Paramount Pictures(LONDON) — Tom Cruise and Paramount are apparently sparing no expense to get the COVID-19-delayed Mission: Impossible 7 movie back on track — including transforming an old British military base into an isolated community for cast and crew.  The Sun reports the abandoned RAF site in Oxfordshire will shelter the movie’s cast, who will reportedly be staying in VIP trailers…… Read More

iStock/supersizer(NEW YORK) — Your dog or cat doesn’t know why you’ve been working home since the COVID-19 pandemic demanded it, but they’re sure happy about the extra face time — and chances are you are, too.  In fact, according to a new survey, 20% of people working from home say they prefer working alongside their dog or cat…… Read More

wanderluster/iStock(NEW YORK) — After weeks of both anecdotal and verified reports of high COVID-19 mortality rates at U.S. nursing homes and assisted care facilities, new government data shows pandemic deaths there number nearly 32,000.  Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the week ending May 31 shows there were 31,782 COVID-19 deaths…… Read More

da-kuk/iStock(NEW YORK) — The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 stands at 107,685 as of Thursday afternoon, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. But that number could be four times higher by this time next year, says Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.  “All of the best models suggest that…… Read More

Richard Schiff in “The Good Doctor”; ABC/Art Streiber(NEW YORK) — Richard Schiff is hinting that a reunion of the cast of the Emmy-winning NBC drama The West Wing could be in the works, and like those that brought the casts of shows like Community back together, a charity component would be involved.  Schiff had been…… Read More