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Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News Variety just published a graph that should horrify cable news executives: Yikes. https://t.co/dTwyOEI6ue pic.twitter.com/Zel6erjzrj — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) March 12, 2021 This data, showing significant declines in all of the major primetime cable news shows, came in a piece called, “Cable News Ratings Begin To Suffer Trump Slump.” Gavin … Read more

For some of the smallest businesses that applied for forgivable loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, waiting just a few days or weeks would’ve gotten them thousands of dollars more. But they had no way of knowing what was coming. The Biden administration in late February announced a slew of changes to the loan program, which offered … Read more

Anyone wondering why JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are holding stimulus checks until March 17, look no further than this. Each bank makes around $5,000,000 per day on overdraft fees. Since this is getting some attention, I’ll just say: 1. Banks, take a hard look at your overdraft fees and policies 2. Please keep wearing … Read more

CHICAGO (WLS) — Exclusive video shows the moment when someone fired shots inside a warehouse party on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend. The scene was chaotic, with bullets flying as people ran for cover. Now the mayor plans to hold the owner of that building responsible. The large party inside of a warehouse on … Read more

AccuWeather forecasters warn that a dangerous severe weather outbreak could put at least 17 states and more than 100 million Americans at risk across the United States this week. Severe thunderstorms will erupt each day through Thursday across parts of the southern U.S., with the greatest threat and potential for tornadoes Wednesday, lasting well into … Read more

The union for a Los Angeles trucking company, Teamsters Local 986, was forced out after nearly 80% of workers signed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to remove it. The National Labor Relations Act governs private sector workers, unionization and how workers can remove a union from their workplace. In 27 right-to-work states, … Read more

I didn’t expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots of my Bumble and Postmates accounts, which he had broken into. Then he showed he had received texts that were meant for me that he had intercepted. Later he took over … Read more

Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right to choose when they work, as it accepted they were classed as workers in line with … Read more

January 2018: * Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama was linked to NXIVM, the controversial self-help organization described by former members as a ‘sex cult’ * He spoke at an event in Albany, New York, in 2009 and put a Tibetan scarf round the neck of its founder Keith Raniere in what was said to be a ‘victory’ … Read more

Single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in Pembroke Pines, Florida, shortly after it took off from North Perry Airport at around 3pm Monday  Neighbor’s Ring camera caught the plane crashing into passing SUV and bursting into flames  Plane’s two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene  Woman and young child who were riding in the SUV … Read more

https://twitter.com/Boomieleaks/status/1371932231816638477 Four migrants with names on terror watch list picked up at border since October Four foreign nationals, whose names match those on the terror watch list, have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. via the southern border since October, a congressional aide familiar with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information told Fox News. … Read more

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release additional information about its purchases of organs harvested from aborted human fetuses, according to a statement issued by Judicial Watch on Monday. Two agencies under the HHS, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), … Read more

The LA Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment made sev­er­al crit­i­cal deci­sions in the inves­ti­ga­tion of Tiger Woods’ dev­as­tat­ing crash that were favor­able to the golf­ing leg­end — who was giv­en the ben­e­fit of the doubt despite indi­ca­tions he was inat­ten­tive or had dozed off, accord­ing to a report. Sher­iff Alex Vil­lanue­va announced on Feb. 23 — when … Read more