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Speaking from the podium in the White House meeting room, Trump said team president Randy Levine “asked me to throw the first pitch” at Yankee Stadium. Trump said he accepted the offer and asked Levine, “What will the crowd be like?” “You don’t have a crowd,” said the president. “There’s …

Twitch’s audience has increased since the pandemic began. The audience increased to 5 billion hours of observation between April and June, which is a huge increase, no matter how you look at it: it has increased more than 50 percent since the first quarter of 2020, and it has increased …

Wednesday was a day of macabre milestones in California. Counties across the state reported more deaths than any previous day of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data collected by this news organization: 155, pushing the cumulative number of deaths north of 8,000 and the average of seven. more than 96 …

The NBA continues to get closer to its official restart. Four exhibition games were scheduled throughout the day Thursday with the Los Angeles Lakers from the Western Conference facing the Dallas Mavericks at 7 p.m. ET on the Walt Disney World campus. The game is one of two available on …