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Thanks to social distancing guidelines, he wasn’t in the room where it happened. But Lin-Manuel Miranda managed to take part in a staff briefing at one of New York’s largest hospitals to thank its workers who are battling the city’s horrific COVID-19 outbreak. New York Presbyterian’s executive vice president, Dr. Laura Forese, gives a live …

Amazon is facing its second labor strike at a Staten Island warehouse where workers fear more than two dozen people have come down with COVID-19, according to labor groups who issued an advisory about the noon action. Workers at the Bloomfield distribution center, called JFK8, are walking off the job at 12 p.m. on Monday …

In these trying times, even celebrities have to do their own maintenance. “Guardians of the Galaxy” star Chris Pratt and his son Jack, 7 — who was not pictured — were spotted giving the actor’s golden Volkswagen Beetle a wash on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. Photos show the 40-year-old donning a black T-shirt, Under …

A proposed luxury coronavirus retreat where the wealthy could quarantine to “mingle, no masks required,” has been scrapped. A now-removed Web site for Harbor — the retreat dreamed up by Jay Jideliov of tech company Callision, and Mikhail Larionov — offered, “a safe place fueled by compassion, creativity, and acceptance,” for those who made the …

Lady Gaga says she has raised $35 million to help fight the coronavirus — and is joining forces with the World Health Organization for a virtual concert that will serve as a “moment of global unity” amid the pandemic. The “Bad Romance” singer announced Monday that she had called on the “greatest artists in the …

JPMorgan Chase top boss Jamie Dimon on Monday said he sees a “bad recession” in 2020, and that the largest US bank could suspend its dividend if the coronavirus crisis deepens. Dimon, widely regarded as the face of the US banking sector, is the most prominent voice on Wall Street so far to project that …

Dairy farmers are dumping giant loads of milk down the drain as the coronavirus crisis spoils demand for products like butter and cheese. Farmers say they’ve been left with nowhere to send their raw milk now that widespread closures of schools, restaurants and other businesses have shut dairy processors out of some of their largest …

Florida beaches remained packed with partying college students as the coronavirus crisis gathered force, and the Republican governor was slow to impose social distancing in a tourist-dependent economy. That may come back to haunt the US state — and not just in the form of a sky-rocketing case load. According to a newly released study …

Stocks surged Monday amid signs that the coronavirus crisis is easing in some hard-hit places even as US officials warned of a brutal week ahead. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as much as 1,082.97 points, or about 5.1 percent, in early trading as the number of virus fatalities appeared to slow in Italy, France, …

A former Tekashi 6ix9ine associate who was caught partying in his apartment after his release from jail because of the coronavirus outbreak may now face more time in prison when he is sentenced in June. Manhattan federal court Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote in an order filed Monday that video shows the rapper’s former pal, Kintea …