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Theaters rely on doing live performances but the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to close their doors and find new ways to deliver content and find audiences. The Old Globe Theatre quickly moved three strands of its programming online.

The coronavirus pandemic and its resulting impacts, feel like nothing we've ever experienced, but it’s not the first time a virus has swept the globe. Looking back to the last major pandemic, the 1918 flu, can inform our responses and add context to our current challenges.

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At 196 feet deep, Deep Dive Dubai has set the record for the deepest diving pool. Visitors can explore, play pool and chess, and visit an underwater library.

"It is financially tough," says Robert Momberger of Big Time Diner in Mobile, Ala. "Bills still keep on coming. So it really hurts to shut down, but sometimes that's the best thing to do."

Max Brooks' "World War Z" book and Steven Soderbergh's film "Contagion" accurately predicted many aspects of today's current pandemic and even suggested ways to better prepare for such global catastrophes. But since they were works of fiction most people dismissed them as mere entertainment. Here's how pop culture has been considering the notion of climate change for more than a century.

The 24-year-old was an alternate for the women's team at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. Sunday will be her last chance to compete at the Olympic level before retiring from gymnastics.

After their brother died, two sisters faced a barrage of misinformation, pandemic denialism and blaming questions. Grief experts say that makes COVID-19 the newest kind of "disenfranchising death."

Sharp Grossmont CEO Scott Evans says while they're not currently seeing the patient surge that was previously predicted, they're still standing by for a possible influx of patients.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said social media companies are "sufficiently akin" to a common carrier, like a telephone company, and should be "regulated in this manner."