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DJ Jim Halpert on the decks. The coronavirus pandemic has caused schools across the country to close, and while high school students are completing the year from home, seniors are missing out on events such as graduation and prom. John Krasinski decided he wanted to do something for 2020 seniors stuck inside and announced he …

Toronto’s return to Hogwarts has been postponed for the time being. The Canadian production of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which was slated to open on Oct. 23 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre, has been pushed back to 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Exact dates have yet to be announced. …

First, it was bars, restaurants, hotels. And clothing stores, movie theaters, entertainment venues. And countless small businesses, from bookstores to barber shops. Now, the record-setting flood of layoffs unleashed by the viral outbreak is extending beyond the services industries that bore the initial brunt and are still suffering most. White collar employees, ranging from software …

Tyler Cameron took a break from TikToking with Hannah Brown to help teach middle school students forced to take online classes while quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic. The former “Bachelor” contestant, 27, surprised a class of sixth graders when he hopped on their Google Meet lesson Thursday to help teach a lesson about advertising on …

Facebook is canceling all large gatherings until June 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday. The social network is also extending its requirement that employees work from home through the end of May, and will permit employees who don’t feel comfortable coming in to work remotely “through at least the summer.” “A small percent of our …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the company is on its way to building the capacity to test all of its employees for the coronavirus. In a shareholder letter, Bezos said that the e-commerce juggernaut is on the cusp of being able to begin tests on employees in its warehouses, and will eventually be …

US stocks attempted to shrug off another surge in unemployment filings on Thursday only to slip back into negative territory by the afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open before dropping as much as 292.97 points, or 1.2 percent, in midday trading after being …

George Stephanopoulos, who revealed this week he has tested positive for COVID-19, is being accused by a hacked-off neighbor in the Hamptons of not following social-distancing guidelines. The 59-year-old co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” — whose wife, Ali Wentworth, earlier this week emerged from a three-week battle with the deadly bug — has been …

Paul Singer’s Elliott Management said global stocks could tumble further, ultimately losing half or more of their value from February’s high, as the world braces for the deepest recession since the 1930s-era Great Depression. The New York-based hedge fund firm, in a letter to clients on Wednesday seen by Reuters, wrote that the sharp market …

An IRS glitch appears to be stopping Americans who broke even on their latest tax returns from speeding up their coronavirus stimulus checks. Millions of people file federal income tax returns without owing extra money or getting a refund. Yet this group claims the Internal Revenue Service has forgotten to include them in its online …