Pharrell Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Kenya Barris and Van Jones are working with Global Citizen and Teneo to help galvanize companies and state governments to recognize Juneteenth as a paid holiday.
"Any malls that will open in New York, large malls, we will make it mandatory that they have air filtration systems that can filter out the Covid virus," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
On Monday, the Broadway League, a trade organization representing producers and theater owners, announced that Broadway performances in New York City will be suspended through the remainder of 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
"We are definitely seeing this affect young people, and they're getting quite ill. So we really need everybody to do their part," Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday.
"People like to say we're not in a second wave. I don't know what a second wave [is] if that's not a second wave," Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told CNBC on Monday.
The governor is expected to make an announcement on the current reopening guidelines in New York City and the state's response to the ongoing pandemic.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday partly blamed spikes in the number of coronavirus cases nationwide on demonstrations in support of Black Lives Matter.
As with many facets of life nowadays, checking into a hotel has changed in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Here's a look at what one stay at a Hudson Valley hotel in upstate New York was like in late June.
Azar also denied that states reopening prematurely was tied to the spike in coronavirus cases and instead blamed "inappropriate individual behavior" that has spread the virus.
David Howell Evans, known as the "the Edge" and Adam Clayton, from the rock band U2, are backing a new technology fund in Ireland, which is aiming to raise 100 million euros ($112 million).
Taiwan's economy has held up better than most Asian countries, thanks in part to how well it handled the coronavirus outbreak, said an economist from research house Capital Economics.
Renewed limits on social activities has dampened the pace of recovery, as evident from the nearly 69% drop in tourism revenue during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival that officially ended Saturday.
To pay for a trip to Mars, Elon Musk's SpaceX intends to transform the Earth, blanketing the planet in internet coverage beamed down from Starlink satellites and generating billions in revenue. There's a lot of work left to do on the ground.