Accountability
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PayPal rewrites its history of politically motivated debanking as it seeks FDIC approval for bank
Company known for "mafia" of influential tech leaders claims its revised policy language simply "make[s] clear what has always been the case," at odds with more than a decade of its sanctions across ideological lines.
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Big Brother? WHO food tax proposal draws warnings it may inflate grocery prices
World body wants to help countries tax stand regulate prepackaged foods.
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Trump complains as Fox News airs ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on midterm night
Trump has long favored the right-leaning news channel, but has genuinely been willing to take potshots at its personalities and guests.
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Selena Gomez asks judge to toss lawsuit over mental health startup, calling fraud claims 'absurd'
Gomez’s attorneys argue in the motion that the lawsuit does not specify any false statements the singer made personally to investors and that she was not even a member of the board.
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WNBA breaking viewership records, with and without high-profile controversies, beefs
The WNBA game Sunday between the Indian Fever and Chicago Sky averaged 3.31 million viewers and peaked at 3.82 million viewers.
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WNBA, pro-abortion coffee shop risk lawsuits for denying public accommodations based on wrongthink
Public financing and ownership of WNBA stadiums may require teams to follow First Amendment norms when it comes to fans supporting Sophie Cunningham's stance against males in women's sports, commissioner warned.
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Paramount blasts Mark Ruffalo's comment associating merger with 'genocide' against Palestinians
A Paramount spokesperson called Ruffalo's remarks "antisemitic" and said that "words like ‘genocide’ and ‘apartheid,’ applied to a corporate transaction, aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far."
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WaPo ordered to rehire columnist who described Kirk as 'white man who espoused violence'
In its termination letter, the Post said that Attiah had harmed "the integrity" of the newspaper and violated company policies requiring employees to use social media with civility.
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While Trump sharply cuts foreign aid, past abuses from the Obama-Biden era keep piling up
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Democrats have a pecuniary interest in keeping foreign aid going because nonprofit recipients of federal largesse are big Democrat donors.
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Louisiana billed in trash-collection contract for buildings appearing vacant, non-existent: audit
Auditors separately found 442 duplicate addresses that cost the city $318,767 between December 2022 and March 2026
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New York Times ordered to pay $9.25 million in defamation suit from former Alabama basketball player
Kai Spears was an 18-year-old freshman walk-on basketball player for the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide when New York Times sports writer Billy Witz falsely identified Spears as being a passenger in the car at the site of a January 2023 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.
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Seattle Times columnist quits after paper spikes column arguing Cunningham's stance not transphobic
His column argued that the position supporting the separation of biological females and males in sports doesn't automatically make one transphobic, and he urged people to stop throwing that label around. According to Calkins, his column was passed through a series of editors who informed him they weren't going to run it.
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Congressional probe targets consulting reports that helped make DEI quotas a boardroom standard
Four unreplicated consulting reports became the evidentiary basis for hiring quotas — and the data behind them has never been released for scrutiny.