• DOJ Won’t Release List of Obama Officials Who ‘Unmasked’ Flynn

    DOJ Won’t Release List of Obama Officials Who ‘Unmasked’ Flynn

    The Department of Justice is not planning to release a declassified list of Obama administration officials who were reportedly behind the “unmasking” of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to multiple reports. Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell handed over the list to Attorney General Bill Barr last week, after the DOJ dropped …
  • Facebook to pay content moderators $52M in class action settlement

    Facebook to pay content moderators $52M in class action settlement

    Facebook will pay content moderators who are tasked with repeatedly monitoring graphic material on its platform $52 million as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement. The social media company was sued in 2018 by third-party contractors who argued Facebook failed to adequately protect them against psychological injuries than can result from continued exposure to disturbing …
  • Tribune Publishing to furlough 160 union staffers a week per month

    Tribune Publishing to furlough 160 union staffers a week per month

    Tribune Publishing and The Chicago Tribune Guild, the union representing its newsroom employees, have reached a tentative agreement to furlough 160 editorial staffers for one week in the months of May, June and July, while postponing discussions of longer-term furloughs until at least the end of July. The union tweeted the terms of the tentative …
  • Carlyle saved from losses by backing out of American Express deal: sources

    Carlyle saved from losses by backing out of American Express deal: sources

    Private equity firm Carlyle Group’s abrupt decision to pull out of a $450 million investment in American Express’ troubled travel agency business could help it save a foundering new investment strategy, The Post has learned. The $195 billion Washington, DC, firm last week said it would be bowing out of plans to buy a 20 …
  • Ginger Zee gives mental health update: ‘I see the darkness’

    Ginger Zee gives mental health update: ‘I see the darkness’

    Ginger Zee, who suffers from depression, says she feels the darkness creeping in amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I wake up some mornings, still, and I see the darkness,” she wrote on Instagram for Mental Health Awareness Month. “I feel it’s slow creep, like blinds on the windows on a timer. Slowly closing, trying to take …
  • Dakota Johnson says her depression is ‘beautiful’

    Dakota Johnson says her depression is ‘beautiful’

    Dakota Johnson has learned to accept into her depression. “I’ve struggled with depression since I was young — since I was 15 or 14,” she told Marie Claire’s summer 2020 issue. “That was when, with the help of professionals, I was like, ‘Oh, this is a thing I can fall into.’ But I’ve learned to …
  • Netflix developing film about 1999 US Women’s Soccer team

    Netflix developing film about 1999 US Women’s Soccer team

    Netflix has set in motion a feature centered on the 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer team winning the FIFA World Cup. Who can forget the iconic moment when Brandi Chastain scored the winning penalty shootout goal and took her jersey off in celebration? The news was announced by Vice President of Netflix films, Tendo Nagenda. The …
  • IRS gives taxpayers one more day to speed up coronavirus stimulus checks

    IRS gives taxpayers one more day to speed up coronavirus stimulus checks

    Americans have just one more day to speed up delivery of their coronavirus stimulus checks. The Internal Revenue Service set a deadline of noon Wednesday for taxpayers to submit direct-deposit information online to have the money dropped straight into their bank accounts. Those who don’t use the IRS’s “Get My Payment” tool to do so …
  • Celebrity telethon raises $115 million for New Yorkers affected by coronavirus

    Celebrity telethon raises $115 million for New Yorkers affected by coronavirus

    NEW YORK — Tina Fey shed tears after announcing that more than $115 million was raised toward supporting New Yorkers impacted by COVID-19 during a virtual telethon. “Thank you, thank you,” said a tearful Fey, the host of the Rise Up New York! event Monday evening. The Emmy-winning actress along with other A-list celebrities from …
  • DOJ Considering Federal Hate Crimes Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Killing

    DOJ Considering Federal Hate Crimes Charges in Ahmaud Arbery Killing

    The Justice Department on Monday announced it was considering pressing federal hate crimes charges in the killing of African-American Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery. “The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia have been supporting and will continue to fully support and participate …