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Eight corrections officers of color at the county jail where former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is being held say they were prohibited from guarding Chauvin and told they were a potential “liability” around him because of their race. The Ramsey County corrections officers have filed racial discrimination charges with Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights over what …

The $2.1 billion that went missing from Wirecard’s accounts likely never existed in the first place, the German payments processor said Monday as a massive financial scandal engulfed the company. Wirecard admitted last week that it couldn’t confirm the existence of some 1.9 billion euros attributed to its bank trust accounts last year. But the …

Serta Simmons has foiled efforts by Apollo Global Management, which is run by billionaire Leon Black, to stop a controversial debt restructuring in a precedent-setting move that could roil the debt markets. New York State Supreme Court Judge Andrea Masley ruled over the weekend the mattress seller could move forward on a plan to restructure $1.95 billion …

Sheltering in place is causing Americans to get a little, well, squirrelly. So many folks have time on their hands because of coronavirus-spurred joblessness and lockdowns, they’re paying more attention to the bushy tailed rodents scampering outside their windows — and opening their wallets to make them happy, according to a Wall Street Journal story Friday. …

In the wake of making some controversial statements to Variety yesterday about AMC not mandating face masks in those parts of the country that aren’t requiring them during the COVID-19 pandemic, CEO Adam Aron has changed the chain’s policy after hearing the social media backlash and is now requiring patrons to wear masks whether local …

One of three police officers involved in the shooting death of Louisville, Ky., resident Breonna Taylor will be fired, the city’s mayor announced on Friday. Termination proceedings against Louisville Metro Police Officer Brett Hankison have been initiated by department chief Rob Schroeder, according to the mayor. “Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that …

Wirecard’s chief executive quit on Friday as the German payments firm’s search for $2.1 billion of missing cash hit a dead end in the Philippines and it scrambled to secure a financial lifeline from its banks. Markus Braun, who built Wirecard into one of the hottest financial technology investments in Europe before questions over accounting …

Atlanta police officer Devin Brosnan, charged with aggravated assault in the death of Rayshard Brooks, called the shooting a “tragic event,” but denied claims from Fulton County district attorney Paul Howard that he was testifying against his former partner Garrett Rolfe. “I have full faith in the criminal justice system,” Brosnan said in a Thursday …

Virginia governor Ralph Northam hailed an “awakening” on “black oppression” on Wednesday in the wake of the George Floyd demonstrations, while again denying he appeared in a yearbook photo featuring a man in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan regalia. “There’s been an awakening of really what Black oppression is,” Northam told NBC’s Lester …

Portland police on Thursday quickly dismantled an “autonomous zone” that protesters attempted to set up outside the mayor’s residence in the city the previous night. Protesters on Wednesday night used items including dumpsters and stolen construction materials to build an “autonomous zone” in Portland’s Pearl District near an apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler reportedly lives. …