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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 – Politics Two former FBI intelligence officials who worked on foreign election interference have been charged with making false statements to Congress about their roles in investigating the origins of Hunter Biden's laptop. Federal prosecutors allege the pair lied about their knowledge of the bureau's probe. The charges come as Republicans have long accused the FBI of mishandling the laptop investigation.
Sky News – Front Page A federal magistrate judge has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. The BBC has accused Trump of seeking to delay the deposition until January 2027; failure to comply could risk dismissal of the suit. Trump filed the lawsuit last December.
NYTimes – US Kaylub Giamanco, the 36-year-old father who shot and killed the 16-year-old gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, spoke publicly for the first time in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting. He described driving by the school, seeing the shooter preparing to enter, telling a 911 operator "I have to go in," and confronting the attacker. Giamanco, whose two daughters attend the school, said he was the children's "last line of defense" and regrets not arriving sooner to save more lives. Three children and one teacher were killed in the attack.
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