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Facebook parent Meta reportedly planning new round of job cuts
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Meta Platforms' business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo
world
Bloomberg has no interest in acquiring Dow Jones or Washington Post, spokesman says
FILE PHOTO: Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg speaks with participants prior to a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS
international business
Media mogul Michael Bloomberg reportedly interested in buying either Dow Jones or Washington Post
FILE PHOTO: Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg speaks with participants prior to a meeting with Earthshot prize winners and finalists at the Glasgow Science Center during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. Alastair Grant/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING ID/File Photo
golf
One golfer not welcome at the British Open? Greg Norman
Greg Norman, CEO of LIV Golf, tosses a beer to spectators into the crowd surrounding the 18th green at the Portland Invitational LIV Golf tournament in North Plains, Ore., Saturday, July 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Dipaola)
world
Washington Post fires Felicia Sonmez, reporter at centre of social media policy battle
FILE - People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, in downtown Washington on Feb. 21, 2019. The Washington Post has fired reporter Felicia Sonmez, who has triggered a vigorous online debate this past week over social media policy and public treatment of colleagues. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
world
Court tosses Washington Post journalist’s discrimination lawsuit
FILE - People walk by the One Franklin Square Building, home of The Washington Post newspaper, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 in Washington. A D.C. judge has dismissed Washington Post politics reporter Felicia Sonmez's suit against the newspaper, saying it did not discriminate against her as a woman or victim of sexual assault in Thursday, March 24, 2022 ruling. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
u.s. business
Veteran CBS News correspondent Roger Mudd dies at 93
FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2001, file photo, veteran journalist Roger Mudd tapes a segment for the History Channel at CBS studios in New York. Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, died Tuesday, March 9, 2021. He was 93. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
politics
Former Saudi spy chief says Crown Prince believes he is the CIA’s source on murder of Jamal Khashoggi
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 24, 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiative FII conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh. - A decade on, the turmoil of the Arab Spring which shook the oil-rich Gulf states has left a very different legacy, emboldening and empowering their conservative monarchies. The collapse or decline of traditional Middle East powers like Syria and Egypt has allowed the region to establish itself as the region's new centre of gravity. And the Gulf has seized the initiative, accelerating the transformation of their societies, building futuristic metropolises, and breaking conventions with diplomatic initiatives including establishing ties with Israel. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)
obituary
Maxine Cheshire, who chronicled Beltway Scandals, dies at 90
public editor
Let’s focus on news, facts not conspiracies
Sylvia Stead
world
Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron to retire at the end of February
FILE - Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron appears in the news room after winning two Pulitzer Prizes in Washington on April 16, 2018. Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post and one of the nation's top journalists, says he will retire at the end of February. He took over the Post's newsroom in 2012 after editing the Boston Globe and Miami Herald before that. He was portrayed in the 2015 movie “Spotlight” about the Globe's investigation of the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
opinion
Conservative critics are Trump’s fiercest adversaries
Ian Buruma
world
Pompeo warns China over interference with U.S. journalists in Hong Kong
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a media briefing at the State Department in Washington, U.S., May 6, 2020.
world
Turkish prosecutors file indictment against 20 Saudi nationals over 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a news conference in Manama, Bahrain, in a Dec. 15, 2014 file photo.
world
China to revoke media credentials of all American journalists at three U.S. newspapers
Chinese and U.S. national flags flutter at the entrance of an office building in Beijing, in a Jan. 18, 2020, file photo.
u.s. politics
Trump campaign sues Washington Post over opinion pieces, after suing New York Times
FILE - People work inside The Washington Post's newsroom in Washington, May 18, 2017. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign sued The Washington Post for libel on March 3, 2020, citing two opinion articles from 2019 that linked Trump to Russian election interference.
technology
Jeff Bezos to retain 75 per cent of couple’s Amazon stake after divorce
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, in Beverly Hills, Calif., on March 4, 2018.