to help …
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Actor John Cho has penned a candid essay about the racial discrimination Asian Americans currently face amid the coronavirus pandemic. In the op-ed, published Wednesday for The Los Angeles Times, the South Korean-born “Harold & Kumar” star confessed that it “felt so strange” for him to warn his parents about leaving their house, worried they …
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The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday it will donate another $30 million to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), which is under growing scrutiny from member states for its poor handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and its suspicious tendency to toe the political line from Beijing. American taxpayers are far and away the most …
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Sweden has closed the last remaining Confucius Institute in the country as relations with China deteriorate further amid the coronavirus pandemic, The Times of London reported on Thursday. The Chinese government in 2004 launched Confucius institutes at various foreign universities, with the stated goal of promoting Chinese language and culture. However, U.S. officials have stated …
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Broadway star Nick Cordero, who lost his leg in his battle with COVID-19, is “making progress,” but still remains in a coma, his wife said this week. The 41-year-old, who fell ill last month, has been unconscious for more than three weeks on a ventilator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “We got a …
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The doors to the Magic Kingdom may not reopen for a year due to strict social distancing measures enforced as the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the country. Disney, which shuttered the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif. and Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. on March 12, will likely be unable to reopen the parks …
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US stocks ticked up Thursday as rising oil prices helped Wall Street shrug off another surge in Americans filing for unemployment benefits. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 227.85 points, or 0.9 percent, in early trading despite the US Labor Department reporting 4.4 million initial jobless claims last week, bringing the number …
When an Arizona couple had to cancel their wedding due to coronavirus, @hodakotb stepped in to help officiate their wedding virtually! pic.twitter.com/NcTZiDiHhi — TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 23, 2020 Hoda Kotb officiated an Arizona couple’s wedding via Zoom after their in-person festivities were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. And all they had to do to …
