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Donatella Versace and her daughter Allegra Versace Beck have donated €200,000 ($222,315) to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital to aid in the fight against coronavirus. “In times like this, it is important to be united and support however we can to help all those who are in the front lines, fighting every day to save hundreds …
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Powerful music executive Sir Lucian Grainge has been hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus — just over two weeks after celebrating his 60th birthday with a host of power players including Kris Jenner and late-night TV host James Corden. Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music whose artist roster includes Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Drake, …
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A projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer, in an office in Warsaw June 24, 2013. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) U.S. Health and Human Services suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night, three sources told Bloomberg. Officials believed the attack was from a hostile foreign actor, and was designed to slow …
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Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York. January 4, 2018. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Wall Street took another hit on Monday as the Dow Jones plunged 2,250 points, or 9 percent, while the S&P 500 fell 8 percent and the Nasdaq 6 percent. Trading was halted …
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US stocks fell sharply enough Monday to halt trading for the third time in about a week as the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate cut failed to quell Wall Street’s growing coronavirus fears. The S&P 500 plunged 8.1 percent at the opening bell to 2,490.47, triggering a so-called circuit-breaker that stops trading for 15 minutes after a 7 …
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“Today’s” Al Roker and Craig Melvin are taking time off after a colleague on the third hour of the show contracted coronavirus. Anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb announced the news on Monday morning — while practicing social distancing themselves and sitting apart. The stars said Roker and Melvin will be off the air for …
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New York City mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at a news briefing at City Hall in New York City, March 14, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) New York City mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday announced the closure of all bars and restaurants in the city except for takeout services, as well as the closure of the …
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Deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus outside of China exceeded those inside for the first time on Sunday. As of Sunday, about 3,300 deaths from the illness were recorded outside China, while China itself has reported about 3,200 deaths, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University and first reported by the Wall Street Journal. Also, …
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An Australian journalist has tested positive for coronavirus just days after twice meeting Tom Hanks’ infected wife Rita Wilson. “I bet Tom and Rita feel bloody terrible,” Nine Network entertainment editor Richard Wilkins said after confirming he contacted COVID-19. Wilkins said he only got tested after the Hollywood couple announced last Wednesday that they were …
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 10, 2019 The Federal Reserve announced Sunday it was cutting interest rates by a full percentage point to near zero, and relaunched its bond-buyback program in an effort to battle market uncertainty in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. The moves mark …
Donatella Versace and her daughter Allegra Versace Beck have donated €200,000 ($222,315) to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital to aid in the fight against coronavirus. “In times like this, it is important to be united and support however we can to help all those who are in the front lines, fighting every day to save hundreds …
