Airbnb is laying off about 25% of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic upends the travel industry and threatens the company’s core business. On Tuesday, the short-term rental startup said nearly 1,900 employees will be let go worldwide, out of 7,500. “We are collectively living through the most harrowing crisis of our lifetime, and as
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We’ve addressed early questions about testing for Covid-19, but plenty remain. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the latest on the different types of coronavirus tests and how well they work. You can listen on your favorite podcast app or read the transcript below. Dr. Sanjay Gupta: When you were a kid, did
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Famed Seven Kingdoms philosopher Tywin Lannister once said this when asked about concerns regarding his leadership: “A lion does not concern itself with the opinions of the sheep.” Simply put: The lion is a lion. He does what he wants and what he needs to do. Worrying about what his prey think about him is
Continue Reading(CNN) — The White House coronavirus task force will start to wind down later this month, a senior White House official told CNN on Tuesday. The official said the task force “will be phased down around Memorial Day. We will continue to have key medical experts advising (President Donald Trump) daily and accessible to press
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Nine-year Formula 1 veteran Nico Hulkenberg believes the enforced break the sport is having to undergo because of the coronavirus pandemic offers the perfect time to make some changes. The start of the 2020 season has been delayed, with the first 10 races of the season being either postponed or canceled because of safety concerns
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Nine-year Formula 1 veteran Nico Hulkenberg believes the enforced break the sport is having to undergo because of the coronavirus pandemic offers the perfect time to make some changes. The start of the 2020 season has been delayed, with the first 10 races of the season being either postponed or canceled because of safety concerns
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Police in Holly, Michigan, have arrested a 68-year-old man on assault charges after he entered a Dollar Tree on Saturday and wiped his face on an employee’s shirt. Holly Police Chief Jerry Narsh said the man entered the store at around 1:30 p.m. Saturday without a mask, despite an executive order in the state requiring
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SANTA FE, New Mexico – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is ordering workers at retail stores and restaurants to wear face coverings as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19, she announced at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. The requirement is starting with big box stores and major grocery stores on Wednesday and extends
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Police in Holly, Michigan, have arrested a 68-year-old man on assault charges after he entered a Dollar Tree on Saturday and wiped his face on an employee’s shirt. Holly Police Chief Jerry Narsh said the man entered the store at around 1:30 p.m. Saturday without a mask, despite an executive order in the state requiring
Continue Reading(CNN) — Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint Tuesday alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favored by President Donald Trump led to his removal. Bright had led the Biomedical Advanced
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Face masks, it seems, have become a new fault line in America. The decision to wear or avoid them in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic signals whether people have chosen to adhere to public-health guidelines — a stress that’s playing out on personal and political levels. For some, the tension over face masks has
Continue Reading Police in Louisiana urged residents to be on the lookout for a suspect that has been terrorizing bank customers in Walker. They warned that the suspect is ignoring social distancing rules and the orders of Gov. John Bel Edwards by harassing customers at the ATM and drive-thru, chasing people and trying to get into vehicles.
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It’s a gamble playing out across the country, and the stakes are unknown. More than half of the states have started reopening, including many that have not met White House guidelines on when to do so. The big question now is whether the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths will surge. But don’t be fooled:
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AUSTIN, Texas — During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that “cosmetology salons, barbershops, hair salons, nail salons and tanning salons” may reopen this Friday, May 8 under certain restrictions. Hair stylists will be able to only work with one customer at a time. People waiting in barber shops will have
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NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will make history later this month: On their next mission, slated to take off May 27, they will be the first crew to fly in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. The flight has been years in the making, and it will mark several other firsts: The first time astronauts
Continue Reading Because Covid-19 scientific and medical information changes frequently, our nation is going to need adaptable guidelines to safely ring the school bell this fall. As I see it, we need to solve three problems. First, we need strategies to keep this particular coronavirus from entering campuses nationwide. Second, we need measures to decrease person-to-person transmission.
