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Tom Hanks proved once again he has a heart of gold after gifting a Corona-brand typewriter to an Australian boy who was bullied for having a name associated with the coronavirus pandemic. “I feel like I’m famous,” exclaimed Queensland’s Corona De Vries, 8, in a Reuters video upon receiving the present from his hero. The …

Fans of Nicole Kidman‘s red carpet style can now channel their idol for a good cause. Julia von Boehm, the “Big Little Lies” star’s longtime stylist and creative director at InStyle, is offering up her services for charity. Her Donate With Style program allows anyone in need of fashion advice to book a virtual consultation …

More than four million Americans filed for unemployment last week, according to statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Labor Department. The total number of jobless Americans has increased by 26.5 million, almost 16 percent of the country’s labor force, since businesses began shuttering in mind-March to stem the spread of the coronavirus. In five weeks, …

Eddie Murphy is back on the stand-up comedy circuit after a long break, and soon, he’ll be in your living room. The legendary comedian, along with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Tiffany Haddish, Howie Mandel, Billy Crystal, Kevin Hart, Marc Maron, Marlon Wayans, Margaret Cho, Tim Meadows, Jon Lovitz, and more have joined the star-studded lineup …

Australia will keep its borders closed to foreign visitors for at least three more months to prevent the introduction of coronavirus cases into the country. “The international situation at the moment is such that any relaxation of border measures would be very risky,” Australia’s chief medical officer Brendan Murphy told a government inquiry on the country’s …

China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday criticized a lawsuit by the state of Missouri that seeks damages from China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “This so-called lawsuit is very absurd and has no factual and legal basis at all,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a press conference. Geng added that China has …

The number of Americans put out of work by the coronavirus crisis grew to 26.4 million last week as another 4.4 million people applied for unemployment benefits, new federal data show. That suggests the pandemic has more than wiped out the 22.1 million jobs the US economy had added since October 2010, when the nation …

Post Malone will host a livestream concert tribute to Nirvana this Friday, April 24th at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET. The show will broadcast live from Malone’s home and air on his official YouTube channel. A press release says he’ll “perform a set of Nirvana hits and fan favorites.” For more info, fans can text …

New money for loans to small businesses battered by the coronavirus crisis could reportedly dry up almost as soon as it arrives. The US Senate approved $310 billion in extra funds this week for the feds’ Paycheck Protection Program, which exhausted its initial $349 billion budget in two weeks. But banking groups say so many …

What we seek, what we crave, are those slivers of everyday that approximate normalcy. Sometimes, it’s the first few seconds of consciousness after the alarm clock shatters the still of morning, and for a couple of stolen moments it feels like a regular work day, the shower-shave-dress-coffee-muffin-train-subway routine about to kick in. Sometimes, it is …