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A tech company employee who went viral for filming her firing and sharing it on TikTok says her video has brought a flood of support. “I don’t regret sharing that,” ex-Cloudflare employee Brittany Pietsch told The Wall Street Journal. “I have received so many messages of people telling me, ‘I wish I would have stood up for myself the way you did.’ ” Pietsch, 27 years old, shot to social-media fame last week with a 9-minute video of herself repeatedly asking two Cloudflare representatives why she was being let go, and why her manager wasn’t on the call. “To be...

NEWS Trump pardons former White House strategist Steve Bannon By Bruce GoldingJanuary 20, 2021 | 12:24am | Updated Enlarge Image US President Donald Trump (L) congratulating Senior Counselor to the President Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House. US President Donald Trump (L) congratulating Senior Counselor to the President Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House....Mr. President, don’t pardon Sheldon Silver President Trump on Tuesday night pardoned former top campaign aide and White House strategist Steve Bannon, who was arrested for an...

Fifty Januaries ago, under a pallid sun and amid bitter winds, John F. Kennedy swore the oath that every president had taken since 1789 and then delivered one of the most memorable inaugural addresses in the American canon. “We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom,” the 35th president began. After noting that “the world is very different now” from the world of the Framers because “man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life,” he announced that “the torch has been passed...

2 Executives, at Irish Bank and Airline, Resign Amid Scandals By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Published: May 30, 2004 DUBLIN, May 29 (Agence France-Presse) — Two of Ireland's top executives, the chairman of the national airline Aer Lingus and the chief executive of the Bank of Ireland, resigned Saturday as a result of separate bank scandals. Tom Mulcahy, the chairman of Aer Lingus, resigned in a letter to Seamus Brennan, the transport minister, after widely being named in the media on Saturday in connection with a tax-evasion scandal at Allied Irish Bank. Michael Soden, chief executive of Bank of Ireland, stepped down...