A former producer for CNN’s Jake Tapper is reportedly being investigated over “serious allegations” of child sexual abuse, Fox News reported, citing police. He is the second CNN employee to face similar charges this month. A statement by Virginia’s Fairfax County Police Department on Wednesday, which was cited by Fox …
Read More »007 producer spills beans on whether future James Bond will be ‘he’ or ‘she’
Speaking on the Girls On Film podcast, Barbara Broccoli, who controls the 007 franchise, touched on the search for an actor who would replace Daniel Craig as James Bond, and confirmed that it would certainly not be a female actress. The producer argued that it would be wrong to make …
Read More »CNN producer charged with shocking underage sex crimes
John Griffin, 44, worked alongside disgraced CNN host Chris Cuomo on ‘New Day’, and most recently served as producer for John Avlon, the liberal network’s senior political analyst. Outside of work, however, the Connecticut man’s interests were dark and disturbing, and Griffin was arrested on Friday and charged with three …
Read More »Two Chinese companies to merge & form world’s 3rd largest steel producer
Under a merger agreement signed on August 20, Ben Gang, currently owned by the Liaoning Provincial Property Management Committee, will donate 51% of the company’s shares to Ansteel, becoming its subsidiary, China’s news agency Xinhua reports. Both companies view the merger as a way of reorganizing and boosting industrial capabilities. …
Read More »Russia is world’s 2nd biggest oil producer after US this year – Rosstat
According to Rosstat data, Russia produced an average of 10.36 million barrels of oil daily in January-May 2021, while the average US output was 11.10 million barrels a day, making it the largest oil producer in the reporting period. Saudi Arabia came in third, with an average of 8.27 million …
Read More »Disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein handed over for extradition to face sex-crime charges in California
Weinstein, 69, was handed over to authorities for transport to California from New York on Tuesday morning, according to New York state corrections officials. The former studio boss had been incarcerated at a prison near Buffalo, in upstate New York, since being sentenced in March 2020 to 23 years behind …
Read More »Extradition of former Hollywood producer Weinstein to face rape, sexual assault charges in LA approved by New York judge
In March 2020, the film producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault in a case that sparked the #MeToo movement. Soon after sentencing, the Los Angeles district attorney’s office launched efforts to extradite Weinstein to California to face …
Read More »‘Peace would be TERRIBLE for your company’: Code Pink confronts CEO of arms producer General Dynamics over billions in war profits
During an annual shareholder conference held earlier this week in Reston, Virginia, Benjamin tore into the firm for its prolific and highly profitable weapons sales to countries around the world, arguing that its bottom line depends on war and bloodshed. “If you have a model where you need global conflict, …
Read More »Russia remains world’s second-largest oil producer for 10 months in a row – report
Data shows that the United States was the top oil-producing country in the world and Saudi Arabia was in third place. Russia held the status of the world’s second-largest oil producer for the 10th month in a row, dropping to the third spot for only one month, in April 2020. …
Read More »World’s biggest vaccine producer blames Biden’s embargo on crucial raw materials for crippling production of Covid-19 jabs
In a tweet tagging Biden’s official Twitter handle on Friday, SII Chief Executive Adar Poonawalla said, “If we are to truly unite in beating this virus, on behalf of the vaccine industry outside the US, I humbly request you to lift the embargo of raw material exports out of the …
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