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☆ Trump wishes Melania happy birthday from the hallway outside his NY criminal trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In front of television cameras and a gaggle of journalists, former President Donald Trump wished his wife, Melania Trump, a very happy birthday Friday morning, moments before he entered the courtroom for his criminal hush-money trial. "I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very happy birthday," he told reporters in the downtown Manhattan courthouse hallway. Trump is spending the day in Manhattan's criminal court, where he's on trial for charges alleging that he falsified business documents to disguise payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. AdvertisementTrump did not address why Melania Trump, or any of his other family members, have not attended the trial to support him. Trump said he listened to the arguments Thursday night, after his court day in Manhattan, and "thought it was really great."

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☆ What it’s like inside The Black Dog, the London pub made famous by Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

A local London pub that’s been thrust into an unexpected spotlight and onto the tourist map, thanks to musician Taylor Swift. Unexpected fameThe Black Dog pub is in an unassuming residential area of Vauxhall in south London. Taylor Swift fans Jenna Spackey and Maddie Essig came to check out The Black Dog pub after listening to the song. The Black Dog pub says the past few days have been "immense." Hageman compares “The Black Dog” song to a “fable” – it’s probably not based entirely in reality.

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☆ The seemingly AI-generated ads for 'Civil War,' A24's most expensive film, are laughable — especially if you're from Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

One image appears to show soldiers in a boat somewhere near Los Angeles pointing their guns at a giant swan. "These are AI images inspired by the movie," the source told the outlet. Promotion for the horror-comedy "Late Night with the Devil" has been bogged down by complaints that the filmmakers used AI. AdvertisementMarketing for "Civil War" has been controversial even beyond the use of AI, with some people criticizing it as misleading. The images A24 posted do not do that feeling — or the movie they're supposed to be promoting — justice.

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☆ Opinion: It’s time to change the way we think about sociopaths
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —This piece contains mild spoilers for the Netflix series “Ripley” and a scene in the movie “Civil War.”Are we finally ready to take another look at why we love to hate sociopaths so much? But his rendition of Ripley – highly capable, chameleonic, but never what you’d call charming — represents a refreshing take on one of the most famous sociopaths in literature and film. Gagne feels Hollywood’s nearly always gotten it wrong with portrayals of sociopaths, reducing them to a collection of cartoonish, villainous traits. In fact, I found one of film’s most recent sociopaths to be singularly chilling because of his very plausibility. He’s in Alex Garland’s “Civil War,” the polarizing film about a vaguely-sketched conflict set in the modern-day United States.

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☆ A brand aimed at moms is using a porn star to create uncensored videos showing how to use its products
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mother and baby company, Frida, has opted to use a porn actress in its product explainer videos. The company has previously had social media posts and TV adverts rejected due to nudity. AdvertisementA mother and baby company, Frida, has given up on working around censorship on social media and is turning to a porn actress to showcase its products instead. But the company struggled to find ways to share how to use Frida products without TV networks and social media censoring them. AdvertisementInstead of working around nudity rules on social media, it doubled down and hired porn actress, Asa Akira, to demonstrate the products on its new website, Frida Uncovered.

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☆ Did Donald Trump fall asleep in court? Why the trial is posing challenges for reporters and the public
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Did Donald Trump fall asleep in court? As the first criminal trial of a former American president commenced Monday, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman delivered a stunning report from the Manhattan courtroom. “This is 100% Fake News coming from ‘journalists’ who weren’t even in the court room,” a Trump campaign spokesperson later insisted. The Trump campaign forcefully denying Haberman and other reporters’ accounts quickly created two versions of events for people at home to choose to believe: Trump or Haberman. One of the concerns has been that by welcoming the public into the courtroom, cases will transform into public spectacles, similar to the O.J.

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☆ Activists helped shut down an oil refinery after a series of explosions. The consequences weren’t what they expected
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Philadelphia CNN —Bilal Motley, utilities manager at a former Philadelphia oil refinery, was working the graveyard shift when a massive explosion broke out in the early morning hours of June 21, 2019. “This oil refinery was talked about and passed down through generations,” Sanders said. Rachael WarrinerPES is no longer functioning as a refining company, but Sunoco, whose subsidiary Evergreen owned the former PES site, did not respond to requests for comment. The PES refinery complex was the largest source of particulate air pollution in Philadelphia. Hilco Redevelopment PartnersBut UPenn’s Neises said given the scale and history of the property, Hilco will need to take its time to redevelop the area of redevelopment.

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CNN —Several journalists, including a CNN stringer, were injured in an attack on a refugee camp in central Gaza, amid mounting concerns about media workers being killed and injured while covering Israel’s military campaign. CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the attack and on allegations that journalists were targeted at the camp. Several journalists, including a CNN stringer, were injured in the attack on April 12. CNN footage shows a few other injured people brought into the hospital, including a number of journalists. Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has been the deadliest period for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began gathering data in 1992.

