More than a month after voting by mail in the presidential election, South Los Angeles resident Taylor Johnson learned that his vote had not been counted because election workers had taken issue with the way he signed his name on the ballot envelope. The elections office told Johnson that his ballot signature didn’t match another […]
You might have heard of Lise Meitner. A native of Austria, she was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. She also helped discover nuclear fission. Yet the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for that accomplishment went solely to her longtime collaborator, Otto Hahn. Meitner battled misogyny and sexism at
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Bob Iger wants out of the culture wars. Walt Disney Co. and its chief executive have made a sharp pivot since doubling down on diversity and inclusion efforts in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis four and a half years ago. At the time, Disney’s top executives, including then-Chairman Iger, vowed in a
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President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav arrives for the world premiere of “The Flash” at Ovation Hollywood in Hollywood, California, on June 12, 2023. Michael Tran | Afp | Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday announced a restructuring plan to segment its business into linear and streaming units in a move
View from behind a Comcast truck parked on a residential street in Lafayette, California, on Sept. 28, 2021. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson told investors on Monday that the company expects to lose more than 100,000 broadband subscribers during the fourth quarter as the market remains “competitively
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SportsCenter at ESPN Headquarters. The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty Images ESPN is coming to Disney+. Now, the sports network wants to make sure Disney+ users come to ESPN. Walt Disney debuted a dedicated ESPN tile Wednesday on Disney+ for people who subscribe to ESPN+, its sports streaming platform, to watch programming
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Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Comcast shares posted modest gains Wednesday after the company announced its plan to spin off all of NBCUniversal’s cable networks, except Bravo, into a separate publicly traded entity. Investors’ initial shrug at the proposed transaction underscores the uncertainty of the maneuver. The hope for Comcast is that by
