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ESPN changes Michael Jordan documentary date
ABC/ESPN’s highly anticipated 10-part Michael Jordan documentary, “The Last Dance,” is being moved up to April, The Post has learned. Sources said the start date will be Sunday, April 19. It was originally slated for June. ABC/ESPN plans to make an announcement on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, according to sources. ESPN declined to confirm …
Meghan Markle’s Disney debut gets a drubbing from critics
Meghan Markle’s performance as narrator of a documentary about elephants has been branded ‘over-eager to please’ and packed with ‘schmaltz and cheesiness’ by critics. The Duchess of Sussex, who officially steps down as a senior member of the Royal Family today with Prince Harry, provided the voiceover to the Disney production after a direct request from …
Trump brags the U.S. is sending medical aid to ITALY despite hospitals warning of shortages at home
President Trump boasted that the U.S. would send $100 million in medical supplies to Italy despite American hospitals fretting about shortages at home due to the coronavirus epidemic. ‘We’re going to be sending approximately $100 million worth of things, of surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy,’ Trump told reporters Monday in the White …
Amazon fires Staten Island coronavirus strike leader Chris Smalls
Amazon has fired a Staten Island warehouse worker who organized a strike to demand greater protections for employees amid the coronavirus outbreak. Chris Smalls, a management assistant at the facility, known as JFK8, said he was fired Monday afternoon following the strike. Smalls and other employees walked out to call attention to the lack of protections …
Hungary’s Viktor Orban gets sweeping powers under ‘coronavirus bill’
The government has said that the emergency powers are necessary to fight the outbreak, but political analysts say they have questions about whether Orban will relinquish them when the health crisis subsides. Hungary has 447 coronavirus cases and 15 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. “He is using this crisis to further increase his …
White House Coronavirus Task Force Holds Briefing : NPR
President Trump speaks in the White House’s Rose Garden on Sunday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Trump speaks in the White House’s Rose Garden on Sunday. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Updated at 6:15 p.m. ET President Trump warned Americans on Monday to prepare for more disruption and death as he …
Islamic State detainees mutiny at prison in Syria
Kurdish officials said earlier they were also hunting for an unknown number of detainees who managed to escape in what appears to have been the most serious attempted breakout yet by the thousands of former Islamic State fighters detained after their military defeat last year. An official with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the …
Coronavirus update: Md. Gov. Larry Hogan issues ‘stay at home’ order; FEMA grants DC disaster declaration
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has issued a “stay at home” order, directing Maryland residents not to leave their homes unless it’s for an “essential” purpose, such as getting food or medicine or going to work at a job that’s been deemed essential. The latest Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has issued a “stay at home” order, …
D.C., Virginia and Maryland coronavirus updates
Surgical masks and rubber gloves are the two most recognizable symbols of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is another: newly boarded up storefronts on fashionable corridors around the country, including several in the District. The silver letters that spell “Michael Kors” are all that’s visible on the chain’s Georgetown exterior, now sheathed in planks of wood. …
Johnson & Johnson to begin clinical trials on coronavirus vaccine candidate
Johnson & Johnson said Monday human testing of its experimental vaccine for the coronavirus would begin by September and that it could be available for emergency use authorization in early 2021. J&J also said it has committed more than $1 billion of investment along with U.S. agency Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which is …
