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Chris Rock blamed the Democrats for letting “the pandemic come in” by focusing too much on trying to impeach President Trump,  according to a new report. The comedian, 55, opened up in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times in which he touched on the current state of politics and discussed his new show …

Massive federal spending meant to blunt the coronavirus’s economic impact could have long-term costs, experts say — meaning those stimulus checks might not be free money after all. Congress’s unprecedented stimulus measures coupled with the Federal Reserve’s aggressive efforts to shore up the economy could drive up inflation in the coming years, leaving Americans with …

Some 860,000 Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on the US labor market, the feds said Thursday. Last week’s initial jobless claims dropped from the prior week’s revised total of 893,000 but brought the total for the coronavirus pandemic to more than 61 million — a number …

Israeli intelligence suspects that the horrendous coronavirus is a runaway Chinese biological weapons virus. The Wuhan Coronavirus which has shocked the world seems to have traced its origins.The brother of the virus that caused the SARS epidemic also originated not far from ‘his brother’. Reporting from the Washington Times, Radio Free Asia this week has …

In October, 2019 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, together with his wife, runs the richest, most powerful foundation in the world, co-organised a simulation exercise on a worldwide corona epidemic. In October, 2019 Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who, together with his wife, runs the richest and most powerful foundation in the world, co-organised a simulation …

Nearly half of high-income New York City residents have considered moving away from the city in the last four months, according to a Manhattan Institute/Siena College poll released Wednesday. The coronavirus pandemic has brought much of city life to a standstill, and many residents with the means to do so have left New York to …

JPMorgan Chase will not pay for junior sales and trading staff to take an Uber to work, reversing actions the bank took after the COVID-19 pandemic to help staff feel comfortable about commuting to work, Bloomberg News reported. The change was communicated by managers last week, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of …

The disastrous debut of Warner Bros’ spy thriller “Tenet” at movie theaters has Hollywood studios fingering the panic button.  “Tenet” — a $200 million Christopher Nolan production which has amassed less than $30 million in ticket sales since it hit US theaters on Sept. 3 — has given Tinseltown a wakeup call, with studios grappling …

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates pinned near zero on Wednesday and promised to keep them there until inflation is on track to “moderately exceed” the US central bank’s 2 percent inflation target “for some time.” The change in guidance is part of a monetary policy shift announced by the Fed last month that is …

The coronavirus pandemic may not damage the global economy as badly as previously feared, an influential group says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday that it now expects worldwide gross domestic product — a key measure of economic health — to drop by 4.5 percent this year, down from its June forecast …