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Read More »Les Moonves, Fired by CBS, Sets Up Shop in Hollywood
Just months after being fired by CBS, Leslie Moonves is running a new company. And though Mr. Moonves and his former employer are locked in a dispute over $120 million in severance, CBS is paying for the office space that Mr. Moonves now occupies. The company, Moon Rise Unlimited, operates …
Read More »Is It Possible For Solar Energy To Compete With Coal-Fired Electricity In China?
Photovoltaic and modern urban night scenes, Beijing, China.Getty China’s energy policies may, at first, seem paradoxical: it is shooting for the stars and it is working to have renewable energy start replacing coal-fired electricity. That’s a hard task in a country where coal is now 60% of its electricity base …
Read More »De Blasio Aide Who Was Forced Out Had Been Fired Over Sexual Harassment Before
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] When Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged this month that his administration had kept secret that a former chief of staff was forced to resign after two women accused him of sexual harassment, the mayor …
Read More »A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was Fired.
Smoke blinded the security guards inside a warehouse at a nuclear weapons facility in Nevada. Clangs and shouts filled the air. Amid the din, a guard named Jennifer Glover was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and hit across the face with the butt of a gun. One man ran his …
Read More »Meteorologist Fired After Uproar Over Apparent MLK Jr. Slur On Air
A chief meteorologist for a New York TV station has been fired after he was accused of making a racial slur on air while referencing Martin Luther King Jr., which he insists was not intentional. Jeremy Kappell was delivering a forecast on Friday for WHEC-TV in Rochester when he referenced …
Read More »Teacher fired for dragging 9-year-old boy with autism through hallways
A Kentucky school teacher was seen in a video posted to Facebook pulling a boy out of a classroom and down hallways by his wrist. She has since been fired. Do you like what you see? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh Like USA TODAY on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usatoday Follow USA …
Read More »New York meteorologist fired after saying racial slur on air
WHEC meteorologist Jeremy Kappell was fired after it appeared he used a racial slur during his forecast. During a weather forecast on Friday which showed a live shot of the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, Jeremy Kappell appeared to refer to it as “Martin Luther Coon King Jr. …
Read More »Gregg Renfrew of Beautycounter on Toxic Chemicals and Getting Fired by Messenger
So what happened at Best & Company? Susie flat out fired me by messenger in front of my entire team when I was C.E.O. in the fall of 2006. The messenger came and said, “Are you Gregg Renfrew?” And I opened up this package, and it said: “You’re fired. You’re …
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