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Hollywood hitmaker David Foster is promoting music education during the coronavirus pandemic after he was contacted by a Brooklyn teacher. “I was actually contacted by a music teacher from a school in Brooklyn,” said Foster.” “Will Mosley from PS 149, saying that his music students are stuck at home without musical instruments and could I …
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George Stephanopoulos tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend, nearly two weeks after his wife, Ali Wentworth, confirmed her diagnosis. Stephanopoulos, who has been broadcasting “Good Morning America” from home, told his co-hosts Monday morning that his diagnosis is “really no surprise,” but that he has been “basically asymptomatic” — unlike Wentworth, who previously described …
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Dutch growers reportedly destroyed millions of tulips in recent weeks as the coronavirus crisis uproots the global floral industry. Some 140 million tulip stems were scrapped over the past month amid coronavirus-related lockdowns that have caused demand for flowers to wilt, an official at Dutch flower auction firm Royal FloraHolland told The New York Times. …
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U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson credited the care of the National Health Service (NHS) with saving his life after a week in the hospital spent battling COVID-19, admitting that “things could have gone either way” in his first public comments since being discharged from the hospital. “I have today left hospital after a week in …
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Like his photographs, Anthony Causi’s legacy lives on. Causi, the heartfelt, charming and passionate Post photographer who died Sunday at the age of 48 after contracting the coronavirus, spent a quarter-century documenting New York sports through his lens. Without him, the sidelines will never feel the same. “Anthony Causi was a fixture at the Garden …
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CHICAGO, April 12 — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving “perilously close to the edge” in supplies for grocers. Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain, crimping …
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When the coronavirus shuttered the Big Apple — resulting in thousands of people losing their jobs — chef Matt Jozwiak was ready. Jozwiak had already been feeding as many as 10,000 New Yorkers a week through his nonprofit, Rethink Food, which turns excess food from restaurants into meals for the needy. By April — as …
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The numbers are numbing, the tales terrifying. You can spend all day reading and learning and discussing COVID-19, and the way it affects our lives every day. You can spend a portion of every hour doing your part — praying, if that’s your way, or thinking positive thoughts, or keeping the afflicted close to your …
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Anthony Causi, a longtime photographer for The Post whose prolific talent and larger-than-life personality made him a fixture in the New York sports world, died Sunday of the coronavirus at North Shore University Hospital. He was 48. Causi is survived by his wife, Romina, and their children, John and Mia. “Anthony Causi was our colleague, …
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BAKU/DUBAI/LONDON — OPEC and allies led by Russia agreed on Sunday to cut oil output by a record amount — representing around 10 percent of global supply — to support oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic, and sources said effective cuts could amount to as much as 20 percent. Measures to slow the spread of …