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A now-former Bloomberg News reporter was arrested when anti-Israel protesters took over Columbia University’s main library this month, according to law enforcement sources. Jason Kao, who also used to work at the New York Times, was charged with criminal trespass after NYPD officers entered Butler Library to regain control of the building on the elite Morningside Heights campus on May 7, sources confirmed Monday. Kao was given a desk appearance ticket following the arrest at Columbia. The graphics reporter is no longer employed by the financial news outlet, a Bloomberg spokesperson told The Post Monday. The spokesperson declined to…
Netflix has thrown “Sesame Street” a safety net with a new streaming deal that offers the popular children’s staple a broad reach while keeping it on its long-standing home, PBS, at the same time, the companies announced Monday. Starting later this year, new episodes will run on Netflix, PBS and the PBS Kids app on the same day. No specific premiere date was immediately announced. Select past episodes will be available on Netflix worldwide. The change for the more than 50-year-old show comes after Warner Bros. Discovery — which had aired the show since 2016 — last year decided not to renew its deal for new…
The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it was approving Verizon Communications’s $20 billion deal to acquire fiber-optic internet providers Frontier Communications after the largest US telecom company agreed to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Verizon agreed to buy Frontier in September for about $9.6 billion and absorb $10 billion in Frontier debt. Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said “by approving this deal, the FCC ensures that Americans will benefit from a series of good and common-sense wins. The transaction will unleash billions of dollars in new infrastructure builds in communities across the country.” In February, Carr said he was opening a…
HBO host Bill Maher urged Americans to “get over the fantasy” that they are people of “core convictions and deeply held beliefs” on an episode of “Real Time” Friday night. Maher criticized Americans for flip-flopping on their beliefs, saying they base their values on what’s popular with their political party. “They only care which side is saying something,” he said, citing electric vehicles (EVs) as an example. “This car used to be ‘fire.’ Now it’s on fire,” Maher said while showing footage of Teslas being burned at a dealership. “Back when Elon Musk was presumed liberal, liberals loved electric cars…
Former first lady Michelle Obama expressed the importance of parents “extending the leash” by letting kids take risks and fail. In the latest episode of her “IMO” podcast on Wednesday, Obama spoke about wanting her daughters to have confidence and independence while acknowledging that they can only learn those traits through trial and error. “I think a lot of parents are afraid of watching that failure,” she said. “It is the hardest thing to do to watch your kids walk into a wall that you knew was there. And you told them not to walk into it. Until they hit…
Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke told the “Pod Save America” podcast on Thursday that former President Joe Biden “failed this country” by seeking re-election, which he believes contributed to current President Donald Trump’s return to the presidency in 2024. O’Rourke argued that Biden should not have sought a second term and slammed the former president for trying to “sell” the public on the idea that he was the only candidate capable of defeating Trump. “It’s not just you and me, but our kids and grandkids and the generations that follow that might have to pay the price for this,” he…
YouTube launched a new weekly chart of the most-watched podcasts on its platform as the Alphabet-owned company ramps up competition with Spotify and Apple in the rapidly evolving audio market. “The Joe Rogan Experience” topped the debut of the Weekly Top Podcast Shows Chart, which ranks US podcasts based on total watch time, followed by “Kill Tony” and “Rotten Mango.” “Kill Tony” is a live comedy podcast hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe. In October, Hinchcliffe faced significant backlash after making controversial remarks at a Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden during which he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating…
White House communications director Steven Cheung tore into a reporter from HuffPost who asked why transcripts for most of the president’s public remarks are not available on the White House website. “You must be truly f–king stupid if you think we’re not transparent,” Cheung bellowed at White House reporter S.V. Date. “The president regularly does multiple press engagements per day and they are streamed live on multiple platforms.” Cheung then mocked Date’s left-leaning employer, adding: “We’ve even granted low-level outlets like HuffPo [sic] additional access to events, because we’re so transparent. For anyone to think otherwise proves they are suffering…
The award-winning DC-based anchor who went viral on Thanksgiving for a cringeworthy news segment finally revealed this week he was boozed up on air — and didn’t even realize how shaky he was. Now-former NBC4 Washington journalist Leon Harris addressed the uncomfortable moment in which he struggled mightily while delivering the news, including stumbling over words and hesitating awkwardly. He said he had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner within four hours between shows, but that was enough to put him off kilter. “I ended drinking in between shows and then went on the air and I was…
CNN will be launching a new streaming product this fall, roughly three years after its expensive and short-lived CNN+ streaming service was shut down just one month after its launch. CNN CEO Mark Thompson made the announcement during a meeting with staff on Tuesday, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the news. CNN said the new streaming product will expand on its existing digital subscription service for customers, which currently gives paid subscribers unlimited access to articles on CNN’s website and exclusive content. In a press release, CNN said the new service will give customers a…
CNN’s Jake Tapper has been blasted as a “hypocrite” for trying to “rewrite history” and profit off former President Joe Biden’s mental decline with his new bombshell book — despite the lefty anchor staunchly defending him while he was still in the White House. Troubling accounts of Biden’s physical and mental decline — as well as apparent efforts to cover it up — started emerging Tuesday when snippets of Tapper’s forthcoming book “Original Sin” were made public.The backlash against Tapper, who co-wrote the book with Axios’ Alex Thompson, was swift on social media — with critics immediately ripping the CNN…
Children’s YouTube star “Ms. Rachel” appeared on anti-Israel journalist Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo news Monday to explain why she has been so outspoken about Israel’s war against Hamas. Rachel Griffin Accurso, who goes by “Ms. Rachel” on her popular YouTube channel, which has 14.7 million subscribers, has shared several posts about the war’s effects on Palestinian children. “Over 14,000 precious children have been un-alived in Gaza. Gaza has the largest number of child amputees in history. We can’t be silent about these kinds of conditions for children,” Accurso posted to her TikTok channel in Dec. 2024, echoing the Hamas-run Gaza health…