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Coronavirus testing declined more than 30 percent over the last week despite rising infection rates in many localities and the Trump administration’s efforts to increase testing across the country. Commercial labs in the U.S., which only recently were overwhelmed with samples to test, are now waiting on new samples as testing capacity goes unused, Politico …
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Senator Susan Collins walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 27, 2017. Senator Susan Collins is taking issue with President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling it “very uneven” as she struggles to maintain approval in her home state of Maine ahead of her reelection bid this November. “It’s …
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A man passes by a billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping as the spread of the coronavirus continues in Belgrade, Serbia, April 1, 2020. Documents reveal that Chinese President Xi Jinping waited six days to publicly warn about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, after his top officials determined that the situation was “likely to develop into …
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Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan has spent a decade preparing his megabank for the next financial crisis, but he still wasn’t fully prepared for the coronavirus pandemic. On a Tuesday morning call with reporters discussing first-quarter results, the chief executive said his $2.3 trillion bank is ready to weather the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak, but …
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Debt-strapped Le Pain Quotidien was working to shrink its US presence even before the coronavirus pandemic battered its business, The Post has learned. The Belgian bakery’s website says says it “temporarily closed” all its US outlets last month “out of an abundance of caution” due to the crisis. In reality, sources say, the struggling restaurant …
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Shameless scammers will try to steal coronavirus stimulus checks, according to federal officials, who say common sense precautions can stop them in their tracks. Officials say con artists will try a wide range of schemes to bilk Americans out of the $1,200 payments the Trump administration has started delivering to help people shore up their …
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H&M, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, said on Wednesday it had started producing protective aprons at a supplier and would deliver one million aprons to the Swedish health care system over the coming two weeks. The company is one of a number of fashion retailers mobilizing to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Larger rival Inditex, …
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Michael Costello is calling out celebrities who are unwilling to lend a hand in the face of the coronavirus crisis. The fashion designer, 37, is on a mission to create one million face masks to distribute to those in need. But when he enlisted a few of his star clients to help out, it seems …
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Cinemark, the third-largest movie theater chain in the US, has laid off half of its corporate staff and furloughed 17,500 hourly workers due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Cinemark said the 50 percent of workers who have been furloughed at its Plano, Texas, headquarters will continue to receive 20 percent of their salary as well as …
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The Internal Revenue Service’s online tracker for stimulus checks went on the fritz Wednesday as millions wait for the money to hit their accounts, according to frustrated taxpayers. Some Americans were reporting errors with the new tool, Get My Payment, which was launched to help taxpayers figure out when to anticipate their payments. “The IRS …
Coronavirus testing declined more than 30 percent over the last week despite rising infection rates in many localities and the Trump administration’s efforts to increase testing across the country. Commercial labs in the U.S., which only recently were overwhelmed with samples to test, are now waiting on new samples as testing capacity goes unused, Politico …
