• Bruce Willis shaves daughter Tallulah’s head in quarantine

    Bruce Willis shaves daughter Tallulah’s head in quarantine

    The Willis-Moore house seems like the best place to be during the coronavirus pandemic. Not only did the entire family — including exes Bruce Willis and Demi Moore as well as their children Tallulah, Scout, Rumer and their boyfriends — sport matching pajamas and pose for a goofy portrait, but the patriarch has also started …
  • China Eases Wuhan Lockdown Despite Fears of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases

    China Eases Wuhan Lockdown Despite Fears of Asymptomatic Coronavirus Cases

    The Chinese government is relaxing restrictions on the city of Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, despite concerns that asymptomatic cases of the coronavirus linger in the city. Dr. Yang Jiong, director of respiratory medicine at Zhongnan Hospital in Wuhan, said that there may be 10,000-20,000 asymptomatic cases of coronavirus in the city …
  • Dems Demand Half of $251 Billion in Additional Small Business Loans Be Targeted to Minority, Women-Owned Companies

    Dems Demand Half of $251 Billion in Additional Small Business Loans Be Targeted to Minority, Women-Owned Companies

    The White House is requesting an additional $251 billion for additional small business lending as part of the government’s coronavirus response, eliciting a counter from congressional Democrats asking for $125 billion in targeted aid for farmers, women, minorities, and veteran-owned businesses. “I’ll be asking Congress to provide an additional $250 billion for the paycheck protection, …
  • Kushner Considering Using Personal Patient Data to Create National Coronavirus Surveillance System

    Kushner Considering Using Personal Patient Data to Create National Coronavirus Surveillance System

    Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is leading an effort to develop a national coronavirus surveillance system in order to track patient data almost in real time, Politico reported on Tuesday based on conversations with four people involved in the ongoing effort. The system would allow the federal government to monitor where and for what …
  • Stocks climb despite rising coronavirus death toll in US

    Stocks climb despite rising coronavirus death toll in US

    US stocks posted early gains Wednesday even as the nation’s coronavirus death toll continued to mount. The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 349.75 points, or 1.5 percent, as hopes about the pandemic peaking persisted on Wall Street. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite also climbed as much as 1.3 and 1.4 percent, …
  • Naomi Watts documents quarantine meltdown as appliances break on same day

    Naomi Watts documents quarantine meltdown as appliances break on same day

    Naomi Watts is having a case of the Mondays on a quarantine Tuesday. Taking to Instagram, the 51-year-old actress documented her indoor meltdown as multiple appliances bit the dust in the same 24-hour period. “Quarantine Day #756: When your printer, vacuum cleaner and dishwasher all break in the same day…. #ffs,” Watts captioned the Instagram …
  • GM to make 30,000 ventilators to help US fight coronavirus pandemic

    GM to make 30,000 ventilators to help US fight coronavirus pandemic

    General Motors will make 30,000 ventilators within five months to support the US’s fight against the coronavirus, the feds said Wednesday. The automaker will deliver the life-saving machines to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of August through a $489.4 million contract with the federal Department of Health and Human Services, officials said. It’s …
  • Tesla to furlough staff, cut salaries as coronavirus idles factories

    Tesla to furlough staff, cut salaries as coronavirus idles factories

    Tesla plans to furlough non-essential workers and cut employees’ salaries now that the coronavirus crisis has halted production at some of its factories. The electric-car maker will furlough staff who cannot work from home and are not performing crucial work at its plants, a company official told US employees Tuesday. Tesla expects to restart normal …
  • Anna Wintour says doctor son treating coronavirus patients is ‘quite ill’

    Anna Wintour says doctor son treating coronavirus patients is ‘quite ill’

    Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour has revealed that her physician son, who works at a Manhattan hospital on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, is quite ill and under quarantine. “My son is a doctor,” Wintour said on Instagram. “He is currently quite ill and self-quarantining at home, but when he is able, he will …
  • Chinese Official Tries to Walk Back Claim U.S. Military Brought Virus to Wuhan

    Chinese Official Tries to Walk Back Claim U.S. Military Brought Virus to Wuhan

    A community worker measures the body temperature of a man as police officers inspect his documents at a checkpoint set up at an entrance to a street in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China February 20, 2020. China Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian held his first press conference in several weeks on Tuesday, attempting to walk back …