Image copyright iSle of Wight Festival Image caption The Isle of Wight Festival will no longer be taking place this year The Isle of Wight and Download have become the latest music festivals to be cancelled due to the coronavirus. Duran Duran and Lionel Richie were due to appear alongside Supergrass and Kaiser Chiefs at […]
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Earlier this week, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, were told an employee in the facility tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Then they went back to work. “After they told us, the building was just running as it has been,” said Terrell Worm, an Amazon
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The story of air travel’s shutdown can be told in numbers. Helane Becker, managing director and senior airline analyst at Cowen, an investment bank, estimates between 40 and 60 percent of United States domestic flights have been canceled. Cancellations of international flights are even higher, about 85 percent, she said. But photographs will do just
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The WNBA has announced its draft will be a virtual event this season due to the coronavirus pandemic By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer March 26, 2020, 3:06 PM 4 min read NEW YORK — The WNBA draft will be a virtual event this year. The league announced Thursday that its draft will still be
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On Monday, nearly 100,000 call attempts were made by 10 a.m., when the call center normally receives 6,000 calls in an entire week. The department put in place a new process under which those filing claims submit their forms at specified times based on their last names. Even so, Ms. Haavind said, the crush of
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WASHINGTON — Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — almost five times the previous record set in 1982 — amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The surge in weekly applications was a stunning reflection of the damage the viral outbreak is inflicting on the economy. Filings for unemployment
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In the coronavirus era, buying your groceries via an online delivery service feels a lot like the lottery meets “The Hunger Games” meets utter stress. Wow @FreshDirect I refreshed the window as soon as new time slots for deliveries opened and they are already all booked 🙁 Have been trying to get a slot for
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Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel unleashed a new nickname on President Donald Trump Wednesday. (Fast forward to 1:42 in the video above.) In another quarantine monologue during the coronavirus pandemic, the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host took aim at a seemingly sarcastic tweet that the president posted after Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) tested negative for COVID-19, the
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Chris Fox gets hands on with Huawei’s P40 Pro Huawei has launched a range of new flagship smartphones despite the coronavirus pandemic. The firm unveiled the P40 phones a day after the firm’s founder announced that 90% of the company’s 150,000 China-based employees had returned to
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve on Thursday contradicted President Donald Trump’s push to reopen the economy as soon as possible, advising that curbing the spread of the coronavirus is “the first order of business” and recommending the advice of public health experts. “The sooner we get the spread of the virus under control, people
