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No gym, no tan, no laundry. “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, 37, is working with Garden State officials to urge people to stay home during the coronavirus pandemic. “This message is for the people, by the people: We got a situation,” he said in the clip, posted Monday. “New Jersey is tough,” the …

Walmart will check employees’ temperatures at the start of their shifts to prevent them from working with coronavirus, company executives said Tuesday. Walmart and Sam’s Club staffers who give a reading of at least 100 degrees will be sent home until they go three days without a fever, company officials said. Sick employees will still …

Zoom illegally gave Facebook its users’ personal data without telling them, according to a new lawsuit against the teleconferencing company that has seen its business surge amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company failed to tell users that it gave Facebook and “and possibly other third parties” access to personal information it collected whenever they installed …

Savannah Guthrie returned to the “Today” show studio Tuesday after almost two weeks working from home after a coronavirus scare. “This is studio 1A — I haven’t been here in a while!” the 48-year-old host said as she opened NBC’s breakfast show having been given the all-clear after self-isolating with “a little sore throat” and …

White House Coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, March 29, 2020. White House Coronavirus Task Force response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Monday said U.S. deaths from the illness will eventually reach between 100,000 and 200,000, even if Americans continue …

Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 16, 2019 . The Justice Department is probing a series of stock trades made by Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C.) in the weeks prior to the outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus in the U.S., CNN reported on Sunday. The probe is being coordinated with …

President Trump on Sunday extended his administration’s guidelines for social distancing for stemming the spread of the coronavirus to last through the end of April, scrapping his initial goal of reinvigorating the economy by Easter Sunday. “Nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won,” Trump said at Sunday’s briefing with the …

Yet another celebrity has announced that they’re fighting coronavirus, and this time, it’s Kalie Shorr. The 25-year-old country music star took to Twitter on Monday to discuss her diagnosis. “Despite being quarantined (except for a handful of trips for groceries) for three weeks, I managed to contract COVID 19,” stated Shorr. “I’m feeling significantly better, …

Pete Alonso is going to bat for Noah Syndergaard. The Mets first baseman took issue with a Sports Illustrated story examining if pitchers should be getting Tommy John surgery while the nation’s health care system is strained by the coronavirus pandemic and after several states imposed a ban on non-essential surgery in order to free …

MEXICO CITY — Tenor Placido Domingo said Monday he is resting at home after catching the new coronavirus. Domingo said in a statement that he is “at home and I feel fine.” The 79-year-old was reportedly hospitalized in Mexico after publicly acknowledging on March 22 that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and said he …