NC mom’s surprise cruise vacation for family ruined after staff wrongly said teen son could not board: report
Royal screwing. Driving eight hours to surprise her family on a cruise vacation, North Carolina mother was stranded in a Florida port after her special needs teenage son was kicked out in what she later admitted to being human error. After more than a year of planning, Shannon Nutting's dream vacation on the Royal Caribbean […]
Historian Warns If AP Doesn’t Keep Wrongly Calling Body Of Water Gulf Of Mexico, US May Slide Into Authoritarianism
Historian Heather Cox Richardson said on Thursday's podcast to journalist Katie Courick that if the Associated Press (AP) mentions the US Gulf by a new name, it would be an important step towards authoritarianism. I warned that it could be possible. President Donald Trump's administration first banned the Associated Press from its oval office on […]
Interior Department overpaid workers by up to $400K after they wrongly claimed to be in DC: watchdog
The Interior Department falsely claimed that the feeding workers were based in the Washington, D.C., area, when in fact they were scattered across the United States, overpaying taxpayers up to $400,000 for dozens of employees. paid. A report by the department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that at least 48 government employees were working […]
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 […]