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Papa John?s founder slices up ad firm?s $6M ?extort? attempt

Oct 31, 2020 1:55 am

Papa John?s founder John Schnatter has claimed his spectacular ouster from the pizza chain last year was orchestrated by an advertising firm that was trying to extort $6 million from him ? and now he ...

US judge blocks TikTok ban, calls security threat ?hypothetical?

Oct 30, 2020 10:39 pm

TikTok got yet another reprieve on Friday after a federal judge blocked a Trump administration ban which would have effectively shut down the Chinese-owned app in the US on Nov. 12. The Pennsylvania j...

Counterfeit Juul e-cigarette manufacturer busted in China

Oct 30, 2020 8:58 pm

Juul Labs helped Chinese authorities take down a manufacturer that allegedly ripped off its vapes and sold the fakes overseas, the company said Friday. The operation was one of the largest ever broken...

Jittery Wall Street banks brace for election-fueled uncertainty

Oct 30, 2020 7:29 pm

Large Wall Street banks have been running “war game” drills in their trading businesses and preparing clients for unexpected scenarios around next week’s elections, hopin...

Sony reportedly buying anime streaming platform Crunchyroll for nearly $1B

Oct 30, 2020 5:24 pm

Sony, the Tokyo-based electronics and entertainment giant, is reportedly closing in on a deal to buy anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, for nearly $1 billion. Sony could end up spending more than $...

Facebook?s Oculus Quest 2 was preordered five times more than predecessor

Oct 30, 2020 4:59 pm

Facebook’s virtual reality ambitions are finally catching on with consumers. The company’s latest VR headset, the Oculus Quest 2, has received five times as many preorders as its 2...

Scaled-back Thanksgiving plans leave turkey farmers in limbo

Oct 30, 2020 4:34 pm

For the turkey industry, this Thanksgiving is a guessing game. Millions of Americans are expected to have scaled-down celebrations amid the pandemic, heeding official warnings against travel and large...

2 more ex-eBay employees admit to roles in harassment scheme

Oct 30, 2020 4:29 pm

Two more former eBay employees have admitted to their roles in a campaign to terrorize a Massachusetts couple with threatening social media messages and disturbing deliveries of things like live spide...

Ex-Wirecard executive was reportedly an Austrian spy informant

Oct 30, 2020 4:21 pm

An ex-Wirecard executive who went on the lam amid the German payment firm’s $2 billion accounting scandal was reportedly a mole for Austrian spies. German authorities have evidence that Jan ...

Quibi rival demands asset freeze in patent-infringement claim

Oct 30, 2020 4:02 pm

Eko -- a tech startup that has accused Jeffrey Katzenberg's ill-fated video-streaming app Quibi of infringing on its patented technology -- is asking the court to freeze Quibi's assets.

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Sacramento conjoined twins by head separated successfully

Oct 31, 2020 5:34 am

Sacramento twin girls who were born conjoined at the head were successfully separated in an extensive, day-long surgical procedure Friday. Nine-month-old Abigail and Micaela Bachinskiy underwent a 24-...

Massive Florida mail pile-up believed to include ballots

Oct 31, 2020 5:26 am

A Post Office in Florida?s largest county is inundated with a mail backlog, which could reportedly contain ballots. The Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, Kionne Mcghee, posted u...

Philippines orders evacuation as the strongest typhoon of 2020 approaches

Oct 31, 2020 4:04 am

MANILA – Philippine officials on Saturday ordered an evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island as a category 5 storm that is the world?s strongest th...

US breaks COVID-19 case record for third straight day

Oct 31, 2020 2:05 am

The number of new U.S. COVID-19 cases continued to break records for the third day straight on Friday, when more than 100,000 infections were reported, according to Reuters. That number tops Thursday&...

The Post?s Twitter account gained about 190,000 followers during blackout

Oct 30, 2020 11:15 pm

The Post gained about 190,000 Twitter followers while it was locked out of its primary account by the social media giant, data shows. That number represents a 10.6 percent increase in just about two w...

How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post?s account

Oct 30, 2020 10:00 pm

Man in alleged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot wanted to ?hang? Trump, Obama, Clintons

Oct 30, 2020 9:40 pm

One of the men charged in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer previously made threatening online comments about wanting to ?hang? President Trump and his predecessors Barack Obam...

Elon Musk?s SpaceX colony on Mars won?t follow Earth-based laws

Oct 30, 2020 9:31 pm

The laws on Mars could be a little spacey. Elon Musk?s planned colony on the Red Planet will not be ruled by any “Earth-based government” ? and will instead adhere to its own ?self...

Joe Biden muddles middle-class tax policy, slams nation?s ?trillionaires?

Oct 30, 2020 8:49 pm

During a 25-minute stump speech in Des Moines, Iowa, the Democratic nominee repeated his campaign pledge that Americans earning less than $400,000 a year would not see their taxes raised if elected.

Philly cops took black toddler from SUV, claimed he was ?lost? in Facebook post: report

Oct 30, 2020 8:32 pm

A police union allegedly lied in a pro-cop Facebook that a ?lost? black toddler was rescued by Philadelphia cops ? when officers had actually smashed in his mother?s SUV and grabbed him during an arre...

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