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☆ Hong Kong Detains and Expels Journalism Advocate, Group Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( David Pierson | More About David Pierson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A representative of Reporters Without Borders was denied entry to Hong Kong on Wednesday while attempting to enter the city on a fact-finding mission about shrinking press freedoms there, the organization said. Aleksandra Bielakowska, a Taipei-based advocacy officer for the group, said she had been detained for six hours at Hong Kong International Airport, where she was questioned and her belongings searched several times. She was later expelled without explanation. Reporters Without Borders, which is based in Paris and advocates on behalf of journalists around the world, said it was the first time one of its representatives had been denied entry or held in Hong Kong. “We are appalled by this unacceptable treatment of our colleague, who was simply trying to do her job,” Rebecca Vincent, director of campaigns for Reporters Without Borders, said in a statement.

Persons: Aleksandra Bielakowska, ” Rebecca Vincent Organizations: Borders, Wednesday, Hong Kong International Airport Locations: Hong Kong, Taipei, Paris

☆ Elon Musk’s reversal on blue checkmarks shows his desperation to lure high-profile users back to X
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —Elon Musk has given up, restoring the “lords and peasants” blue checkmark system he once admonished and assailed as elitism. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” Musk wrote in November 2022. But most journalists and other notable users who once sported the checkmark declined to fork over the cash. Even worse, trolls impersonating the identities of others were granted blue checkmarks, stripping the symbol of its core value: identity verification. A representative for X did not respond to a request for comment on Musk’s move to restore the blue checkmarks.

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☆ An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Cade Metz | Tiffany Hsu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers. But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington professor and founding chief executive of the Allen Institute for A.I., became one of the first researchers to warn that a new breed of A.I. And by the middle of last year, he said, he was distressed that A.I.-generated deepfakes would swing a major election. He founded a nonprofit, TrueMedia.org in January, hoping to fight that threat. The tools, available from the TrueMedia.org website to anyone approved by the nonprofit, are designed to detect fake and doctored images, audio and video.

Persons: Oren Etzioni, Etzioni Organizations: University of Washington, Allen Institute for A.I, TrueMedia.org

☆ Betty Cole Dukert, Top ‘Meet the Press’ Producer, Dies at 96
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-01 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top producer of the weekly NBC News public affairs program “Meet the Press,” died on March 16 at her home in Bethesda, Md. Her late husband’s niece Barbara Dukert Smith said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. “She was the main point of contact on Capitol Hill for the show,” said Betsy Fischer Martin, who started on “Meet the Press” as an intern and became the program’s executive producer in 2002. “She worked the phones constantly. It wasn’t an era when you could send off an email to book someone.”

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☆ Pouria Zeraati: ‘Brutal stabbing’ of exiled Iranian journalist prompts counterterrorism investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A prominent exiled Iranian journalist was stabbed outside his home in London on Friday, prompting British police to launch a counterterrorism investigation. Pouria Zeraati, a television anchor at the UK-based channel Iran International, was reportedly attacked by a group of men outside his home in south-western Wimbledon. Iran has designated the television station a “terrorist entity.” Iranian state media has repeatedly accused the channel of fomenting unrest. Zeraati’s stabbing comes after an investigation by Britain’s ITV last year revealed that Iranian spies had attempted to pay a people smuggler $200,000 to assassinate two Iran International journalists. Kearns noted on Twitter that Iran International had only recently returned to the air from London after having to shut down in the UK.

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☆ Evan Gershkovich has spent a year behind bars. The Wall Street Journal’s top editor hopes it will be his last
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Emma Tucker is hopeful that by next year Evan Gershkovich will be free. “But my expectation and sincere hope is that this time next year, he will not be imprisoned in Russia,” Tucker said. Tucker’s remarks come as Friday marks the one-year anniversary of Gershkovich being detained by the Vladimir Putin-led country. While Gershkovich sits in a Russian cell, his colleagues at The Journal have done everything in their power to keep his story alive in the press. “He knows that his mom and his dad are pouring over images of him … and I think he knows that.

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☆ Sexual violence ‘largely unpunished’ in Haiti, UN says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Mitchell Mccluskey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The UN human rights office described sexual violence in Haiti as “severely underreported and largely unpunished” in a harrowing report released Thursday that documented cases of rape and forced sexual relations with gang members, as well surging levels of gang violence in the country. The violence has caused the internal displacement of approximately 313,900 people as of December 2023, according to the OHCHR. “All these practices are outrageous and must stop at once,” said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. “Widespread corruption and dysfunction of the justice system greatly contribute to the pervasive impunity for grave human rights violations, and they need to be addressed urgently,” said Türk. Police patrol a street after authorities extended the state of emergency amid gang violence that has forced thousands to flee their homes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 8, 2024.

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☆ NBC News ousts Ronna McDaniel after network’s anchors launch unprecedented on-air rebellion
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Oliver Darcy | Jon Passantino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency that brokered McDaniel’s deal with NBC, also parted ways with her, the person said. McDaniel, who recently stepped down from the RNC under pressure from former President Donald Trump, was involved in attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. NBC’s announcement Friday that it had hired McDaniel was quickly met with alarm by the network’s journalists. Welker disclosed that the interview had been scheduled to take place prior to NBC announcing McDaniel would become a paid contributor for the network, stating that she had no involvement in her hiring. MSNBC president Rashida Jones also did not object to the decision, people familiar with the matter said.

