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Sen. Kelly Loeffler is cashing out to prove that she wasn’t cashing in. The Georgia Republican announced Wednesday that she and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, are liquidating their individual stock holdings to combat allegations of illegal insider trading. Loeffler is one of a handful of US Senators who …

Bethenny Frankel didn’t appreciate the season premiere of “Real Housewives of New York City.” The former Bravo star, 49, blasted the reality series in an interview with “Extra,” saying she felt insulted by the way her cast members talked about her. “The beginning of the show was the proverbial middle finger to me,” she said. …

Former “Bachelor” star Colton Underwood claims two controversial drugs heavily touted by President Donald Trump “saved” his life after he tested positive for coronavirus. The reality star, 28, told host Maria Menounos on her “Better Together” podcast on Tuesday that his doctor put him on two medications praised by the President in his daily press …

The owner of five ShopRite stores in New Jersey has died from the coronavirus, his family said on Wednesday. Steve Ravitz, 73, battled the deadly bug for 13 days in the hospital, his son Jason wrote in a Facebook post in which he shared a photo of a makeshift memorial for his father outside of …

Brake out your small violins for these older male celebrities — their hair has grown voluminously out of control in isolation. Humble bragging about how wild their hair has grown while sheltering in place has become a trend among famous men, who are sharing photos of their untamed quarantine locks while salons, barbershops and beauty …

Broadway can’t go on with the shows just yet. The Great White Way productions were initially expected to resume during the week of April 13, however, on Wednesday the Broadway League announced that theaters will remain dark through June 7 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage New York City. The decision was made in …

Lisa Vanderpump is heartbroken over the toll that the coronavirus has taken on her businesses. The restauranteur and reality star, 59, owns four establishments in Los Angeles, Villa Blanca, SUR, PUMP and TomTom. She runs TomTom alongside “Vanderpump Rules” cast members Tom Schwartz and Tom Sandoval. “It’s been devastating,” Vanderpump told Andy Cohen on Tuesday …

The Covid-19 pandemic is taking a bite out of McDonald’s bottom line. Comparable sales at the fast-food giant tumbled 22 percent last month as the coronavirus forced it to close dining rooms worldwide, the company said Wednesday. McDonald’s US stores were down 13.4 percent in March compared with an 8.1 percent increase for the first …

Television may start looking a bit too familiar. Networks, hamstrung by the inability to shoot new TV shows, may turn to reruns to fill programming slots. With no sense of when quarantine measures will lift amid the global coronavirus crisis, the big four networks, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, are mulling how to fill the …

Amazon is suspending shipping on non-Amazon packages as it struggles to keep up with customer orders during the coronavirus pandemic. The test program, known as Amazon Shipping, will be paused in June because the e-commerce juggernaut needs to shift its workers toward fulfilling its own orders, the Wall Street Journal reported. “We regularly look at …