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Hundreds of Amazon warehouse staffers are staying home on Tuesday in protest of their work conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, according to labor groups. Some 300 workers across more than 40 Amazon facilities in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and New York, among other states, signed a pledge to not work on Tuesday, Zachary Lerner, a …

“Real Housewives of Orange County” star Kelly Dodd offered her surprising take on the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, calling it “God’s way of thinning the herd.” On Instagram, Dodd, 44, has suggested she was both tested for COVID-19 and recently traveled on an airplane. Responding to a commenter that took issue with her air travel …

Gucci sales were hit hard at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis due to its strong reliance on Chinese customers, owner Kering said on Tuesday, though it added that the Italian brand should be well positioned for a recovery. Kering sales fell 15.4 percent, to $3.47 billion, in the first quarter, affected, like its rivals, …

When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million people had 385 cases of infections. But even as cases in the country — which is in lockdown — have surged past 9,000, …

The European Union says its vaunted tourist industry is facing “staggering” figures of decline because of the coronavirus crisis and the bloc’s internal market commissioner wants the sector to be first in line when it comes to recovery funds. Thierry Breton mentioned figures that the tourism economy could slump up to 70 percent and will …

Cecily Strong penned an essay about mourning her cousin Owen, who died of brain cancer this year, as well as navigating a new romantic relationship, while in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m in the middle of my two-week quarantine in my tiny apartment in New York. I’ve cried every day,” she wrote in the …

New York has applied for a $4 billion federal loan to help cover the ballooning cost of unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus crisis, officials said. The Empire State could use the interest-free line of credit from the federal Unemployment Trust Fund to pay for unemployment insurance benefits as needed over time, a state official said …

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner thanked healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic by donating 100 meals to a hospital in Los Angeles. On Monday, Fueling The Fearless — a non-profit dedicated to “feeding tireless hospital workers at the front lines of COVID-19” — posted an image of the staff at East LA Doctors Hospital …

There is a growing protest movement across the country in response to the draconian and blatantly illegal lockdown orders being flung about by various governors and mayors who seem to have forgotten a) how they got in office and b) that there is a Constitution. At RedState, we’ve covered the protests in Michigan (colleagues Betsy …

Despite a predicted drop in demand, Apple is planning on upping iPhone production by 4 percent year-over-year through March 2021, according to a report. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company plans to crank out 213 million iPhones over the next 12 months, according to Japanese service Nikkei. It will be a roughly even split between the newly …