Media Matters for America, a left-wing watchdog group, is mulling the purchase of Alex Jones’ InfoWars after a Texas judge ruled the outlet could be liquidated to pay the families of the victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a report. Texas and Connecticut courts ruled that conspiracy theorist Jones … Read more
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Monday that more interest rate cuts are in the pipeline, though their size and speed would depend on the evolution of the economy. Wall Street investors and economists are weighing whether the Fed will follow its larger-than-usual half-point cut made earlier this month with another hefty reduction … Read more
A McDonald’s in the United Kingdom missed signs of modern slavery for years while a human trafficking gang forced victims to work at the burger joint as well as a nearby bread factory, according to a report. Six members of a family-run gang from the Czech Republic have been convicted of forcing 16 victims to … Read more
The US economy is poised to lose billions of dollars a day starting Tuesday as a potentially crippling strike threatens nearly half of the nation’s busiest ports as longshoremen and management have failed to reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents some 85,000 dockworkers at ports along … Read more
Settlement checks related to Norfolk Southern’s disastrous 2023 derailment could be delayed up to two years now because an appeal of a federal judge’s decision last week to approve the $600 million deal has been filed, lawyers in the case said Monday. Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, expressed outrage online over the weekend about … Read more
NEW YORK — The union representing U.S. dockworkers signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts. The coming work stoppage threatens to significantly snarl the nation’s supply chain, potentially leading to higher prices and delays for … Read more
A growing number of Amazon employees are “rage applying” for other jobs in the wake of CEO Andy Jassy’s mandate to return to the office full-time at the start of the new year, according to a report. One Amazon worker who had become accustomed to working from home during her tenure at the company told … Read more
Verizon users across the country reported service outages Monday morning after the network experienced “an issue,” a company spokesperson told The Post. Downdetector.com – which provides real-time updates on Internet and phone services – experienced a spike in reports of Verizon outages around 10 a.m. There were more than 100,000 reported incidents at 11 a.m. … Read more
An accounting system used by Post Office sub-postmasters before the controversial Horizon software was introduced is likely to have also been faulty, an investigation has found. A report said “there was a reasonable likelihood” that the IT system, called Capture, could have created cash shortfalls in accounts. Capture was used in branches from 1992 to … Read more
DirecTV agreed to buy satellite rival Dish network Monday, ending decades of on-and-off talks in a deal that will create one of the country’s largest pay TV distributors with a combined 20 million subscribers. Dish, owned by EchoStar, has been weighed down with billions of dollars of debt and faced the prospect of a looming … Read more