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☆ Mike Johnson has frustrated the GOP in similar ways as Kevin McCarthy. But he's hanging on to his leadership role — for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson has been in his leadership role for less than six months. Still, he's already made the same political moves that led to former Rep. Kevin McCarthy's historic ousting in October 2023. But unlike McCarthy, Johnson appears to be hanging on — for now. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. AdvertisementThough she called it a warning, Greene said she intended to take the first steps in replacing Johnson from his leadership role.

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☆ NBC News faces a '5-alarm fire' from its own staff over the hiring of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some of the highest-profile journalists at NBC are pushing back against the network's hiring of Ronna McDaniel. Chief political analyst Chuck Todd on Sunday said many at NBC are "uncomfortable" with the McDaniel hire. On Monday, "Meet the Press" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said McDaniel wouldn't appear on their program. AdvertisementAfter NBC News announced that it had hired former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor late last week, the pushback from media critics was immediate. In a highly-unusual move, NBC News journalists including former "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd and "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski openly criticized the hiring of McDaniel.

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☆ Chuck Todd Assails His Network, NBC News, for Hiring Former R.N.C. Chair
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The veteran NBC anchor Chuck Todd publicly attacked the leadership of his own network on Sunday, questioning why NBC News hired Ronna McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, and declaring live on air, “There’s a reason why there are a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this.”Mr. Todd’s comments on “Meet the Press,” the flagship political show he anchored for nine years, were an extraordinary escalation of behind-the-scenes tensions simmering within NBC News and its cable cousin, MSNBC, since the announcement on Friday that Ms. McDaniel had been brought onboard as a political analyst. Some journalists at NBC were taken aback by the decision to hire Ms. McDaniel, citing her tenure at the R.N.C. under former President Donald J. Trump, when she regularly echoed Mr. Trump’s criticisms of the news media and, in particular, the left-leaning programs on MSNBC. Rashida Jones, the MSNBC president, called several prominent anchors over the weekend to assure them they would not be forced to book Ms. McDaniel on their shows, according to a person briefed on the conversations who requested anonymity to share details meant to be private.

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☆ Chuck Todd rips NBC News for hiring former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd delivered a stunning rebuke of NBC News on Sunday, blasting the network for hiring former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid political analyst. As RNC chair, McDaniel was a prominent election denier, working to help disgraced former President Donald Trump subvert the 2020 vote. Asked why she didn’t offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded, “When you’re the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. But Todd noted that because McDaniel was a paid network contributor, it was not clear whether she was being genuine. But Todd disagreed with NBC News’ decision, adding that McDaniel has “credibility issues.”Others on the Sunday broadcast panel agreed with Todd’s assessment.

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☆ Kim Mulkey: LSU coach rips Washington Post over unpublished ‘hit piece’ and threatens legal action
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Wayne Sterling | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Louisiana State University women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey ripped the Washington Post on Saturday over what she describes as a “hit piece” in which she has threatened legal action if published. “I’ve hired the best defamation law firm in the country, and I will sue the Washington Post if they publish a false story about me. A Washington Post spokesperson declined to comment on Mulkey’s remarks. “Former players have told me that the Washington Post has contacted them and offered to let them be anonymous in a story if they’ll say negative things about me. The Washington Post has called former disgruntled players to get negative quotes to include in their story.

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☆ Netanyahu’s response to Schumer widens rift in US-Israeli relations
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But the gulf in trust and goals between Israel and Hamas has thwarted hopes for a breakthrough for weeks. He’s opposing the people of Israel,” Netanyahu said. Despite a fearsome onslaught in Gaza, Hamas is far from defeated. Latest developments also raise the question of whether Schumer’s stinging criticism augurs a shift to more pressure on Netanyahu from Biden. We support Israel.

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☆ Israeli tank 'likely' opened fire on reporters with a heavy machine gun, says report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A UN investigation found that an Israeli tank deliberately targeted identifiable journalists. AdvertisementA UN inquiry found that an Israeli tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon on October 13, 2023. A second report commissioned by Reuters affirmed that the Israeli tank crew "likely" opened machine gun fire on the journalists. AdvertisementThe report states, "It is considered a likely scenario that a Merkava tank, after firing two tank rounds, also used its machine gun against the location of the journalists." While some journalists like Abdallah were directly targeted, many of the slain media professionals were killed during Israeli bombardments.

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☆ Family of slain Ukrainian reporter accuses Fox News of negligence by ignoring warnings to stay out of a war zone, according to new lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

In the lawsuit, Kuvshynova's family alleges that the book contains a "false account" of her death. Related storiesThe Fox News crew received multiple warnings to avoid Irpin, a town northwest of Kyiv, and the adjacent suburb of Hostomel, the lawsuit alleges. The crew found a different driver after their initial driver refused to go into the area, the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit alleges that Zakrzewski had a satellite phone that allowed him to stay in contact with Fox management. To this day, Fox News continues to withhold information about Kuvshynova's death, the lawsuit alleges.

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