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The national meat shortage has come for Wendy’s. The fast food chain says some menu items are unavailable, and one analyst estimates nearly one in five of Wendy’s restaurants are out of beef. Around 1,000, or 18%, of Wendy’s 5,500 US restaurants are not serving any hamburgers or other meat-based items, according to an analysis
Continue Reading #GivingTuesday came early this year, to be celebrated on May 5. The annual day of giving has grown into an emergency global response to the coronavirus pandemic. The event usually happens on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, but because of the unprecedented need, it was moved up and renamed #GivingTuesdayNow. A traditional #GivingTuesday event is still
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Cady Groves is being remembered by the music community. The news of Groves’ death hit fellow musicians hard on Monday and several took to social media to share their condolences. Trevor Dahl, a former collaborator on her single “Oh Darling” wrote, “i’m so so sad to find out about the passing of @cadygroves will miss
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Intelligence shared among Five Eyes nations indicates it is “highly unlikely” that the coronavirus outbreak was spread as a result of an accident in a laboratory but rather originated in a Chinese market, according to two Western officials who cited an intelligence assessment that appears to contradict claims by President Donald Trump and Secretary of
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For weeks now, President Donald Trump has been making the case that the coronavirus originated not in nature but in a lab in Wuhan, China. He said late last week that he had a “high degree of confidence” that was what happened (although he didn’t specify why he felt that way) and on Sunday night
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President Donald Trump now knows the price of the haunting bargain required to reopen the country — tens of thousands more lives in a pandemic that is getting worse not better. It’s one he now appears ready to pay, if not explain to the American people, at a moment of national trial that his administration
Continue Reading Researchers are “reading the rocks” and the history they show on Mars to paint a picture of when the planet supported liquid water on its surface billions of years ago. New highly detailed images and data of exposed cliffs on Mars reveal the first evidence of rivers that existed for more than 100,000 years on
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Attorney General William Barr made a last-minute push Monday to persuade the administration to modify its position in the Obamacare dispute that will be heard at the Supreme Court this fall, arguing that the administration should pull back from its insistence that the entire law be struck down. With a Wednesday deadline to make any
Continue Reading After two joint flyover missions with the Air Force’s Thunderbirds, the US Navy’s Blue Angels are going solo this time. On Wednesday, the Blue Angels have a planned flyover mission over New Orleans, Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth area to salute frontline workers. The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, the US military’s flight demonstration squadrons, previously
Continue Reading The inherent contradiction in “Becoming,” Netflix’s documentary about Michelle Obama, is repeatedly articulated by the former First Lady herself: How can someone reclaim a semblance of a normal life when you are one of the world’s most recognizable figures? The latest project under the Obamas’ Netflix production deal doesn’t fully answer that riddle, but it’s
Continue Reading A star-studded lineup of Latino celebrities will come together on Cinco de Mayo to raise funds for those helping to keep America fed during the pandemic. The “Altisimo Live!” benefit concert and festival is aiming to raise $3 million, $5 at a time, for the Farmworkers’ COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund which was created by Justice
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The federal government is taking unprecedented action to keep American businesses alive during the coronavirus pandemic. Congress has set aside hundreds of billions of dollars to lend to small, medium and large companies. Small businesses have taken out more than half a trillion in forgivable loans. And for the first time ever, the Federal Reserve
Continue Reading Today is Teacher Appreciation Day, and if there has ever been a time when appreciation for teachers is sky high, it is now. With the coronavirus pandemic closing schools, parents are now de facto homeschool teachers, discovering just how hard it is to teach. Social distancing has changed the usual means of saying “thank you.”
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Today is Teacher Appreciation Day, and if there has ever been a time when appreciation for teachers is sky high, it is now. With the coronavirus pandemic closing schools, parents are now de facto homeschool teachers, discovering just how hard it is to teach. Social distancing has changed the usual means of saying “thank you.”
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