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Questions about the U.S. Postal Service operations and leadership during the November election are rising, but it can be hard to discern from corporate media coverage what is actually happening. Many different networks have accused President Trump of disrupting USPS operations for political gain, even going so far as to claim he wants to “rewrite …

The US government is auctioning wearable true crime conversation pieces. Fraudulent merch from the ill-fated Fyre Festival is now up for sale at a Texas auction house. The collectors items from the notorious 2017 scam event are selling at a steep discount from incarcerated Festival co-founder Billy McFarland‘s original markup. “This Fyre Festival-branded clothing and …

Normally live-and-let-live Upper West Siders are freaked out that the city’s Department of Homeless Services converted a third large neighborhood hotel into a “temporary” homeless shelter – without even warning them first. The Hotel Lucerne at 201 W. 79th St. on Monday began welcoming the first of nearly 300 homeless men, many of them methadone …

Twitter’s response to an unprecedented hack reportedly muzzled a National Weather Service office in Illinois — just as a tornado loomed over the area. The weather service’s Lincoln, Illinois, branch was among the verified users who were blocked from tweeting after hackers took over the profiles of several celebrities and politicians. That meant forecasters couldn’t …

An executive at Vice Media on Wednesday blasted advertisers for demanding their ads stay clear of sensitive topics online, including the words “George Floyd,” “Black Lives Matter” — and even “black people.” Since nationwide protests broke out over racial injustice at the hands of police, advertisers and their ad agencies have started asking that their …

The pandemic shutdown has enabled “Supernanny” star Jo Frost to shift into high gear — off-camera — to help parents cope with the virus and its impact on their family dynamics. Frost, 49, was in the midst of shooting her series, which moved to Lifetime in January after a six-year run on ABC (2005-2011), when …

The top editor at Refinery29 has resigned amid complaints by former staffers of a toxic work culture that favored white employees. Christene Barberich, the 15-year-old, female-focused site’s longtime global editor in chief who also was one of its founding members, announced on Monday she was stepping down after a handful of former employees took to Twitter …

When Christopher Rim and Wafa F. Muflahi met seven years ago as undergraduates at Yale, they became close friends, which evolved into a strong working relationship. For the past five years they’ve been colleagues at education and college consulting firm Command Education in Midtown, where Rim’s the CEO and Muflahi’s a partner and senior program …

The Trump administration has ordered Marriott International to wind down hotel operations in Communist-run Cuba, a company spokeswoman told Reuters, extinguishing what had been a symbol of the US-Cuban detente. Starwood Hotels, now owned by Marriott, four years ago became the first US hotel company to sign a deal with Cuba since the 1959 revolution …

The long and murky relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Deutsche Bank has caught the attention of New York regulators. Months of investigation by the New York’s financial watchdog agency, the Department of Financial Services, may spur a punishment of the German lender for its decision to keep the famous sex criminal as a client years …