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Boeing is seeking to increase black US employees throughout the company by 20 percent and mandate benchmarks for hiring people of color, Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees in a memo on Friday reviewed by Reuters. US corporations have become more responsive to complaints related to racial equality following a summer of sweeping anti-racism protests …

Airbnb said Wednesday its employees could choose to work remotely through the end of August 2021, even if some of its offices reopened as COVID-19 restrictions ease. The company said it would provide a $300 stipend for home office equipment, with an additional $200 to cover ergonomic equipment. Airbnb said its employees will also have …

The Kate McKinnon-led series about Carole Baskin and the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic has received a multi-platform series order at NBCUniversal Television, Variety has learned. The limited series, currently titled “Joe Exotic,” is now set to air on NBC, Peacock and USA Network. In addition, Etan Frankel has boarded the project as writer and executive producer …

Uber and Lyft saw their stocks soar after an eleventh-hour stay allowed the companies to avoid a service shutdown in California. The ride-hail giants were set to suspend service in their largest US market Thursday at midnight after a judge ruled they had violated the state’s Assembly Bill 5, which requires companies to classify their …

“Welcome to Sweetie Pies” star and producer James Timothy Norman has been arrested on federal charges stemming from the 2016 killing of nephew, 18-year-old Andre Montgomery. Norman, 41 — who starred on the popular OWN reality series with his mother and family — was charged with conspiracy to use interstate commerce facilities (a cellphone) in …

A 2009 tweet from Ellen DeGeneres in which she said she made an employee cry resurfaced on Tuesday, but it’s not what it seems. “I made one of my employees cry like a baby on today’s show,” she wrote on June 5, 2009. “Honestly, it felt good.” A source told Page Six that the tweet …

Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t know where the no-eye-contact rule came from on the set of her eponymous daytime talk show. Sources told Page Six exclusively that during DeGeneres’ Zoom call with her staff on Monday afternoon, she addressed the unspoken rule that prevented anyone from looking at her. “I don’t know where it started,” said DeGeneres, …

Ellen DeGeneres’ ex-girlfriend Anne Heche has weighed in on the daytime talk show host’s ongoing toxic workplace scandal. “I haven’t spoken to Ellen in years. I’d listen to the people who have,” Heche, 51, told Mr. Warburton magazine for its cover story. Heche described their nearly four-year relationship as “a beautiful part” of her life …

TikTok and its US employees are planning to take President Trump’s administration to court over his sweeping order to ban the popular video app, according to a lawyer preparing one of the lawsuits. The employees’ legal challenge to Trump’s executive order will be separate from a pending lawsuit from the company that owns the app, …

Deion Sanders’ deal with Barstool came together quickly over the past three weeks as Sanders decided to turn down an NFL Network extension offer that would have cut his seven-figure salary in half. The Barstool Sports agreement comes with the promise that it will be fully supportive of Sanders’ ongoing pursuit of a college football …