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Tesla workers coming off the night shift at the Fremont, Calif., factory on March 17, 2020.

Elon Musk outburst over ‘fascist’ coronavirus shutdown shows pressure to keep up growth

May 1, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

Elon Musk's emotional eruption on a conference call with analysts Wednesday followed a couple high-stress events. It burst forth when a financial expert asked the Tesla chief executive about how...

Drummer Tony Allen performs on September 22, 2018, at Officine Grandi Riparazioni in Turin, Italy.

Tony Allen, famed Afrobeat drummer for Fela Kuti, dies in Paris

May 1, 2020 at 7:44 a.m.

Tony Allen, who drummed his way out of Lagos, Nigeria, with Fela Kuti to become an architect of the Afro-beat sound, has died. Allen's work on percussion starting in the...

"Parks and Recreation Special" -- Pictured in this screen grab: (l-r) Jon Glaser as Jeremy Jamm, Jay Jackson as Perd Hapley, Ben Schwartz as Jean-Ralphio Saperstein, Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins, Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson, Aubry Plaza as April Ludgate, Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt, Retta as Donna Meagle, Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer, Rob Lowe as Chris Traeger, Jim O'Heir as Jerry Gergeich, Jason Mantzoukas as Dennis Feinstein.

Review: The ‘Parks and Recreation’ reunion is the perfect medicine for uncertain times

May 1, 2020 at 9:04 a.m.

The main cast and a nice slice of the supporting one reconvened after five years Thursday night on NBC for "A Parks and Recreation Special." They came to raise money...

Britney Spears announced in an Instagram video that she'll pick three fans whom she'll help buy much-needed items as communities face home isolation, supply shortages and mounting unemployment.

Britney Spears casually reveals she burned down her home gym

April 30, 2020 at 3:40 p.m.

Oh, Britney. In a classic Britney Spears move, the "Oops ... I Did It Again" hitmaker casually revealed on Instagram that she burned down her home gym. "Hi, guys, I'm...

Kim Kardashian attends the 2019 E! People's Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on Nov. 10, 2019 in Santa Monica, Calif.

Streaming Friday from famous people’s closets — a virtual runway show

April 30, 2020 at 3:25 p.m.

What will the fashion world look like — especially the runway-show part — in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic? Right now, that's anybody's guess. But a YouTube special streaming...

A rendering of the Janus seat. The middle seat is reversed to isolate passengers.

After coronavirus: Your next flight may look like this

April 30, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

You may be wearing a mask. Middle seats could be empty on purpose. And the newest passenger may be a sky janitor. Welcome to what may be airline travel in...

The same gear recommendation applies for doctors, nurses and healthcare support staff who enter the room of a COVID-19 patient, medical transport workers and mortuary workers, the CDC says. But with the shortage of N95 masks, which filter air as it goes in and as it goes out, the CDC advises giving N95s only to workers who perform tasks that carry the most risk of aerosolizing the virus and providing less-protective surgical masks to people who do other jobs.

How to handle the pandemic at work

May 1, 2020 at 2:20 p.m.

How to handle the pandemic at work.

‘The Half of It’ review: Netflix has another rom-com winner in high school story

April 30, 2020 at 10:43 a.m.

For filmmaker Alice Wu, romance is a gantlet to be run, a portal through which we experience the pain and embarrassment necessary to teach us what love is. Wu's second...

Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly in the FX series "Mrs. America."

Want to know more about the real ‘Mrs. America’? Here’s your reading list

April 29, 2020 at 8:48 a.m.

"Mrs. America" is an ambitious limited series telling the story of the decade-long battle over the Equal Rights Amendment. Like a second-wave feminist version of "Avengers: End Game," the nine-part...

TV reporter (and Christopher Reeve’s son) swears he wasn’t pantsless during live segment

April 29, 2020 at 7:35 a.m.

Superman's son is just like the rest of us: He doesn't always wear pants while working from home. Will Reeve, a reporter for ABC and the son of late "Superman"...

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