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Walt Disney said Wednesday a total of 32,000 employees, mainly in its Parks, Experiences and Resorts division — including 28,000 already announced — will be terminated in the first half of its fiscal 20021, meaning by March. The entertainment giant previously unveiled in September the 28,000 staff cuts at parks, which…

UPDATED with latest: The United States on Wednesday reported the biggest one-day jump in Covid-19 related deaths since the height of the spring surge. According to Johns Hopkins University, 2,146 new American deaths due to the virus were reported on Wednesday. That works out to a grisly one death every 40…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says that it’s up to local authorities to ensure all members of vulnerable groups, including the African American community, receive the Covid-19 vaccination. “I recommend that the African-American community, particularly in…

Comcast’s plan to increase fees for a range of services, including broadband Internet and pay-TV, in January is eliciting a wave of online customer complaints. As more parts of business and society move fully online, the Philadelphia-based cable and broadband giant is also expanding a 1.2-terabyte home Internet data…

2ND UPDATE, 2:55 PM: FilmLA has issued a statement to Deadline about why it quickly rescinded an earlier order that restricted after-hours filming in Los Angeles: “FilmLA takes its direction on film policy from the government clients we contract with. The County and City each reversed their directives, originally…

Los Angeles County’s top hospital official on Tuesday said the county was struggling to accurately convey just how grave the region’s situation is vis a vis Covid-19. “There will likely be shortages in hospital beds and especially ICU beds in the next two weeks,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, director of the L.A. County…

Disney shares cooled off after a hot start to the week, dipping about 1.6% today to close the trading session at $149.08. Even with the slight retreat, though, the stock has fully recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels in a remarkable comeback that has a chance of continuing through the holiday season. The eyes of Wall Stree…

The federal government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has extended the deadline for the arranged sale of TikTok by one week, to December 4. In a brief legal filing Wednesday, government attorneys disclosed the latest extension, which followed a previous two-week reprieve to November 27…

As millions of Californians are traveling and gathering for Thanksgiving, the state is experiencing an unprecedented surge in infections and hospitalizations. The state has seen its three highest tallies of new cases ever in the past five days. On Tuesday, the number of new infections was 15,329. That’s down slightly…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has proven successful in having Kjersti Flaa's ambitious lawsuit against the tightknit group behind the Golden Globes tossed out, for the time being. "Defendants' Motion is GRANTED," wrote Judge Stanley Blumenfeld in a November 20 order that became public late yesterday…

Outages hit Amazon's cloud service Wednesday, impacting multiple apps and sites, the company said, from Roku to Adobe, Flickr, Twilio, Tribune Publishing and Amazon's own smart security division Ring, in its region covering the eastern U.S. "While features of multiple services are impacted, some services have seen…

Barack Obama's A Promised Land has sold 1.7 million copies in the U.S. and Canada during its first week of publication, the largest week-one sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House, according to the publishers. The figure includes 887,000 in first-day sales, another record-breaking for Penguin…