WLOX anchor David "Dave" Elliott said he was fired Friday morning because of his political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. "I'm no longer at WLOX as of 10-25-24," Elliott wrote on his Facebook page. "The corporation doesn't like my political views." The view in question was expressed on X in a video that...

WLS anchor Judy Hsu is OK after she was hit by a foul ball during batting practice before the game first game of the professional men's baseball World Series game between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Chicago ABC owned station said Hsu "is okay and was checked out by a...

On Friday, The Washington Post's publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for president--after its journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the paper's owner. (CJR) "We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates," Lewis wrote...

Nika Soon-Shiong, the outspoken pro-Palestinian activist daughter of Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, defended the paper's non-endorsement of a presidential candidate Friday, saying in an X thread that "genocide is the line in the sand" and suggesting that Harris is "a candidate that is overseeing a war on children." (TheWrap) "Our family made the...

Venom: The Last Dance is No. 1 at the box office, but the comic book film fell significantly short of expectations. The third and final entry in Sony's Marvel antihero series, led by Tom Hardy, opened to a muted $51 million from 4,125 North American theaters. (Variety) That's well behind an expected $65 million, or...

An Israeli airstrike killed at least three journalists as they slept in their accommodation in southern Lebanon, in what news outlets say was a direct hit on an area removed from the continuing conflict between the Israeli military and Hezbollah. (Al Jazeera) The attack was carried out on a guesthouse in a compound in Hasbaya...

Meta struck a multiyear deal with Reuters to use its news content to provide real-time answers to user queries about news and current events in its Meta AI chatbot, sources familiar with the agreement told Axios. (Axios) The pair have not disclosed whether Meta will get access to Reuters' library to train its learning language...

The Los Angeles Dodgers' dramatic 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in game one of the World Series Friday night--which ended on Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning--averaged 15.2 million viewers on Fox, Fox Deportes, Univision, and streaming, making it the most watched Fall Classic game in five years. (NBC News...

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