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Cannabis sales are touching new highs as customers across the US and Canada stockpile weed to prepare for long spells of isolation because of the coronavirus pandemic. Between March 16 and March 22, sales of recreational cannabis across key US markets, including California, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska, were up 50 percent and medical marijuana sales …

Jazz great Manu Dibango, best known for his 1972 hit “Soul Makoosa,” has died from complications of the coronavirus, according to a statement on his official Facebook page. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the loss of Manu Dibango, our Papy Groove, who passed away on 24th of March 2020, at 86 years …

Erykah Badu charged fans just $1 to livestream a concert that she performed in her bedroom — with a band wearing surgical masks. Her “Quarantine Concert Series: Apocalypse One” show — which will help support her band while their shows are indefinitely on hold — streamed on her BaduWorld Market site Monday night. “I got …

Sales of new US single-family homes fell in February after surging in the prior month, and could decline further because of the coronavirus pandemic, which is boosting unemployment and severely disrupting economic activity. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday new home sales dropped 4.4 percent, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 765,000 units, in …

Better make those lip kits last. Kylie Jenner‘s Kylie Cosmetics and Kim Kardashian‘s KKW Beauty have both been forced to stop production amid the coronavirus outbreak. The fulfillment centers that work for the beauty lines were closed under Cailfornia’s statewide shelter-in-place order. KKW Beauty shared the news on Twitter on Monday. “Due to current health …

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna holds a news conference in Lisbon, Portugal, November 6, 2019. A group of 20 House Democrats led by Representative Ro Khanna of California released a letter on Monday calling for a nationwide shelter-in-place order to stem the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. “To effectively slow COVID-19’s spread, we must issue a shelter-in-place order …

It’s a supersize lapse in judgment. Last week, the social-media accounts of McDonald’s Brasil separated the brand’s Golden Arches in order to encourage social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak, Ad Age reported. But the reimagined spaced-out M has since been scrubbed after critics slammed the move as insensitive. “F - - k right off you award-desperate morons,” wrote …

Concerns over the coronavirus pandemic have caused Dennis Quaid to postpone his wedding to much-younger fiancée Laura Savoie. “We postponed … once we started to hear about [coronavirus in] Italy,” Quaid recently told Extra. “We have a few members of the family and friends who have low immune systems due to medical treatment, medical issues …

President Trump said Tuesday that he would love to see the U.S. economy reopen by Easter, even as millions of Americans remain largely confined to their homes in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “I’d love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News. “I would love to have the …

Nick Lachey put a spin on Music Monday in honor of the ongoing coronavirus quarantine. The 46-year-old “Love Is Blind” host and singer shared a parody of “The Hardest Thing,” a hit single performed by his old pop group, 98 Degrees, that discusses washing hands, isolating and social distancing. “We both know that we shouldn’t …