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Aug
11
2021
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By Troy Warren
Amazon’s MGM Takeover: Labor Coalition Lobbies FTC to Halt Deal (Exclusive)

Amazon’s MGM Takeover: Labor Coalition Lobbies FTC to Halt Deal (Exclusive)

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BY ALEX WEPRIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Business #EditorsPicks #Entertainment The Strategic Organizing Center, which includes the Teamsters and CWA, sent a letter to the agency over the $8.45 billion studio acquisition, saying it would create "harmful vertical integration in the film industry at large." As the Federal Trade Commission examines Amazon’s proposed $8.45 billion buy of MGM, pressure from unions and progressive politicians is mounting on the regulator to take action, either by blocking the deal or requiring the company to abide by conditions such as decoupling Amazon Prime Video from the rest of Prime to secure approval. The latest…
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Aug
11
2021
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By Troy Warren
CNN’s Next Chris Cuomo Headache May Depend On Testimony to N.Y.’s Attorney General

CNN’s Next Chris Cuomo Headache May Depend On Testimony to N.Y.’s Attorney General

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BY ALEX WEPRIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks While the network was lucky that Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned during his brother's week off, if the CNN host's testimony contained anything that painted himself, or CNN, in a particularly negative light, it could be a cause for alarm. For the first time since last summer, when he was riding a wave of plaudits for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the top story during CNN’s 9 pm hour was about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Gov. Cuomo’s resignation, spurred on by a report by New York Attorney General Letitia James that detailed accounts…
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Aug
09
2021
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By Troy Warren
Black principal told to remove Facebook photo of him kissing white wife

Black principal told to remove Facebook photo of him kissing white wife

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By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks A Black high school principal from Texas was ordered by district administrators to remove a photo from Facebook that showed him kissing his white wife to avoid stirring up more controversy among parents who complained. Colleyville Heritage High School Principal Dr. James Whitfield revealed in a Facebook post that the incident happened in 2019 after he was named principal of Colleyville Heritage Middle School, according to news station KXAS, the NBC affiliate in Fort Worth. A Grapevine-Colleyville school district official reportedly sent an email to Whitfield containing an intimate photo of…
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Aug
08
2021
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By Troy Warren
Want to pretend to live on Mars? For a whole year? Apply now

Want to pretend to live on Mars? For a whole year? Apply now

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By BY SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Lifestyle #EditorsPicks Help wanted: NASA is looking for people to spend year pretending they are isolated on Mars Want to find your inner Matt Damon and spend a year pretending you are isolated on Mars? NASA has a job for you. To prepare for eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA began taking applications Friday for four people to live for a year in Mars Dune Alpha. That's a 1,700-square-foot Martian habitat, created by a 3D-printer, and inside a building at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian…
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Aug
08
2021
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By Troy Warren
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, rock journalist, dies at 75

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, rock journalist, dies at 75

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By Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Music Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who wrote about rock when music journalists were just beginning to take it seriously, and through her work met Jim Morrison, frontman of the Doors, with whom she said she had a marriage of sorts, died July 23. She was 75. Her death was announced on the Facebook page of Lizard Queen Press, a publishing enterprise that she founded and that published her recent books. The announcement did not give a cause or say where she died. In the late 1960s, originally as Patricia Kennely (she…
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Aug
08
2021
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As Lake Powell dips to historic low, tourists, businesses and government scrambling

As Lake Powell dips to historic low, tourists, businesses and government scrambling

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Sophia Eppolito | Associated Press/Report for America Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Lifestyle   A thick, white band of newly exposed rock face stretches high above boaters' heads at Lake Powell, creating a sharp contrast against the famous red desert terrain as their vessels weave through tight canyons that were once underwater. It's a stark reminder of how far the water level has fallen at the massive reservoir on the Utah-Arizona border near Page. Just last year, it was more than 50 feet higher. Now, the level at the popular destination for houseboat vacations is at a historic low amid a climate…
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Aug
07
2021
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By Troy Warren
Don’t let your TV tip over. Here’s how to secure it to the wall

Don’t let your TV tip over. Here’s how to secure it to the wall

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Geoffrey Morrison | CNET.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Technology More injuries than you would expect come from TV- and furniture-related accidents. Here's how to prevent them from happening to you and your family. If a TV falls on you, you'd probably be OK. If it fell on your foot, maybe less so. If it falls on a toddler or small pet, it could cause serious injury. This happens more than you might think. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 25,500 people are injured each year in TV- and furniture-related incidents, with hundreds of deaths. And it's not just kids getting hurt, either.…
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Aug
07
2021
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Man jailed for more than 2 years in case of mistaken identity

Man jailed for more than 2 years in case of mistaken identity

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By Alyssa Lukpat, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT #editorspicks The long ordeal of Joshua Spriestersbach, a homeless man in Hawaii, began May 11, 2017, when a Honolulu police officer woke him up and arrested him. He had fallen asleep as he waited in line to enter a shelter for food, but instead, he was sent to a jail on Oahu for a crime he did not commit, according to a petition his lawyer filed this week seeking to clear his record. The police officer thought that Spriestersbach, now 50, looked like Thomas Castleberry, who was wanted on charges…
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Aug
06
2021
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By Troy Warren
Mattel honors front-line medical workers with Barbie dolls

Mattel honors front-line medical workers with Barbie dolls

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By Nancy Clanton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #business #editorspicks #covid-19 The dolls are based on six women ‘who are modern real-life heroes of the pandemic’ You know how your kid loves to play “professor of vaccinology,” but you’ve never been able to find a Barbie with that career? Well, now you can. Mattel is honoring six real women “who are modern real-life heroes of the pandemic” with their very own Barbie dolls, the company said in a press release. “Barbie recognizes that all front-line workers have made tremendous sacrifices when confronting the pandemic and the challenges it heightened,” said…
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Aug
05
2021
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Library book returned after 50 years with $20 bill

Library book returned after 50 years with $20 bill

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT PLYMOUTH, Pa. — A book checked out a half-century ago has been anonymously returned to a library in northeastern Pennsylvania, officials said. The Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice reported that the 1967 copy of “Coins You Can Collect” by Burton Hobson arrived last month at the Plymouth Public Library in Luzerne County along with a $20 bill. An accompanying unsigned letter, written as if by the book itself, said “Fifty years ago (yes 50!), a little girl checked me out of this library in 1971. At this time, she didn't know they were going to move from…
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