Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove kept some ties with Gov. Tim Walz’s administration after he stepped down as the economic development commissioner for the newspaper’s top job, according to texts first obtained and reported by the Minnesota Reformer. Grove took over at the Star Tribune on April 17, 2023, after four years leading the state’s […]
Being a woman in the workplace means, more than likely, you’ve experienced harassment or gender discrimination at work. So we asked the women of the BuzzFeed Community to share the time their male boss or colleague said something unbelievably inappropriate or sexist to them. Here’s what they had to say: 1.“When working as a member […]
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) is calling it quits on his marriage of 12 years, filing for divorce from his oncologist wife earlier this month even as Capitol Hill insiders report seeing him cozy up to another Republican lawmaker. A petition for divorce was filed by McCormick on May 3, according to Gwinnett County court records. […]
Fox Business Network anchor Charles Payne blew a gasket on Wednesday when a liberal pundit attempted to defend President Joe Biden’s gaffes, calling his on-air colleague’s comments “dumb” and “insulting.” During the Fox News midday panel show Outnumbered, Payne blasted the president for repeating his oft-told false claim that he had previously driven an 18-wheel […]
A Tennessee teacher has been arrested after she allegedly threatened to shoot a colleague in the preschool at which she worked, police said. Sheneca Cowart was charged with assault, threat of mass violence at a school and two counts of carrying a weapon onto school property following the Thursday incident at The Academy of McCrory […]
The UK Labour Party’s deputy leader Angela Rayner will focus on facts rather than “gossip” in the ongoing row over her living arrangements, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said. It comes after The Sunday Times reported that her former aide said there was “no doubt in my mind that this was Ms Rayner’s family home” […]
A Nebraska lawmaker who invoked the name of a colleague while reading a graphic account of rape on the floor of the Legislature violated the body’s workforce sexual harassment policy, an outside investigator found, leading the body’s governing board to issue Republican state Sen. Steve Halloran a letter of reprimand. But that announcement Wednesday by […]
Fox News contributor Leo Terrell lost his mind on Thursday when network pundit Jessica Tarlov invoked her Jewish-American heritage during a discussion about Israel and President Joe Biden, prompting an angry Terrell to seemingly accuse her of playing the race card. “Don’t do that!” Terrell yelled, adding: “You’re a big-time Democrat!” Tarlov, who is used […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today it would bar Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim for allegedly improperly trading based on information he learned from a longtime business contact while he was bound by a non-disclosure agreement. Bechtolsheim, 68, whose net worth is estimated to be around $18 billion, allegedly […]
A Republican Nebraska lawmaker who stirred a firestorm of controversy by repeatedly name-checking a fellow senator while reading a graphic account of rape from a best-selling memoir on the floor of the Legislature is now under investigation for sexual harassment. The investigation into state Sen. Steve Halloran of Hastings by the Legislature’s Executive Board was […]
One of the lawyers prosecuting Donald Trump for trying to overturn his election defeat in Georgia testified on Tuesday about his personal relationship with the lead prosecutor, a liaison the former US president and his allies allege has tainted the case. The lawyer, Nathan Wade, took the witness stand during a hearing in a state […]
A golf professional at a country club has won an unfair dismissal case after he was wrongly accused of telling a junior female colleague “you smell so good I could lick you all over”. Mark Sturgess was sacked from his job at Cambridge Country Club in June 2022 after he was alleged to have made […]