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41-year-old New York Mets General Manager Jared Porter has admitted to sending unwanted explicit photos to a foreign correspondent covering Major League Baseball in 2016, ESPN’s Mina Kimes and Jeff Passan report. Speaking to ESPN, the woman said she ignored over 60 texts from Porter, who worked for the Chicago Cubs at the time, before he proceeded to send […]
Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer widely referred to as a “citizen journalist,” has been sentenced to four years in prison in connection with her reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pudong New Area People’s Court in Shanghai handed down the sentence on Monday, with the charges said to be “picking fights […]
Jeffrey Toobin has been fired from The New Yorker after a weeks-long investigation into the “Zoom dick incident.” “I was fired today by [The New Yorker] after 27 years as a staff writer,” the veteran journalist tweeted Wednesday. “I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work.” […]
Kanye West has violated Twitter’s rules, NBC News reports. The tweet in question, which was sent out on Wednesday and has since been removed, saw Kanye share the phone number of a Forbes editor. Sharing the personal details of a person is against the social media company’s rules as they see it as a violation of a […]
Donald J. Trump, known liar, declined to discuss his favorite pastime—lying—when asked about it on Thursday. In a remarkable moment, Trump was met with an inquiry regarding his track record of falsehoods from reporter S.V. Dáte during a White House press conference. “Mr. President, after three and a half years, do you regret, at all, […]
Over the weekend, Wall Street Journal reporter Tyler Blint-Welsh tweeted about being hit in the face “multiple times with riot shields” by the NYPD during protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd. Now, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has confirmed its investigation into the assault. While a spokesperson for the DA’s office confirmed the investigation into […]
Concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus have reportedly gotten the best of Donald Trump, and the president apparently told his aides he’s afraid of a journalist giving him the Wuhan-originated virus on purpose. A former West Wing official told Vanity Fair Trump is frustrated that he can’t “control the narrative” of the health crisis, with the confirmed cases and death […]
The CNN offices in New York City have been evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered in the company’s mailroom, according to multiple reports and live tweets from the staff. “The device was constructed with a pipe and wires,” CNN’s Jessica Schneider tweeted. “Law enforcement authorities treating device as real explosive.” Following developments on […]
