Then-Nevada GOP gubernatorial nominee Joe Lombardo, right, campaigns with former President Donald Trump at a rally in Minden, Nev., on October 8, 2022. AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool Trump threatened to nix support for Joe Lombardo after he declined to call him “great,” per the NYT. Lombardo, in an October debate, said Trump was “sound,”…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Interpreter Keith Wann is suing Theatre Development Fund for reportedly firing him based on race. Wann said he was asked to not intrepret ‘The Lion King’ Broadway show in April because he is white. “To me, just seeing that discrimination, it doesn’t matter if I’m white or black,” Wann said. A…
U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Alex Wong/Getty Images Nancy Pelosi said on CNN that the GOP response to the attack on her husband was “disgraceful.” Pelosi added that she has heard anecdotally that it turned some voters off from the GOP. She said Paul Pelosi gets “closer to recovery” with each day…
Louis Nastro/Reuters A United flight attendant was taken to a hospital after an altercation with an unruly passenger. The Chicago Police Department told Insider it responded to reports of “a disturbance that had occurred on a plane.” “We’re grateful to our crew for handling this difficult situation,” United said in a statement. A United flight…
Former President Donald Trump, right, welcomes Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama to the stage during a “Save America” rally at York Family Farms in Cullman, Ala., on August 21, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rep. Mo Brooks said ex-President Donald Trump should not be the GOP presidential nominee in 2024. In an interview with AL.com, Brooks…
Less than two days after Twitter’s first attempt to charge for account verification ended in disaster, Elon Musk announced the company is working on a new way to authenticate users. On Sunday afternoon, he tweeted the social media website would soon begin rolling out a feature that will allow organizations to identify accounts that are…
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Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) told Elon Musk, “Fix your companies. Or Congress will,” after Musk snarkily replied to the senator’s concerns about fake verified accounts on Twitter, and suggested Markey’s real account “sounds like a parody.” On Friday, Markey sent out a tweet containing a link to a…
Tech layoffs may get worse before they get better — which means that the next few months will be full of companies trying to pivot their way to survival during this extended downturn. At least that’s what entrepreneur Nolan Church, who helped lead Carta’s 2020 layoffs as its chief people officer, thinks. He estimates that…
The FBI came very, very close to using the Pegasus spyware tool in criminal investigations, according to a new report from the New York Times. It’s a tool that can basically steal the contents of someone’s phone. The FBI had previously said they had looked into using the tool made by Israeli spyware firm NSO…