NYPD wrongly stuck Canada liaison with $740K tax bill: suit
A former New York City police detective claims he was unfairly charged $740,000 in taxes by Canada because his boss didn't tell him he owed taxes while he was overseas, according to a new lawsuit. . In 2011, Det. Michael Catlin served with honor in the NYPD Toronto Division's International Liaison Program, assisting local law […]
White House press secretary wrongly claims majority support President Biden’s pardon of Hunter
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced immediate backlash online after the number of Americans said to have approved President Biden's sweeping pardon for her son, which nearly doubled. President Biden announced a sweeping pardon on Sunday after Hunter Biden repeatedly said he would not pardon him. The eldest son was convicted in two separate […]
NYT has yet to issue correction for wrongly claiming Trump ‘falsely’ accused FEMA of avoiding supporters’ homes
A New York Times fact check that claimed Donald Trump lied that FEMA deliberately ignored the homes of supporters devastated by the storm has been debunked — but who knows? Probably not. Even though disaster officials revealed last week that Trump was right all along, the Paper of Record has yet to publish a correction. […]
Baby Reindeer was wrongly billed by Netflix as a ‘true story’, judge finds | Baby Reindeer
A US judge has ruled that a woman accused of stalking 'Baby Reindeer' author Richard Gadd can sue Netflix for defamation. It said the program was falsely promoted as a “true story” despite “making no effort” to fact-check Mr Gadd's story. Or you could pass off Harvey as Martha's inspiration. Fiona Harvey, the woman on […]
Why is America so slow to exonerate the wrongly convicted?
As the old saying goes, the wheels of justice turn slowly but with great precision, but as the civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Chavis told me nearly 50 years ago, “the wheels seldom turn in the opposite direction.” At the time, I was covering Chavis' post-conviction trial for The New York Times. Wilmington TenChavis's criminal […]
Biden Admits Inflation Reduction Act Was Wrongly Named
President Joe Biden acknowledged Thursday that the $700 billion Inflation-Breaking Act, which does not curb inflation but instead allocates $369 billion for green energy projects, was misspelled. Biden's remarks came at an event in Westby, Wisconsin, where he was touting his Bidennomics investments. He called the Beat Inflation Act “the most important climate change legislation […]
Facebook admits it wrongly censored iconic photo of bleeding Trump
Facebook has acknowledged that it mistakenly censored an iconic image of former President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the aftermath of the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. A post on Republican presidential candidate Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site by a user using the handle “End Wokeness,” which showed him with his fist […]
Man gets $300K from settlement after being wrongly accused of theft, cops change facial recognition technology
of City of Detroit The city will pay $300,000 to a man who was wrongfully accused of shoplifting, and as part of the settlement, the city will also change how police use facial recognition technology to identify suspects. Robert Williams’ driver’s license photo was incorrectly determined to be a likely match for a man seen […]
NYSE says technical issue fixed, after Berkshare Hathaway wrongly falls 99% – NBC News
Normal trading resumed late Monday morning after the New York Stock Exchange said technical issues had caused wild swings in the prices of some stocks, including those held by Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway. Shortly after 11 a.m. ET, the New York Stock Exchange said the issue affected its main electronic stock-releasing website, but that trading […]
Varney: AG Letitia James wrongly used her office #shorts
‘Varney & Co.’ host Stuart Varney argues New York’s justice system has become a ‘politicized joke.’ #foxbusiness #shorts … source