Washington — Media mogul Barry Diller suggested top Hollywood executives and the highest-paid actors take a 25% pay cut “to try and narrow the difference” between the highest and lowest earners in the industry as TV and movie actors joined screenwriters on strike. “Everybody’s probably overpaid at the top end,” …
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July, 2023
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10 July
The New York Times will no longer have a sports news desk
The New York Times will eliminate its 35-member sports desk and plans to rely on staff at The Athletic, a sports news startup the media outlet bought last year, for coverage on that topic, the paper announced Monday. Two of the newspaper’s top editors — Joe Kahn and Monica Drake …
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8 July
Gregory Bender’s double life is exposed in the hospital when his wife meets his fiancée
This article was previously posted on July 9, 2022. In 2016 Jessica Devnani was dating Gregory Bender, a successful hedge fund manager, who lived near Orlando, Florida. What Devnani didn’t know at the time was that Bender had been keeping a secret from her. The secret would be exposed while …
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7 July
U.S. destroys last of its declared chemical weapons
The last of the U.S. declared chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed in eastern Kentucky at a military installation, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Friday, a milestone that closes a chapter of warfare dating back to World War I. According to the Defense Department, the last sarin nerve agent-filled M55 …
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June, 2023
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30 June
Hollywood actors’ union extends contract deadline, delaying potential strike as talks continue
Los Angeles — Major Hollywood stars have been giving a big boost this week to writers on the picket lines. “Your fight is our fight,” acting legend Jane Fonda declared during a rally outside Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles Thursday. While the Writers Guild of America strike is about to …
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29 June
Clinic in Superfund town submitted 337 false asbestos claims costing government more than $1 million, jury says
Missoula, Mont. — A federal jury ruled Wednesday that a health clinic in a Montana town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure submitted 337 false asbestos claims that made patients eligible for Medicare and other benefits they shouldn’t have received. The seven-person jury said that the fraudulent …
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29 June
Chinese spy balloon didn’t collect information while flying over U.S., Pentagon says
The Chinese balloon that flew over the U.S. earlier this year did not collect any information before it was downed off the coast of South Carolina, the Pentagon told reporters Thursday. As the balloon flew down into the continental U.S. from Alaska and to the East Coast, the U.S. military …
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27 June
California man sentenced to more than 6 years in cow manure Ponzi scheme
A California man has been sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for duping investors by telling them he was using cow manure to create green energy, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Monday. From March 2014 through December 2019, Ray Brewer, 66, falsely told investors he was building …
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23 June
DEA seizes over 200 kilos of fentanyl
Washington — Federal prosecutors charged four China-based companies and eight Chinese nationals with allegedly supplying the precursor chemicals of fentanyl for the purpose of creating the deadly drug for distribution in the United States, the Justice Department announced Friday. Across three indictments unsealed in the Southern and Eastern Districts of …
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20 June
Feds penalize auto shop owner who dumped 91,000 greasy pennies in ex
One boss got so angry after a former employee contacted government labor regulators about a missing paycheck that he delivered the money in the form of 91,000 greasy pennies dropped on the worker’s driveway. Now, the Labor Department has found that Miles Walker, the owner of A OK Walker Autoworks in …
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