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The ruling said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post's opinion desk.
Karen Attiah wrote on social media after the right-wing influencer's assassination that she would not display sadness and shared the activist's past racist comments about Black women.
NYTimes – Business The ruling said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post's opinion desk.
The ruling said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was the last Black full-time member of the Post's opinion desk.
Arbitrator determined the Post improperly fired Karen Attiah, a union-protected employee, over social media posts An independent arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to rehire the high-profile opinion columnist Karen Attiah, abruptly fired by the news organization last September over comments she made on social media about Charlie Kirk , the then recently slain conservative activist. On Monday, an arbitrator r…
NYTimes – Business An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
NPR – US Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada is resigning after the botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections and remains in critical condition. The state's governor announced Strada's departure as an independent review examines what went wrong. Strada had insisted his team followed protocol. Pike's lawyers said the failure "goes far beyond any one person."
Kenan "Ken" Urker, 34, the on-and-off partner of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and father of her daughter, was found dead inside his Louisiana home on his 34th birthday during a welfare check on Thursday. Authorities are investigating an apparent drug overdose. Blanchard's former husband Ryan Anderson said he was "shocked" and offered support to Blanchard's family.
Federal prosecutors charged a Mississippi shop clerk and his son with selling an illegal kratom product while investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students, Aidan Hamilton and Robert Strang, who apparently ingested kratom last month. Authorities had warned against kratom derivatives after the Sept. 21 investigation.
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