A homebound resident in the Bronx receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine. A new initiative is pushing for federally funded family and medical leave, and affordable child care and elder care.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
JPMorgan Chase, Spotify, Uber, McDonald’s and almost 200 other businesses have formed a coalition focused on ensuring that women are not held back in the labor force because they bear the brunt of caregiving in the United States.
The new Care Economy Business Council, the creation of which was announced on Wednesday, portrays the effort in stark economic terms, arguing that fixing the crumbling child and elder care systems is essential to the economic recovery.
Fox Responds to Suit Saying It Was Only Reporting News on Trump Election Fraud Claims
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(Bloomberg) Fox News Network says it was only performing its constitutionally-protected job of reporting the news when it repeated spurious election fraud claims by former President Donald Trump.On that basis, the media giant asked a court Tuesday to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by one of the targets of Trumpâs phony claims, Dominion Voting Systems.The Denver-based company filed suit in March, alleging that Fox .
(Bloomberg) Fox News Network says it was only performing its constitutionally-protected job of reporting the news when it repeated spurious election fraud claims by former President Donald Trump.
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Wall Street and corporate America have finally bought into Bitcoin, just in time for one of the ugly crashes the cryptocurrency regularly experiences.
Stocks slumped for a third day as a bust in the world of crypto â until recently considered a side show to actual financial activity â bled into the broader markets and hammered shares closely linked to the difficult-to-define digital assets.
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The news firm says it reported what others were saying about the presidential election.
While the news operation differed, the company’s top opinion personalities were chief purveyors of the conspiracy theories involving Dominion and others about irregularities in the results of the November election alleged by President Donald Trump.
The motion to dismiss filed in Delaware Superior Court states: “A free press must be able to report both sides of a story involving claims striking at the core of our democracy especially when those claims prompt numerous lawsuits, government investigations, and election recounts.
“When a sitting President of the United States and his legal team challenge a presidential election in litigation throughout the nation, the media can truthfully report and comment on those allegations under the First Amendment without fear of liability. Plaintiffs’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News threatens to stifle the media’s free-speech right to inform the
Fox News claims First Amendment protection in lawsuit by Denver s Dominion Voting Systems
The outlet claims the defamation lawsuit threatens to stifle the media’s free-speech right to inform the public about newsworthy allegations. Author: Colorado Politics Updated: 2:26 PM MDT May 19, 2021
DENVER Fox News is hoping to bounce the defamation lawsuit filed by Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems on the grounds of constitutional free speech, the company told the courts Monday.
The news company says it was only reporting what others were saying about the presidential election.
While the news operation differed, the company s top opinion personalities were chief purveyors of the conspiracy theories involving Dominion and others.