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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kylie 🤍 (@kyliejenner) on Apr 4, 2020 at 1:31pm PDT When you’re Kylie Jenner, boring sweatpants just won’t do. Though the 22-year-old billionaire did step out on Monday in astonishingly expensive tie-dyed sweatsuit priced at over $1,500, she’s been partial to simple, skintight catsuits while stuck …

Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces her Democratic running mate in Lansing, Mich., August 20, 2018. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer likened those protesting the state’s social distancing restrictions put in place to combat the coronavirus to Americans who protested the World War II production effort in the 1940s. “President Trump called this a war, and it is …

US stocks dropped again Tuesday as pressure from the coronavirus crisis pushed oil prices down even further. The Dow Jones industrial average sank as much as 606.64 points, or 2.5 percent, in early trading with crude oil prices at historic lows. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also posted early losses as large as 2.6 …

Lululemon apologized Tuesday after a clueless executive promoted a T-shirt design for “bat fried rice” that drew accusations of anti-Asian sentiment amid the coronavirus pandemic. Senior global art director, Trevor Fleming, had shared a T-shirt on his Instagram page Sunday that showed a Chinese takeout box and pair of chopsticks with bat wings. The apparel, …

Dozens of publicly traded companies — including some with checkered pasts — took $300 million in government-backed loans meant to protect small businesses during the coronavirus crisis, a new report says. At least 75 public firms got low-interest loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, the Trump administration’s $349 billion small-business aid package that ran out …

President Trump on Monday said he plans to issue and executive order suspending immigration to the U.S. over concerns about the coronavirus outbreak. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily …

Magnolia Network, Discovery’s joint venture with “Fixer Upper” stars Chip and Joanna Gaines, has delayed its launch, originally slated for Oct.4, due to production shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The network, which will take over Discovery’s DIY Network after a rebrand, also has unveiled its inaugural slate of original series. It includes eight new …

Huawei’s explosive growth has nearly come to a halt as the coronavirus crisis and a confrontation between the US and the Chinese Communist Party weighs on the Chinese tech giant. Huawei’s revenue climbed just 1.4 percent to 182.2 billion yuan (about $25.7 billion) in the first quarter, the company said Tuesday — a meager increase …

George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday said he has been “cleared” of COVID-19 after testing positive for antibodies last week, adding that he plans to donate his blood plasma. “Good news for me and my family. Last week I tested positive for Covid antibodies, confirming I cleared the virus after weeks without symptoms,” the 59-year-old co-host of …

Coca-Cola’s sales volumes have plunged 25 percent this month as the coronavirus crisis sucks up commercial demand for soft drinks, the company said Tuesday. Almost all of that global decline has come from places such as restaurants, bars and movie theaters, which have been closed across the world to contain the bug, the beverage maker …