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☆ As Broadway Rebounds, ‘Some Like It Hot’ Gets 13 Tony Nominations
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The nominations for “Ain’t No Mo’” were especially striking given that the show struggled to find an audience and closed early. “I’m just so elated, I can barely find the words,” said Cooper, who was nominated both as writer and actor. He is now 85 years old, and “Leopoldstadt” is his 19th production on Broadway. Stoppard said he was proud of the nomination, but sorry the play had come to seem so timely at a moment of rising concern about antisemitism. “Nobody wants society to be divided,” he said in an interview, “and I like to think ‘Leopoldstadt’ works against a sense of human beings dividing up and confronting each other.”

☆ Stephen Colbert Rues the Fox Settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Trial and ErrorDominion Voting Systems settled its defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Tuesday, with the conservative news network agreeing to pay $787.5 million to avoid a trial. “I want my trial!” Stephen Colbert bemoaned on Tuesday.

☆ A $787.5 Million Settlement and Embarrassing Disclosures: The Costs of Airing a Lie
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Jim Rutenberg | Katie Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In settling with Dominion Voting Systems, Fox News has avoided an excruciating, drawn-out trial in which its founding chief, Rupert Murdoch, its top managers and its biggest stars would have had to face hostile grilling on an embarrassing question: Why did they allow a virulent and defamatory conspiracy theory about the 2020 election to spread across the network when so many of them knew it to be false? But the $787.5 million settlement agreement — among the largest defamation settlements in history — and Fox’s courthouse statement recognizing that the court had found “certain claims about Dominion” aired on its programming “to be false” — at the very least amount to a rare, high-profile acknowledgment of informational wrongdoing by a powerhouse in conservative media and America’s most popular cable network. “Money is accountability,” Stephen Shackelford, a Dominion lawyer, said outside the courthouse, “and we got that today from Fox.”The terms of the agreement, which was abruptly announced just before lawyers were expected to make opening statements, did not require Fox to apologize for any wrongdoing in its own programming — a point that Dominion was said to have been pressing for.

☆ Crypto Companies Behind Tether Used Falsified Documents and Shell Companies to Get Bank Accounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Ben Foldy | Ada Hui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In late 2018, the companies behind the most widely traded cryptocurrency were struggling to maintain their access to the global banking system. Some of their backers turned to shadowy intermediaries, falsified documents and shell companies to get back in, documents show. One of those intermediaries, a major tether trader in China, was trying to “circumvent the banking system by providing fake sales invoices and contracts for each deposit and withdrawal,” Stephen Moore , one of the owners of Tether Holdings Ltd., said in an email viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

☆ Paul Silas, 3-time NBA champion, longtime coach, dies at 79
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Silas, whose son, Stephen Silas, is coach of the Houston Rockets, was 79. “We mourn the passing of former NBA All-Star and head coach Paul Silas,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “Paul’s lasting contributions to the game are seen through the many players and coaches he inspired, including his son, Rockets head coach Stephen Silas. “I coached LeBron for two years, his first two years, and LeBron was unbelievable,” Paul Silas said. “I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Creighton legend Paul Silas,” Bluejays coach Greg McDermott said.

Many users go to great lengths to secure their social media accounts — but one TikTok creator is showing people that their profiles aren’t as private as they seem. She responded with a stitched video — a video a TikTok creator combines another video on TikTok. His name wasn’t in his profile, and he uses different usernames across social media. Despite speculation by viewers that she pays for public records or uses computer programs to find people, she clarified that she uses only social media and Google. On Twitter, academics praised her for effectively illustrating gaps in social media privacy.

The SEC filed 760 enforcement actions in the year ending Sept. 30, up 9% from the year before, according to the agency’s annual enforcement report, which was made public Tuesday. The SEC imposed a total of $6.44 billion in monetary penalties, the highest amount on record and 67% above the previous year. That made it the second-highest year for both the number of awards and dollar amounts of awards issued, the SEC said. PREVIEWThe SEC whistleblower program in August reversed a Trump-era change that would have put a limit on the amount of awards it could provide. The SEC said it was focusing on actions that would deter future violations while encouraging accountability from major institutions.

☆ Indigenous Latino L.A. residents feel hurt, betrayed by racist remarks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

But the disparaging remarks still deeply hurt the city’s immigrants from Oaxaca, which has one of Mexico’s large indigenous populations. Both growing up in their homeland and after reaching the U.S., they say they’ve become accustomed to hearing such stinging comments — not only from non-Latinos but from lighter skinned Mexican immigrants and their descendants. Martinez used a disparaging term for the Black son of a white council member and called immigrants from Oaxaca ugly. Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest Mexican population and nearly half the city of 4 million people is Latino, census figures show. Informal studies indicate several hundred thousand Oaxacan immigrants live in California, with the largest concentration in Los Angeles, said Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, director of the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Mexican Studies.

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