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Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execs
Aurich Lawson Elon Musk completed the $44 billion purchase of Twitter today, capping a months-long saga that resulted in Twitter suing Musk to force him to honor their merger agreement. Musk’s first course of business was to fire top executives. “Musk fired Chief Executive Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal after the deal …
Ohio health department fires employee for mention of abortion pill in newsletter
Placeholder while article actions load When she came across a training opportunity for mifepristone, a drug used in early pregnancy loss and abortions, Jessica Warner put a mention of it in the May edition of the newsletter she compiled as a coordinator at the Ohio Department of Health. An hour after she hit send, her …
Brush fires break out along 118 Fwy in San Fernando Valley
by: Cameron Kiszla, Gil Leyvas, with reporting by Elizabeth Chapman Posted: May 13, 2022 / 09:14 PM PDT Updated: May 13, 2022 / 10:14 PM PDT A pair of brush fires burned alongside the 118 Freeway in Granada Hills and Porter Ranch Friday night. Reports of fire first surfaced at 8:45 p.m., with one near …
Wildfire, climate change push toxic chemicals into drinking wells
PORTLAND — Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires in Oregon’s history by sheltering overnight in a river with a patio chair. So there was never any question that Myron would rebuild his home in Oregon’s Santiam Canyon after the house was destroyed in the Labor …
California Braces for Record-Breaking Heat Wave as Four Fires Already Rage in State
California is bracing for its first major heat wave of the year as four fires are already raging in the Golden State. Temperatures could reach 106 to 112 degrees in Antelope Valley in northern Los Angeles County, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). The heat advisory for the area remains in effect from Tuesday …
Fresno City Fire Department bracing for record-breaking year of fires
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — There have been more than 600 fires in the city of Fresno this month alone, and crews are worried the worst is yet to come. “We are on track right now to break every record we’ve ever set for fire calls in the city of Fresno,” said Shane Brown, spokesperson for …
Protesters defy curfew in Old Montreal, setting fires, breaking windows
Demonstrators lit fires and shouted slogans in Old Montreal Sunday evening in defiance of a new 8 p.m.curfew that went into effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19 cases. A large crowd blocked off a street near Montreal’s Place Jacques-Cartier. Some lit fires in garbage cans, while others set off fireworks and chanted slogans deriding Premier François Legault and demanding more freedom. Garbage fires …
California’s Pacific Gas & Electric charged in 2019 wildfire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California prosecutor filed 33 criminal charges Tuesday accusing troubled Pacific Gas & Electric of inadvertently injuring six firefighters and endangering public health with smoke and ash in a 2019 fire blamed on its equipment. The nation’s largest utility denied that it committed any crimes even as it accepted that its …
Inmates Riot At St. Louis Jail, Setting Fires And Breaking Windows : NPR
For the second time this year, inmates at a jail in downtown St. Louis broke into a small riot. On Sunday, videos and other pictures shared on social media showed inmates of the St. Louis Justice Center hanging outside of the broken windows of their cells. The men threw chairs and other objects to onlookers …
Turkey’s lira plunges after Erdogan fires central bank head
The currency was trading Monday at around 8.12 per US dollar, weakening about 12% from Friday. It had slipped even further against the greenback earlier in the morning. The lira’s fall came after Erdogan dismissed Turkish central bank governor Naci Agbal by way of presidential decree early Saturday. Agbal had served less than five months …
