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Nissan and Honda on Tuesday said they had furloughed thousands of workers at their US operations as the coronavirus pandemic slashes demand for cars in the country. A spokesman for Honda, which employs about 18,400 workers at plants in Alabama, Indiana and Ohio, said the Japanese automaker would guarantee salaries through Sunday, having suspended operations …
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R. Kelly will have to stay trapped in the lockup while he awaits trials on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and child pornography, a judge ruled Tuesday. The 53-year-old R&B icon filed requests with federal judges in the Windy City and Brooklyn to spring him from Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center, arguing that both his age …
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Verizon customers whose internet goes on the fritz may not be able to get back online until November, some griped Tuesday, as the company enacted a new repair policy in response to the coronavirus crisis. At-home service would now be limited to “critical needs” in order to prevent the spread of the virus, Verizon said …
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Formula One has put almost half its staff on furlough until the end of May due to the novel coronavirus with chairman Chase Carey and senior management also taking a pay cut, an F1 spokesman said on Tuesday. Sources said those on furlough were mainly employees whose work was race-weekend focused and who could not …
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CBS News on Monday issued a clarification after promoting a story about a nurse who claimed she was asked not to wear a face mask while working in a coronavirus response unit. Imaras Vera earlier this week posted a video of herself in tears on social media, announcing she had quit her job as an …
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Looks like there’s plenty of drama unfolding on this season of “The Real Housewives of New York City.” Dorinda Medley appeared on Maria Menounos’ show, “Better Together,” on Monday, and revealed which “RHONY” star she would least like to be quarantined with in her Berkshires, Mass. estate. “Probably, Tinsley [Mortimer],” she said, quickly adding, “Because, …
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When thinking through the wisdom of COVID-19 lockdowns and orders, commentators often compare the value of lives saved against some loss of economic output (GDP) to determine whether the measure was cost‐effective. But this is an apples vs. oranges comparison. The value of a statistical life is some calculation of what the average U.S. citizen is …
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President Trump hammered the World Health Organization on Tuesday over its response to the coronavirus pandemic, accusing it of being partial to China and endangering countries by recommending borders be kept open. “The W.H.O. really blew it,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We …
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MLB officials on Monday sketched out for the first time to the Players Association a vision of re-starting first spring training in May and then beginning a season a few weeks later, with all of the training and games played exclusively in Arizona with no crowds. The Associated Press and ESPN were first to outline …
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‘One World: Together at Home’ is a weirdly complacent name. There is a classic Simpsons episode in which young Bart falls down a well. Local celebrities, with the aid of guest star Sting, decide to band together to do something about it. Their magnificently useless contribution is to band together to perform a song in …
Nissan and Honda on Tuesday said they had furloughed thousands of workers at their US operations as the coronavirus pandemic slashes demand for cars in the country. A spokesman for Honda, which employs about 18,400 workers at plants in Alabama, Indiana and Ohio, said the Japanese automaker would guarantee salaries through Sunday, having suspended operations …
