State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office allegedly had a sleazy, toxic workplace culture that a “balloon penis” at an office party and smut cartoons shared by staffers, a newly surfaced sexual harassment suit showed. DiNapoli’s office quietly paid $350,000 to settle the suit from ex-staffer Evan Harris, a 16-year veteran who worked at the office on Maiden Lane and claimed supervisors and employees subjected him to sexual comments, and made inappropriate remarks about his girlfriend. The lawsuit, initially filed in Manhattan federal court in 2020, included a picture of a balloon shaped like a penis that appeared at an office retirement…
Good morning from Brussels. I’m Mared Gwyn. As an escalating conflict grips the Middle East following Saturday’s joint US and Israeli attacks on Iran and the ensuing Iranian retaliation, the EU is scrambling to assert its fading diplomatic clout as it calls for de-escalation and restraint. Crisis meetings of EU ambassadors and foreign ministers were held on Sunday, with a statement by foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas last night calling for “maximum restraint, protection of civilians and full respect of international law.” But major European powers simultaneously risk being indirectly dragged into the conflict after initially distancing themselves from any…
A mom has been convicted of stabbing her six-year-old son to death before setting her house alight, leaving his younger brother to die as the flames raged. Jennifer Marie Stately, 37, was convicted just two-and-a-half weeks into her trial on Feb. 26 over the March 15, 2024, deaths of her son Remi, and his sibling Tristan, five. She fatally stabbed Remi in the chest before using lighter fluid and gasoline to set three blazes around her Red Lake Nation, Minnesota, home, including at the exits, making it impossible for Tristan to escape. Stately felt the home was “demonized,” her defense…
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Harrison Ford looked back on his iconic career as he received the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award during the 2026 Actor Awards. The Shrinking star, 83, accepted the honor from with a moving speech during the Sunday, March 1, ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles. “I feel incredibly grateful for this kind of attention, but to be clear, I also am quite humbled. I’m in a room with actors, many of whom are here because they’ve been nominated to receive a prize for their amazing work, while I’m here to receive a prize for being alive,”…
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Updated March 2, 2026 — 4:50pm,first published 2:53pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAState school teachers have been told not to restart their computers after a software glitch locked them out of their own online learning materials and roll-call programs on Monday morning.The Department of Education would not say how many of Queensland’s 1266 state schools were affected, but a spokesperson said the issue was “intermittent”, affecting staff on an individual basis.“Schools are communicating…
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Competing for attention in today’s crowded media landscape requires more than catchy headlines. Readers consume news across numerous platforms and formats. Reuters’ Digital News Report notes that 36 % of global news consumers get news via Facebook, 30 % via YouTube, 19 % from Instagram or WhatsApp, 16 % from TikTok and 12 % from…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! After radical students overthrew Iran’s shah in 1979 and took hostages in the U.S. embassy, the Middle Eastern nation became a strident and blood-soaked adversary of what its new Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship has long called the “Great Satan.”Since then, Tehran has sponsored terrorism around the globe, including targeting the U.S. in multiple, high-profile instances. Former Reagan Justice Department Chief of Staff Mark Levin said Sunday there are at least 44 examples of Iran targeting Americans either directly or indirectly.”The Iranian-Nazi regime … [has] murdered more than 1,000 Americans [and] relentlessly pursued nuclear…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continue, current and former defense officials say that while a limited strike lasting several days is feasible, sustaining a broader confrontation — one involving potentially hundreds of incoming missiles — is far more complicated.The U.S. and Israel undertook a mission known as Operation Epic Fury, targeting Iranian leadership and military sites Saturday. Its duration is still unclear, but the campaign may go on for days, according to U.S. officials. Sustaining operations beyond the initial window presents a more complex challenge — one shaped by a…
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Bravo celebrity Caroline Stanbury is giving an update on the whereabouts and wellbeing of her family amid the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing missile strikes on Iran. “Thank you so much for all the amazing messages I am getting — I am currently in L.A, which is not ideal because my sons are in Dubai,” Stanbury, 49, shared in a video uploaded to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, March 1. “But they are safe and I feel very comfortable with where they are and they feel very comfortable. Obviously I would like to get back as soon as I can but…
