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Got a big swimming pool that’s empty and you don’t plan to use? Well, here’s a money-making idea that your town and neighbors will hate. Fill it with crude oil. Here’s how bizarre the oil market was on Monday. The price of a barrel of crude oil declined to a negative $38. NEGATIVE $38! That …

Beginning Monday, April 27, CBS’ daytime dramas “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful” will begin airing repeat episodes amid the continuing coronavirus production shutdown, but with a fun twist. As we previously reported, both shows had about four to six weeks worth of episodes in the can when the production …

Crude oil prices plunged below zero for the first time in history on Monday, with traders actually paying to get barrels of the stuff off their hands as the coronavirus kills demand. The May futures contract for West Texas Intermediate crude, which is set to expire Tuesday, settled at negative $37.63 per barrel, down $55.90 …

In the 2015 movie “The Big Short” about the Great Recession, Brad Pitt’s character Ben Rickert is strolling in Las Vegas with two Wall Street colleagues who are elated about all the money they made betting that the US economy was in trouble. Their bet, of course, was that problems with mortgage-backed securities would hurt …

Even supermodels are switching up their looks while social distancing. Bella Hadid made a major change to her hair on Sunday, cutting her own bangs at home. The model, 23, showed off the eyelash-grazing fringe on her Instagram Stories. After posting a poll asking if she should be trusted to cut other people’s hair, Hadid …

United Airlines said on Monday it expects to report a pre-tax loss of about $2.1 billion for the first quarter, after the coronavirus pandemic smothered its growth aspirations in Latin America and led the company to seek another $4.5 billion in government aid. Chicago-based United said first quarter revenues are seen at $8 billion, down …

“Tan Mom” Patricia Krentcil’s attempt at philanthropy yielded unfortunate results. Krentcil hosted her “QuaranTANned” benefit concert Friday from her Tampa, Fla., home to raise money for both a brand-new tanning bed and coronavirus, but flopped on both fronts. Krentcil, 51, claimed the tanning bed company didn’t get back to her when she tried to purchase. …

Amanda Kloots is hopeful for the road ahead with husband Nick Cordero. Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Kloots shared a clip of her wedding dance with Broadway star Cordero, 41, who had his right leg amputated over the weekend due to complications from the novel coronavirus. Amanda Kloots, Nick Cordero and their son, Elvis.Getty Images “Part …

Exhibition games begin Tuesday — in South Korea. There will be no spectators. Umpires will be wearing masks. Players will have their temperatures taken as they enter the stadiums. There even are supposed to be rules forbidding spitting and licking fingers. But the third-best league in the world after MLB and Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball …

Coronavirus is not a reason for us to accept arbitrary impositions or abandon our traditions of rational discourse. Should we, or should we not be compelled to wear face masks during a virus epidemic? It sounds a simple enough question. Indeed the answer seems so obvious to many, including the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, …